Hi gents,

Is there anybody use Packet Radio nowadays?

Andrei Kopanchuk
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Is there anybody use Packet Radio nowadays?

This is a great question ... I have an alinco and aKantronics KPC3+ up on a Winlink Packet Radio System for 8 years. Received all by a dozen
messages passing and a few of them were mine testing. I pulled the equipment and shut that down last year. So, now when needed we use a messaging thing called NBEAMS through FLDigi and MT63-2kl

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Hi Argos,

06 Sep 19, Argos wrote to Andrei Kopanchuk:

Is there anybody use Packet Radio nowadays?

This is a great question ... I have an alinco and aKantronics KPC3+ up
on a Winlink Packet Radio System for 8 years. Received all by a dozen messages passing and a few of them were mine testing. I pulled the equipment and shut that down last year. So, now when needed we use a messaging thing called NBEAMS through FLDigi and MT63-2kl

Thanks for answer. Yes, I have been talking with guys from Florida they talked about lack of VHF activity over there. They use Packet Radio on HF (Network105,
14105 KHz LSB), but condition is quite poor now.


Andrei Kopanchuk
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Re: Packet Radio
By: Andrei Kopanchuk to All on Fri Sep 06 2019 10:25:50

Hi gents,

Is there anybody use Packet Radio nowadays?

Andrei Kopanchuk
Andrei Kopanchuk
Andrei Kopanchuk

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Is there anybody use Packet Radio nowadays?

I use Packet Via Telnet to a BBS in Penfield, New York. It offers both
RF and telnet access...the latter for those who are too far away, or
don't have a packet node in their area, or packet gear in their shack.

They have a weekly net every Monday at 8pm Eastern Time.

Daryl


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Hi Daryl,

14 Jan 20, Daryl Stout wrote to CHARLES P. ADKINS:

Is there anybody use Packet Radio nowadays?

I use Packet Via Telnet to a BBS in Penfield, New York. It offers
both RF and telnet access...the latter for those who are too far away,
or don't have a packet node in their area, or packet gear in their
shack.

They have a weekly net every Monday at 8pm Eastern Time.

I am familiar with Bob, NS2B from Penfiel, he runs BBS, CHAT and NODE.

Every sunday evening net (9-10 pm), stations from IN, MI, WI.


Andrei Kopanchuk
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Charles P. Adkins wrote to Andrei Kopanchuk <=-

Re: Packet Radio
By: Andrei Kopanchuk to All on Fri Sep 06 2019 10:25:50

Hi gents,

Is there anybody use Packet Radio nowadays?

Yes. I actually run a packet BBS in central California



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Daryl Stout wrote to CHARLES P. ADKINS <=-

@MSGID: <5E1EC762.1950.fidoamateurr@battlestarbbs.dyndns.org>
@REPLY: <5E1D60E8.1948.fidoamateurr@battlestarbbs.dyndns.org>
@TZ: 4168

Is there anybody use Packet Radio nowadays?

I use Packet Via Telnet to a BBS in Penfield, New York. It offers
both RF and telnet access...the latter for those who are too far away,
or don't have a packet node in their area, or packet gear in their
shack.

They have a weekly net every Monday at 8pm Eastern Time.

Daryl

I see, yeah, the Days of the BBS's on packet are gone. Sad too, the network was awesome.
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Ray Quinn wrote to Charles P. Adkins <=-

@MSGID: <5E338BEE.1954.fidoamateurr@battlestarbbs.dyndns.org>
@REPLY: <5E1D60E8.1948.fidoamateurr@battlestarbbs.dyndns.org>
@TZ: 41e0

Charles P. Adkins wrote to Andrei Kopanchuk <=-

Re: Packet Radio
By: Andrei Kopanchuk to All on Fri Sep 06 2019 10:25:50

Hi gents,

Is there anybody use Packet Radio nowadays?

Yes. I actually run a packet BBS in central California

I hear ya, the days of the international packet network are gone.

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Hi, Andrei...

I am familiar with Bob, NS2B from Penfiel, he runs BBS, CHAT and NODE.

Every sunday evening net (9-10 pm), stations from IN, MI, WI.

I have a file on my BBS, and in my D-Rats Folder called The PCL
Net.PDF with info on the net, for those who are interested. I'm also the "scribe" for the net.

When the BBS was at its original home, the now former N0KFQ BBS in
Branson, Missouri (the Sysop, N0KFQ, and his XYL, KB0WSA, who was NCS,
are both SK's now), one night, there was what I call "The E.D. Net". The Readers Digest version of this (we're all typing at our keyboards) is as follows:

1) Discussion of my new vanity call at that time (WX1DER), and vanity
callsigns in general. I was originally N5VLZ, holding that call for 18
years, then changed to AE5WX. Two and a half years later, I changed to
WX1DER, then nearly a year ago (after getting burned out on weather,
which got me into ham radio), I changed it to WX4QZ, which is a keeper.

2) One ham, named Ed, KI0HQ, wanted K0ED, but it was taken by a ham in California. He typed "I'm married, and E.D. is not an issue".

3) Another ham, Roger, KB0SON, thought E.D. stood for "electronic
doofus" (hi hi). Now, I can relate to that, as electronics was never my
forte'. I can tell you the colors on a resistor (thanks to Violet (hi
hi)), a battery on a schematic diagram, and that not even an amp of
electricity will kill you...but that's about it.

4) It got to K.O., N0KFQ, and all he typed was "I'm curious as to how Ed
is going to explain E.D. to Roger". At this point, I'm roaring in
laughter.

5) Billie, KB0WSA, turned it back to Ed, who typed to Billie "Do you
know Morse Code??" She typed "Yes, and I know a lot of other things as
well"!! (hi hi). I was really busting a gut now, practically peeing on
myself!! As Ed typed "erectile dysfunction" (common for males as they
get older), I'll bet Roger was red faced!!

A year after Billie's death, K.O. was still alive (he died 2 years
after Billie did), and he was on a net that night. He typed "it was so refreshing to hear about that again...and it happened EXACTLY the way
Daryl told it"!! (hi hi).

Which proves "With friends like us, you don't need any enemies" (hi
hi).

Daryl, WX4QZ


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