Packet is alive and well here in Maine, and we're linked into New Hampshire and Canada via Houlton, but you're right: it's a very niche market. It's primarily EMAs and hospitals linked with club ECTs and ARES groups. Most of the folks around me in Southern Maine that are tinkering with it here seem to be retired folks with the time to constantly tweak audio levels and mail forwarding rules. I'm one of a few exceptions, age-wise, at 41 years old. However, I'm in it for the emcomm as well.
For giggles, I set up a security level for known hams on my board, and
set up telnet links in the Doors menu to the nodes I'm a sysop for:
WS1EC at the Cumberland County EMA, and W1YCA at the York County EMA;
and their respective emergency communications teams (ham clubs). I'd
love to have a radio link into my BBS, but sadly it'd just be me, and it def needs 9600 to be barely tolerable and still color ANSI.
On 03-14-21 11:25, Roen wrote to SetiOp <=-
Boy, I wish I had linked up fsxNet sooner, I missed a great
conversation! I spent all evening last night reading this thread. All great, valid points.
Other than APRS, there's not a
lot of packet around here that I know of
On 03-18-21 07:47, Nkeck72 wrote to Vk3jed <=-
In article <60531E2D.149.fsx_ham@finalzone.ddns.net>
"Vk3jed" <vk3jed@21:1/109> writes:
Other than APRS, there's not a
lot of packet around here that I know of
I'm sort of in the same situation, we have APRS and WinLink on VHF, but not much else in the way of packet.
Having an RF BBS sounds like it would be awesome, though.
Boy, I wish I had linked up fsxNet sooner, I missed a great
conversation! I spent all evening last night reading this thread. All
Packet is alive and well here in Maine, and we're linked into New
For giggles, I set up a security level for known hams on my board, and
set up telnet links in the Doors menu to the nodes I'm a sysop for:
so I can start setting something up. I am hoping to link into Ohio since I am only 5 minutes from Lake Erie.I'm certain they'd love to have a Canadian on their network. We used to get a thrill seeing DX contacts crawling our nodes from New Brunswick, and they loved
Thats pretty cool. I have a radio telescope in my back yard so I wrote a door to access statistics and get the status of it. At one point I had it soA radio telescope? Cool! Most I've done with space is download SSTV from the ISS and images from NOAA, and the one contact via the ISS repeater.
Is AMPRNet still a thing? I thought I had seen somewhere that it was
kind of going out.
Hello everyone! I am curious if anyone has packet radio being used in their local area for something other than APRS? Packet has pretty much disappeared here in Ontario, Canada, although APRS is still active. I appreciate your time.
On 05-03-21 04:50, tenser wrote to mobbyg <=-
AMPRNet is still very much a thing, but it's a massively
underutilized resource and more people should get allocations.
Here in east Tennessee we have a few Winlink nodes as well as quite a
few APRS digipeaters and even a couple weather stations. We don't have
any AX.25 nodes but I plan to change that here in the near future. :P
underutilized resource and more people should get allocations.
On 05-05-21 20:04, SetiOp wrote to Vk3jed <=-
underutilized resource and more people should get allocations.
I haven't had any luck reaching any coordinators here in Ontario. I
used to have an allocation years ago but I lost it at some point. I'll have to try harder I guess. For now I am going to focus on getting the
RF running here.
Bummer. If you can't raise your coordinator, it's work asking on the 44net mailing list.underutilized resource and more people should get allocations.I haven't had any luck reaching any coordinators here in Ontario. I
On 05-08-21 17:02, SetiOp wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Bummer. If you can't raise your coordinator, it's work asking on the 44net mailing list.underutilized resource and more people should get allocations.I haven't had any luck reaching any coordinators here in Ontario. I
Yeah I admit I haven't tried that, I'll have to do that. I am sure
there is some coordinator looking after the block who can help on the list. I'll try that.
On 06-13-21 22:30, Phigan wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Re: Re: Packet Radio
By: Vk3jed to Nkeck72 on Fri Mar 19 2021 05:01 pm
Do you or anyone know what software to use to connect a regular DOS BBS
up on packet radio with a KISS TNC? or would you need a fancier TNC?
Is anyone doing packet anymore? I mean K2K and BBS/Nodes not so much the APRS or WINLINK flavor of the mode. I have a PK232 in the box still and
am really trying to justify setting up the thing and one of my old 2m radios. I have family with some prime real estate for a node that would really give some coverage too. It would be nice to have a BBS that was a sort of IGATE that could function both radio and TELNET too. 1200bps is pretty painful though...
Is anyone doing packet anymore? I mean K2K and BBS/Nodes not so much the APRS or WINLINK flavor of the mode. I have a PK232 in the box still and
I'm out in Elmira so southern tier.
just testing my pakratt and think HF is my lot!
Is there anything similar to store and forward type communications going on that I just haven't heard about? Any new sound card modes out there?
It feels like the hobby has stagnated to a degree as the internet took over.
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