SuperPacket: Zero Retries 0041 - 2022-04-08 - The New Role of Amateur Radio in Emergency Communications

April 08, 2022

In this issue:

Request To Send
The New Role of Amateur Radio in Emergency Communications (Abstract)
Iridium Next Satellite System - Highly Capable Voice, Data, and Push To Talk “Radio”
Starlink Satellite System - Broadband Internet Access
FirstNET - Briefly
Information Technology Disaster Resource Center (ITDRC) - Tech Task Force
But… That’s Not Amateur Radio
What Would Help Achieve Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network (AREDN)?
Feedback Loop
Join the Fun on Amateur Radio
Closing The Channel

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Posted by Steve Stroh on April 08, 2022 at 03:30 PM in Zero Retries Newsletter | Permalink

About Steve Stroh N8GNJ
Truth be told, to my fellow Amateur Radio Operators, Amateur Packet Radio was my first love. It combined three of my technological passions - radio communications, computers, and data communications. When I moved to the Seattle area in 1987, I fell in with a bad crowd which over the decades has become known as the "WETNET Mafia". That group built a number of Amateur Radio data repeaters (full regeneration) operating at 9600 bps, and operated TCP/IP (concurrent with the opening of the Internet to "civilians").
I've sporadically written about Amateur Radio data communications over the years, including periods of writing for (and very briefly, editing) the TAPR Packet Status Register (PSR) newsletter, and a column in CQ Amateur Radio magazine.
As of 2020, I'm semi-retired and living in Bellingham, Washington and devoting much of my time to exploring Amateur Radio Data Communications.
I'm the Editor of Zero Retries Newsletter which discusses technological innovation in Amateur Radio.