WINMOR Phase 2: Demonstration to Deployment

摘要

In September 2008 I introduced WINMOR (WINlink Message Over Radio) at the ARRL/TAPR DCC in Chicago [1]. Success with that preliminary test version of WINMOR sparked interest in the protocol and the creation of an active Yahoo WINMOR group. This in turn accelerated the development of client software, RMS Express, needed for on-air beta testing. This paper addresses the challenges of completing the development and deploying viable client and server software supporting WINMOR. The advanced layered Viterbi Trellis Code Modulation and Reed-Solomon FEC used in WINMOR are also summarized. A novel Virtual TNC model that implements the protocol is described along with some of the applications that support WINMOR based on this Virtual TNC.