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wb2osz / direwolf

Dire Wolf is a software "soundcard" AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder. It can be used stand-alone to observe APRS traffic, as a tracker, digipeater, APRStt gateway, or Internet Gateway (IGate). For more information, look at the bottom 1/4 of this page and in https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/blob/dev/doc/README.md
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DireWOlf virtual TNC and ARDOP #63

Closed sp2ong closed 7 years ago

sp2ong commented 8 years ago

Hi, It will be fine that DireWolf will be have support new hamradio protocol ARDOP http://www.winlink.org/content/ardop_overview I know that exist ARDOP source by G8BPQ which implement in BPQ32 software https://github.com/g8bpq/LinBPQ/blob/master/ARDOP.c

or use ARDOP version C by G8BPQ https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31910649/ARDOPC.txt

It maybe will easy or not :-) add ARDOP use via Sound card and with RMS Express or other Winlink application like PAT Wilnik client: https://github.com/la5nta/pat

73 Waldek SP2ONG

dranch commented 8 years ago

Just my $0.02 but Direwolf is an AX.25 TNC and APRS client/gateway. ARDOP has no relation to packet or AX.25 and Ithink of it much more along the lines of Pactor. As you mentioned, there is a Linux version of ARDOP now and the BPQ BBS software has API support for it which is a version of BPQ's SCS Pactor TNC support. Other than that, as you mentioned, Pat does support ARDOP (though an older version). Once ARDOP code development settles down, I have little doubt PAT will catch up support it.

wb2osz commented 7 years ago

After looking over all the ARDOP documentation, I have pretty much the same reaction as dranch. Dire Wolf is a software replacement for a traditional AX.25 Terminal Node Controller (TNC) box. It has simple modems and knowledge of the AX.25 protocol and APRS.
ARDOP is an entirely different animal. From what I see, it is used to set up a reliable communication with one other station at a time. So it is good for conversations or moving large amounts of data like AX.25 connected mode. BBS or e-mail applications could use either one to move data reliably between two points. I didn't notice any broadcast to anyone mode that would allow APRS to be layered on top of it. In summary, I really don't see how they would fit together.