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Re:ARRL Hails FCC Action to Remove Symbol Rate Restrictions by edrxty on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @08:11PM (#38272128)
This is also the absolute worst nightmare of all the ragchew/gout-net types. The thing is [opens SDR waterfall] 70cm/2m is a wall of blue occasionally punctuated by a lonely repeater kerchunk so I'm not sure what's driving the fear.

In fact, the most reliable traffic is the one narrow APRS frequency full of generally indecipherable digital packets from all the proprietary over-landing rigs.

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Re:ARRL Hails FCC Action to Remove Symbol Rate Restrictions by wcfields on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @08:26PM (#38272236)
My inspiration has been this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMZ8mawceuk (Building a Linux Packet Node) and inspired me to buy a used Kenwood TM-D700 to operate a packet node station.

I think something like that coupled with something like https://hamwan.org/ to route high-bandwidth traffic could be a great combo, almost like an adaptive bandwidth.

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