[Xastir] Change to RELAY digipeat function

[Dalen Kruse]

On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 10:27 -0700, Jeff Barlow wrote:
> Gerry Creager N5JXS <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>  wrote:
> 
> >If I thought we could get the top 5-6 folks in APRS with intersections 
> >in RF and networking in the same room, uninterrupted, for 2 days, I 
> >think we'd have a plan of action and assignments!
> 
> I guess I'm not sure just who you're thinking of, but it seems to
> me like it would just degrade into a shouting match pretty
> quickly. As soon as someone spoke the truth: 'APRS is broken',
> those with fragile egos would go into defensive mode and it's all
> downhill from there.
> 
> I'm an old retired networking guy. I worked on boxes that sat on
> ARPAnet. I probably have a better handle on this stuff than most.
> It's clear to me that Bob has some pretty twisted ideas about
> networking. While ignorance is no sin, the combination of
> ignorance and an unwillingness to admit mistakes is rather
> intractable.
> 
> I think what's needed here is something like the response of the
> free software folks to Microsoft et all. You just turn your back
> on them and start over in a new direction.
> 

Scott Miller (N1VG) has been developing the OpenTRAC protocol.  While
it's still a work in progress, this may be what we could concentrate on.
I know there's some people on this list who frequent the OpenTracker
Yahoo group, so some are familiar.  Scott just mentioned on that group
recently that he's "specifically avoided the subject of network
routing."  He's hoping someone with more experience in this will help
him out on it.  I'm not sure if Scott subscribes to this list.  Anyway,
check out www.opentrac.org for the protocol and www.n1vg.net/opentracker
for the hardware he's building that supports the OpenTRAC protocol (and
APRS).


> Alas, my sense of things is that many hams tend to be
> traditionalists who resist change. 

Yet you hear all too often hams complaining about how the hobby is
dying.

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Dalen Kruse <dalen.kruse at blacklion.org>
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