new sub-hobby...

[Bob Bruninga]

Sounds like APRS.
Coordination is simple on 144.39 anywhere in the north american continet.
Any two people anywhere within range of APRS can exchange packets on
144.39 worldwide.  It would be perfect...
bob

On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Maitland Bottoms wrote:

> Something to talk up on this list, and put out in the newsletter...
>
> Point-to-point ad-hoc wireless networking. To and from the larger
> hamfests.
>
> 1) Get hams to carpool to hamfests. environmentally sound, traffic
>    congestion reducing, and lets someone other than the driver handle
>    the radios, laptops, and antennas.
>
> 2) coordinate via standard 2m or 440 MHz NBFM radios, so that the
>    vehicles in which two or more groups of hams are travelling in can
>    be brought in closer proximity.
>
> 3) establish 802.11 links between vehicles. Exchange e-QSLs, try
>    full-duplex audio and video communications.
>
> Something to do on the way to and from Dayton this year.
>
> Things to talk about before then: protocols for pre-arranged ad-hoc
> network settings, protocols for e-QSL exchange.
>
> As much fun as war-driving is, it would be really neat if a technique
> caught on where, when two war-driving platforms get near each other,
> they can exchange their found access point logs.
>
> -Maitland
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de WB4APR@amsat.org, Bob

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