[OZAPRS] 9600 baud

[Ray Wells]

Those of us who have been in packet (let's not forget that aprs is ax25 
packet) for years will well recall attempts to encourage higher speed 
data exchanges. Many BBS's installed higher speed ports but these were 
largely ignored in favour of plug & play 1200bps. Even when there was an 
attempt to get the now defunct Rose backbone to link at 4k8, it largely 
fell in a heap.

Whilst aprs would benefit from higher speeds I believe that any attempt 
to move to 1k2 will be a disaster.

Ray vk2tv

On 12/01/11 18:52, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Howard Small wrote:
>
>> Just wondering why we use 1200 baud for APRS and not 9600? I must say
>> that doing some tests with 9600 between my D700, D7, D72 and VX-8R has
>> not shown it to be reliable but wonder if that is general or just
>> something specific to some of the equipment...
> Packet radio (remember that?) has been stuck on 1200 like a terrified
> limpet for years.  Europe, at the time, had megabit backbones.
>
> -- Dave
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