18 points | by tejtm 4 days ago ago
2 comments
Thanks for the second chance on this HN!
This is important (to me) because the proprietary windows software "VARA" has a de facto death grip on basic emergency amateur radio digital communication.
A clean room open source rust implementation called xara was just shut down
https://github.com/x0rro/xara
forks could happen, but if any get traction, they will most likely suffer the same fate.
So wide spread adoption of a complete alternative such as this HERMES and Mercury project seem the best choice.
This project the ARDC is funding targets needs in third world communities.
But please keep in mind we are all one natural disaster away from needing it as well.
Now ARDC funded
Thanks for the second chance on this HN!
This is important (to me) because the proprietary windows software "VARA" has a de facto death grip on basic emergency amateur radio digital communication.
A clean room open source rust implementation called xara was just shut down
https://github.com/x0rro/xara
forks could happen, but if any get traction, they will most likely suffer the same fate.
So wide spread adoption of a complete alternative such as this HERMES and Mercury project seem the best choice.
This project the ARDC is funding targets needs in third world communities.
But please keep in mind we are all one natural disaster away from needing it as well.
Now ARDC funded