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| ====== Packet Radio in the 2020s ====== | ====== Packet Radio in the 2020s ====== |
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| | //This write-up is from the early part of the project, and as such may not be fully up to date.// |
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| Packet radio is a means of "networking" together amateur radio stations using inexpensive and potentially home-built equipment and open source software. Specialised applications can then operate over that network - commonly including keyboard-to-keyboard chat, and BBS including routing mail between remote BBSs and to/from the internet. Surfing from node to node is also possible - connecting from your own station through some arbitrary path of nodes to some other node far outside your own radio range, then doing keyboard to keyboard chat ("having a QSO"), is entirely possible, where a network of nodes exists. The nodes do not have to be pre-configured to allow connections from specific neighbours - it can be quite dynamic. | Packet radio is a means of "networking" together amateur radio stations using inexpensive and potentially home-built equipment and open source software. Specialised applications can then operate over that network - commonly including keyboard-to-keyboard chat, and BBS including routing mail between remote BBSs and to/from the internet. Surfing from node to node is also possible - connecting from your own station through some arbitrary path of nodes to some other node far outside your own radio range, then doing keyboard to keyboard chat ("having a QSO"), is entirely possible, where a network of nodes exists. The nodes do not have to be pre-configured to allow connections from specific neighbours - it can be quite dynamic. |
