Thanks for the comments, Carter.
Hams being frugal is nothing new. The guys who invented PACTOR
were fugal hams, too. Their commerical stuff sells for a lot
more of those frugal dollars than their less expensive ham stuff.
Also, they came out with the IIe and the IIg, much lower priced
versions of the expensive multimodes II and IIpro. Yet, a monitor
only version would be significantly less. But, as was observed
with linked protocol (eg. even AMTOR) you must be in sync with
both stations to copy anything.
Thus, propagation would play more of an effect of whether you
could copy a digital conversation than hardware/software
combinations. Shades of one-way SSB propagation.
Phil Sussman
Clayton, Ohio
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Quoting "Carter, K8VT" <k8vt@ameritech.net>:
> psussman@pactor.com wrote:
>
> > HAL sure noticed that when they released CLOVER and remember G-TOR,
> > that 'enhanced knockoff' of PACTOR-1. So when SCS released PACTOR-2
> > they did NOT make the protocol freely available. After all their
> > PACTOR-1 reputation had been tarnished by 'cheap knockoffs' of their
> > freely released protocol. Can you blame them?
> >
> > Comments??
>
> Intellectually, no, I can't blame them and intellectually do support
> them. However, from an *economic* point of view, I recall the PACTOR-2
> modems running around $1000 (!), give or take. As an *amateur*
> communicator, I didn't foresee $1000 of improvement over PACTOR/G-Tor
> and therefore chose to pass.
>
> Hams being (frugal) hams, there seems to be plenty of great low or no
> cost software available to the ham community; e.g., PSK, MFSK,
> Hellschreiber, MMTY, the W1 (?) meteor scatter software, etc, etc.
>
> I don't know the answer, but it would seem that the inventor of a better
> mousetrap would be better off trying to market their invention to
> commercial interests rather than the frugal ham community... ;-)
>
> 73,
> Carter K8VT
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