Subj : packet radio
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Belly
Date : Sat Jul 09 2005 03:13 pm

  Re: packet radio
  By: Angus Mcleod to Spaceman Spiff on Sat Jul 09 2005 01:16 pm

 > Perhaps unlicensed BBS users can be allowed to use the TNC in some sort of 
 > SWL mode?  They could 'read the mail' so to speak, by monitoring the 
 > traffic bertween hams using the band.  The trouble is, there are never any 
 > hams using the band.  You start monitoring tacket traffic and you'll be 
 > real lucky to actually find any trffic from a HUMAN sitting at his 
 > keyboard...

I remember the good ol' days where you actually had a couple of
keyboard-to-keyboard QSOs daily.  We would often have UI conversations
involving 5-10 hams spread over a few hundred miles, relayed through several
digis.  I eventually wrote a 8-user "chat room" type of app that I ran on my
TRS-80.  I never could get all of the bugs worked out, due to a combination of
limitations in the PK-232's multi-connection operation and my limited skills. 
That was back in the pre-KISS days.  KISS would have made it MUCH easier.

     o
    (O) 
   BeLLy


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