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Path: watlion!pgtrubey
From: pgtrubey@watlion.UUCP (Phil Trubey)
Newsgroups: mod.telecom
Subject: Public digital radio network.
Message-ID: <7888@watlion.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 87 03:17:18 GMT
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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I was just reading about a proposal put forward by a Donald Stoner
in 1985 to the FCC suggesting the allocation of a 2Mhz frequency
band in the radio spectrum to be used as a public packet radio network.
(The article describing it was posted in Mod.mag.fidonet).

Basically the proposal involved the use of receiver/transmitters
operating at some specific frequency.  Incoming signals would be
decoded, and if not destined for the node, the packet would be 
retransmitted ... hopefully reaching neighbours who didn't get
the original transmission.  Although he didn't mention protocals
that much, presumably retransmitted packets would contain a hop count
so that packets being shuttled back and forth between two neighbours
would eventually be thrown out.   

Hmmm, transmission interference sounds like a big problem...
(token passing in a radio packet network???)

Anyways...
Has anyone heard what the fate of this petition was?  Has anyone heard
of any other proposals that would use radio as the medium for a 
public packet network?

Thanks for any info.
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Phil Trubey      pgtrubey@watlion