TAPR

TAPR is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization of amateur radio ("ham") operators who are interested in advancing the state of the radio art. The initials stand for "Tucson Amateur Packet Radio" but today the organization is much broader than that: we long ago became an international organization, and while we still support packet radio our areas of interest have expanded to include software defined radio, advanced digital modulation methods, and precise time and frequency measurement... TAPR is a community that provides leadership and resources to radio amateurs for the purpose of advancing the radio art... If you have used a packet radio TNC, then you are already a part of TAPR history. The TNC (Terminal Node Controller) project grew from a discussion in October of 1981 at a meeting of the Tucson Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society. A week later, six of the attendees gathered and discussed the feasibility of developing a Terminal Node Controller that would be complete and available..

Primary location: Wolcott United States