APRS is 20 years old and still using 25 year old technology. What can we do different:
- Remove the scheme of hard coded paths and hops like WIDE1-1. Instead go to a purpose coded system or better yet - just eliminate it all together. Let the network nodes, which we used to call digipeaters, do it. They're better, smarter and cheaper.
- These network nodes will tell the clients how to address their packets. The system will be automatically configuring.
- Servers, and even clients, can record ALL the audio heard on the channel. It's a minimal amount of data by todays standards. A user on the web should be able to click on a callsign and packet and hear just how it sounds.
- Trackers (and even home stations) will take a web cam snapshot associated with every position transmission. These will be web uploaded when bandwidth allows. Possibly it would be a 360 degree panorama.
- No data will be directly injected into the IS infrastructure. Only what's heard on the RF. All stations gating from RF to IS will be keyed with a secure certificate that's created either locally or at trusted sources such as ARRL's LOTW.
- Stations may have an alternate frequency agile RF receiver such as one of the RT802 dongles. This will allow automatic Direction Finding of on the air signals when queried by local clients.
- much more to come
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