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To: Sam Citron who wrote (13546)	2/8/2006 11:21:45 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

I guess I'm in the same boat, Sam. I'd left hamdom in '61 in pursuit of whatever it is that hormones make boys do, and although I picked up CW again while working ship to shore for a while during night school, I never went back to the romance of the airwaves that I'd known earlier on. To this day those earlier chaotic experiences on the air as a Ham have served as a form of educational precursor for me in my way I look at all things Internet. I think it was about 1985 while on a consulting gig that I glanced at the magazine rack at a news stand and came across an issue of CQ Magazine, another once-popular Ham magazine. Prominently displayed on its cover was a photo of a Ham operator using a hand-held remote controller for a model aircraft, and beneath the photo there was an attention grabber reading something like, Hams Reach Agreement on new version of AX.25. AX.25 is the amateur adaptation of the ITU (originally-CCITT) X.25 packet protocol, once one of the dominant protocols for meshed data networks prior to IP.

To: Sam Citron who wrote (13546)	2/9/2006 12:52:37 AM
From: Peter Ecclesine	Respond to of 46821

Hi Sam, >>my 2 element quad antenna blew off the roof in a hurricane. << My 20 meter vertical dipole was hit by lightning, which came through the living room window and into the fireplace. >>How might a prudent investor place a reasonable bet on the diffusion of such a technology and how long a time horizon might be necessary for such an investment to bear fruit?<< Any radio that talks and listens and has memory can mesh, and most will. Any radio that talks IP is a candidate for mesh. Multi-radio is more likely to mesh, as it already has memory and ports. The diffusion of mesh takes place to overcome lack of Line-of-sight or lack of enough low frequency spectrum. A reasonable bet on mesh would be on applications which can use higher frequencies than ~2 GHz and some provider that has right-of-way in the neighborhood (location, location, location). Your milage may vary . . . petere