Exactly.

It is indeed an interesting project in many ways. Both the limitations and the advantages of radio connections are both challenging and inspiring at the same time. Different frequencies have different characteristics that affect the big picture in many ways. It is of course also possible to build full duplex connections, using two radios (or one radio with two oscillators) simultaneously. It would also be possible to do tricks such as combining CB, HAM and GSM frequencies etc. to achieve some possibly rather unexpected solutions.

The ideas and the basic design are there. What we need for this unusual project now is an unusually talented team of designers, developers and radio communications specialists.

Wonderful!


Interesting to hear this! We are also aware of the HAM Radio Coin and will be contacting the team at some point.


Thank you, we'll definitely take your ideas into account and under serious consideration. It seems your thoughts were and are pretty much aligned with what we've been putting together over here.


Like TCP, UDP too is part of the TCP/IP protocol family.


TCP is not very well suited for slow half duplex connections; there's lots of overhead in it.


UDP is much better for the task at hand, allowing us to design details such as ACK so that the protocol works as smoothly as possible even when the connection quality is very poor.

We did consider this, and decided to do a (pre) announcement even though all the information is not available yet. The reason for this decision can be seen below.


Yes, and since what we are doing differs a lot from most crypto coin projects out there, we need the skills of a very talented team before we can make definitive decisions about protocol details etc. To begin with, we'll need to use UDP instead of TCP, which means designing and implementing stuff such as protocol level ACKs that would normally be handled by the TCP stack.

All the details will be available when the final announce comes out.

The initial design is based on CB frequencies since they are mostly free to use everywhere. That does of course limit the distance between two stations to maximum of few hundred kilometers, which is not a problem since a P2P like echo/replicate protocol is used to tackle the distance problem.

When it comes to public TV/radio bands, our first goal is to implement a test network here in Finland. We are of course open to all proposals and would love to co-operate with new or existing TV/radio stations anywhere in the world.

Pleased do!

We'll be waiting for an e-mail from you with brief introduction and description of how exactly you would like to participate.

The address is cbc@vertaisvaluutta.fi

Vertaisvaluutta.fi is the Finnish central hub specializing in truly alternative coin design and services based on them.

We are hereby pre-announcing the development of CBC - a crypto coin specifically tailored to be used over CB and HAM radio networks.

CBC is designed to be useful under any circumstances, as long as there is enough electricity to run a CB or HAM radio station.

CBC is particularly useful in situations where the public infrastructure is failing or being controlled by the powers that be.

Radio based data transmissions have their own peculiarities which require very careful design to make the network work fluently even under such demanding conditions as only being able to establish half duplex connections with bandwidth as low as 600 - 1200 baud.

The CBC project is looking for talented and motivated developers, preferably with CB/HAM radio experience.

Please write to cbc@vertaisvaluutta.fi for more information.