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From: supp@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Steve Upp)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio.packet
Subject: General questions on packet
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 18:27:57 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 30 18:27:57 1985
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>This news group has been quiet lately.
>Or is something messed up again?
>
>Bill Retzner
>ihnp4!ihlpg!retzner

  Well maybe these questions can re-awaken a temporarily sleeping group.

I have a few questions regarding the current state of packet radio.  

	1)  Where can I get lots of information about it?  The only
	      documentation I have so far is the November CQ magazine.  

	2)  What is the maximum size of an AX.25 packet?

	3)  What plans are there for the next level of network software
	      to be add to the basic network layer of error checking 
	      packet communications that has been provided by AX.25.

	4)  Why has the FCC limited H.F. data transmission rates to 300
              baud?  I'm aware of the the limits on 2 meters and above.

	5)  I'm particularly intersted in H.F. (D.X.) packet radio.  How 
	      much success has been made on the long distance bands?  
	      I'm aware of the digirepeater capabilities of most of the 
	      packet boxes, however I'm thinking more of long distance 
	      point to point transmission because of the sacrificed speed
	      that digirepeating inherently requires.


Forgive my ignorance if I have made obvious blunders in the statements above
I've only recently started looking into packet radio.

From the few articles I've seen in CQ, this could be very interesting.  

One last thing-I'm not a licensed ham--------yet.


Thanks in advance


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Steve Upp
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