Subj : Introduction ...
To   : AKAcastor
From : Ed Vance
Date : Tue Mar 05 2024 22:54:15

Part Two, Chris,

You asked about the length of a Packet Radio Session.
When I was logged in to the Packet Repeater BBS I would select the option to
have ALL new messages sent continually.
When the Buffer on the C=64's terminal program was almost full, I would press
the Key to tell the BBS to Pause.
Save the Buffer to floppy disk, Clear the Buffer and then type the Command to
have the BBS resume sending what it had for me.

IIRC I saved the buffer   2 or maybe even 4 times in a Session.

After Logging Off, I would read the file.
Print what I wanted.

OR

It may have been I would have had my Epson FX-86 printer print all of the info
the BBS sent to me.
Under the Printer was a Box of FanFold Paper.

I may had printed everything, logged off and then start reading.

If there was a message I wanted to Reply to, I'd type it up, save to floppy
disk, and log in again to send any replies I made.

Back two years ago when DSL was working here, I used an BAT File to run a FTP
Script that would Sign In, GET new mail on this BBS, Log Off.

If I had outgoing message(s) I ran the BAT File for the FTP Script that PUT
them on CCO (Capitol City Online).

Back then I used MultiMail DOS to Read and Write messages.

Chris, about 110Baud ASCII, I "think" (C) TM it is 7 bits.
I haven't seen any purffed(?) tape to know if there were 7 or 8 Holes in it.

RTTY Baudot tape has 5 Holes I know as a FACT after handling many, many miles
of it in the Ships Radio Room.

Earlier I mistyped 6 Key Keypad on the ELF  board, suppose to had typed 16
Keys.    DUH!!!!!!!!!!!

One other thing about my use of the Netronics ASCII/RTTY Video Terminal:
I knew ARRL (The Amateur Radio Relay League) Station W1AW sent Bulletins from
their Shack in different Modes during each day.
Voice, CW and RTTY & ASCII.

I tuned my Transceiver to the Frequency that W1AW made their RTTY Broadcast on
20 Meters (14 Mc/s) because after the RTTY Broadcast they sent the same
Bulletin(s) in 110 ASCII.

After the ASCII broadcast ended I typed:

CQ CQ CQ DE W9ODR K
on my terminal, which meant " A general call to anyone, from me, over.
I figured some other Ham who could receive ASCII would hear me and answer.

YEP!!!!!!!

I made Contacts several different days doing that.
And the first time I did that it proved that I could Send ASCII as well as
Receive&Decode it.

BTW in another post in this Thread I used the Amateur Radio Term "LID".

I don't know if the FCC Rules and Regulations in Part 97 have changed, but in
the 1950's Hams weren't allowed to curse on the airwaves (as TV Shows do over
the airways currently), the word LID according to a ARRL Chart means: A Poor
Operator.

Instead of cussing out someone you would call them a LID or a BIG LID.

I think I've answered all of the query's in your posts.

I'm not a mister know-it-all, I just act like one 

Well Sir, at least Mike our SYSOP hasn't banned me from this BBS. yet?
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