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Strike radio justification, reword and reorder other two

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Note that even though the data length field is a two-byte value, $L$ has a maximum value of $8191$. There are several motivating factors for this limitation.
\begin{enumerate}
\item CATS traffic shouldn't congest the channel for too long. The transfer is done at 9600bps, which means that ignoring the header, the transmission time for a max-size packet will take
\item Microcontrollers do not have much RAM. By choosing a maximum size of 8191 bytes, the protocol ensure that many low-cost microcontrollers can fully buffer any and all CATS packets.
\item Individual CATS traffic shouldn't congest the channel for overly long durations. Over-the-air transfers run at 9600bps, so ignoring the header, the transmission time for a max-size packet is
\begin{equation}
\frac{\mathrm{second}}{9600~\mathrm{bits}} \cdot \frac{8~\mathrm{bits}}{\mathrm{bytes}} \cdot 8191~\mathrm{bytes} \approx 6.8~\mathrm{seconds}
\end{equation}
\item Transmitters contemporary with the creation of this standard, such as the si4463, have a maximum payload length (packet excluding preamble, sync, and length field) of 8191 bytes. SOURCE XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
\item Microcontrollers do not have much RAM. By choosing a maximum size of 8191, we ensure that many low-cost microcontrollers can fully buffer any and all CATS packets, while keeping the header overhead reasonably low.
While a maximum of seven seconds is longer than the roughly two second long maximum APRS packet (256 bytes at 1200bps), it's also shorter than the widely accepted twelve seconds of FT8, while sending an order of magnitude more data than either.
\end{enumerate}
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