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- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 94 04:30:02 PST
- From: Advanced Amateur Radio Networking Group <tcp-group@ucsd.edu>
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- Subject: TCP-Group Digest V94 #30
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- TCP-Group Digest Wed, 2 Feb 94 Volume 94 : Issue 30
-
- Today's Topics:
- 1200-baud Repeaters (was: 9600 b/s frequencies and repeaters)
- 9600 b/s frequencies and repeaters (was: 9600b settings)
- Altera chip design software???
-
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- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 94 08:25:40 -0800
- From: jhays@hays.org (John D. Hays)
- Subject: 1200-baud Repeaters (was: 9600 b/s frequencies and repeaters)
- To: tcp-group@ucsd.edu
-
- John Ackermann asks:
-
- "1) In a moderately large metro area, does a 1200 baud 2M system get
-
- saturated quickly? We were concerened that we'd get great coverage, but
-
- that the thing would be 100% busy."
-
- In Puget Sound (Seattle, WA area) we have 2 (soon to be 3) 9600-baud UHF
- repeaters, which have relatively low utilization. [telnet seanvg.ampr.org or
- 44.24.108.1 from network 44] We also have a 9600 baud 2 meter repeater again
- with low-to-moderate utilization. We also have a 220-Mhz. 1200-baud repeater
- with moderate utilization. In vitually all cases traffic moves much more
- effeciently due to the removal of the hidden transmitter problem. In a well
- disciplined network (i.e. agreed upon values for WAIT timers and PERSISTANCE
- variables) 100% utilization should be a goal, not a restriction to
- implementation.
-
-
- One of the projects within our network (WETNET) is to have all repeaters
- interconnected either directly (via RF, or in the case of the UHF repeaters
- over a Fiber Optic link {many, many miles}) or through as Subnet gateway. Each
- of the repeaters is on its own subnet.
-
- "2) Has anyone successfully run both 1200 and 9600 on the same repeater
-
- system? I seem to recall something about this, but can't put my finger on
-
- the details. I hate the idea of investing in a 1200 baud-
- only system..."
-
- This has been done. It is not optimal --- I haven't looked at the
- relationships, frequency wise, between 9600-baud carriers and 1200-baud
- carriers, but it might make sense to have a 9600 baud tone or sync bytes
- transmitted when a 1200-baud signal is detected, and the same going the other
- direction. I have also thought that such a system should have a "digi-peat"
- capability between the two "LANS" ... Personally, I like the idea of one
- modulation scheme per frequency (pair).
-
- If 1200 baud-only is distasteful, why not think about 9600 baud-only?
-
- John - KD7UW
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- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 23:14:12 -0700
- From: bdale@gag.com (Bdale Garbee)
- Subject: 9600 b/s frequencies and repeaters (was: 9600b settings)
- To: tcp-group@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <2D4D62F3@lawdept.daytonoh.ncr.com> you wrote:
-
- : 1) In a moderately large metro area, does a 1200 baud 2M system get
- : saturated quickly? We were concerened that we'd get great coverage, but
- : that the thing would be 100% busy.
-
- What's wrong with that? :-)
-
- Seriously, regenerative repeaters at these data rates make a so-significant
- improvement in your ability to approach the theoretical throughput of a given
- channel due to the massive reduction in collisions, and so forth, that they
- are the right thing to do. Picking a data rate and modulation scheme is at
- least in my mind more a matter of doing what makes sense given what hardware
- the users have, than anything else. I bet that you, like me, have more folks
- nearby with 2m radios and 1200 baud modems than anything else. So, build a
- repeater if doing them a favor seems worthwhile.
-
- I've built both 1200 baud 2m and 9600 baud 70cm repeaters, and the results
- were the same, only the data rate was different. The 2m repeater is down at
- the moment getting a new RF deck, the 70cm machine is a Mitrek modified by
- WA0ZTI for data and full duplex operation, lashed to a TAPR 9600 baud modem
- with the bit-regen and clock options, further lashed to a Gracilis switch.
- Couldn't ask for better reliability or performance. I wrote up the 1200 baud
- repeater mods for DE-1200 modems and put them in the TAPR PSR a while back, I
- have written up the interface between the Gracilis P10 and TAPR 9600 modem, but
- haven't submitted it yet.
-
- : 2) Has anyone successfully run both 1200 and 9600 on the same repeater
- : system?
-
- Don't do it. The keys to success are good DCD's everywhere, and absolute
- fascism about channel access parameters (txdelay, p, slottime in particular).
- I don't know how to build a DCD that does 1200 and 9600 both, and further, I
- think the variability in time delays by having long slow 1200 baud frames
- mixed with short fast 9600 frames is likely to confuse the TCP rtt code under
- certain channel conditions. Don't do it.
-
- : I hate the idea of investing in a 1200 baud-only system...
-
- See above. Repeaters are about the cheapest effective throughput improvement
- you can buy at low data rates. Build lots of 'em, and don't get too hung up
- on the investment. If the usage on the 1200 baud machine drops to nil, rip
- out the modem and bit regen and install a TAPR modem, and call it an upgrade!
-
- 73 - Bdale, N3EUA
-
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-
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 18:47:27 +0000 (GMT)
- From: ehall@monmth-c3tmp.army.mil (Erik M. Hall)
- Subject: Altera chip design software???
- To: tcp-group@ucsd.edu
-
- I read something somewhere today that someone was giving away design
- software for one of the Altera EPLDs, and this list is the only place
- that I can think of where that might have been. Anyone have any information
- on this? I'd love to get a hold of it...
- -Erik
- --
- Erik M. Hall - N2NRP ehall@monmth-c3tmp.army.mil
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- Ft. Monmouth, NJ 07703 "Its all about soul..." -BJ
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