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Re: CQ

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On 1/7/21 11:22 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> Well, I still hang out here but I am not every active.

I've been subscribed to the newsgroup for quite a while.  But my message 
was the first one in my servers 2+ year history in the 
alt.ham-radio.packet and free.packet.radio newsgroups.

> To the best of my knowledge there is no AX.25 activity anywhere 
> around me. (Heck, I can't even find an active 2 meter repeater within 
> my range.)

I'm sort of surprised that there isn't a 2m repeater in range.

I'm also a little surprised that there isn't any APRS activity.

> I miss the days when I ran digipeaters on mountaintops and saw massive 
> amounts of traffic.

I know of digipeaters.  Though I'm evaluating Net/ROM vs ROSE for 
something I'm thinking about doing.

I think that Net/ROM might be nicer in that it has automatic routing vs 
ROSE which is completely manual routing.  Though I like the fact that 
ROSE is actually X.25 implemented on top of AX.25.  At least, as best as 
I can tell.

I'd sort of like a private X.25 cloud.

> I had a  lot of stuff I thought would be interesting with AX.25 but 
> it seems everyone else got bored of it and with the advent of the 
> Internet all but gave up.

*nod*

One of the reasons that I got into ham radio was the communications 
ability that didn't depend on the Internet.

> And don't get me started on the strong NIH syndrome that infected it. 
> At least around where I was.

I don't get the Not Invented Here mentality.  I've long been a fan of 
standing on the shoulders of giants.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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CQ Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-07 10:55 -0700
  Re: CQ Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2021-01-07 13:22 -0500
    Re: CQ Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-07 18:05 -0700
      Re: CQ Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2021-01-08 08:31 -0500
        Re: CQ Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-08 09:32 -0700
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