The IEEE magazine Spectrum reports on a new Amateur Radio digital mode, New Packet Radio (NPR)

It took six years, but the result is New Packet Radio (NPR), which I chose to publish under my call sign, F4HDK, as a nom de plume. It supports today’s de facto universal standard of communication—the Internet’s IPv4—and allows data to be transmitted at up to 500 kilobits per second on the popular 70-centimeter UHF ham radio band.

Admittedly, 500 kb/s is not as fast as the megabits per second that flow through amateur networks such as the European Hamnet or U.S. AREDN, which use gigahertz frequencies like those of Wi-Fi. But it is still faster than the 1.2 kb/s normally used by AX.25 links, and the 70-cm band permits long-distance links even when obstructions prevent line-of-sight transmissions.

Media article - https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/build-a-longdistance-data-network-using-ham-radio

NPR New Packet Radio - https://hackaday.io/project/164092-npr-new-packet-radio