[Xastir] A good time for APRS at 9600?

[David A. Ranch]

This has been on my mind for a while now so I thought I'd throw it out 
there for at least an interesting discussion..

Here in the Bay Area, the 144.390 APRS frequency can get pretty 
congested.  We fortunately also have a lot of great high level Digis and 
Igates that eventually gets things out.  I imagine other metro areas are 
similar.  With understanding all that, I'm curious why 9600 baud APRS 
isn't more popular?  I know that 9600 packet is a lot more sensitive to 
tuning and with the lack of local Igates, that didn'r work out all that 
well but for APRS in the day in age of D700/710s, D7A/D72s, FT350s, 
VX8G/Rs, etc. with factory tuned TNC to radio interfaces/levels, sure 
seems like it would work.

Maybe there's something I'm missing but could it be the right time for 
9600 baud APRS? 

73s
--David
KI6ZHD