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Bob VK6BE touches on a sore point here. There was a good radio link to Western
Australia via VK6TN but although we in the eastern states sent traffic to
VK6TN the sysops in Perth ignored him as far as sending outgoing traffic via
VK6TN. They prefered to use the internet and eventually Ernie VK6TN gave up
and sold his PTCII to VK5ATB who is trying to find another home for it in
Australia. The internet sysops in the eastern states didn't help either by
using the internet to forward to WA despite the existance of a viable RF Path.
This is a clear example of the damage that internet forwarders do to amateur
radio. Perhaps we should retaliate in some way. When you put it all together
with IRLP, ILink etc (which some idiot was promoting as an emergency facility)
how long will it be before the authorities say;
"Look, you don't really need those HF bands, you can do all you want by using
the internet". Hmmmm
Barry VK2AAB
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>From: VK6BE@VK6JY.#ALY.#WA.AUS.OC
>To : LIDS@WW
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>Ah yes, Warren, exactly..
>BUT what some of us have been saying is that some of us are not in the
>position to connect all the way through radio since the RF links do not
>function 100% of the time or are not accessible at all through distance
>between BBSs or ionospheric conditions. In that case you imply better get
>off packet altogether, rather than use BBSs that inevitably have to use
>the Internet to get through? Sounds like it.
>I have radio through the BBSs as far as Perth (260 miles) but what happens
>beyond that I wouldn't know but I bet there's Internet lurking in there
>somewhere before the bulletins get to you. There certainly is in the
>reverse direction.Better if the bulls don't get through you say?
>BTW I reckon you are kicking a brick uphill. This is one argument that you
>won't win 'cos you can't change what you see happening in the ham radio
>world now. It is not going to go away no matter how much you argue.
>Bob VK6BE.
>
>> It requires no more than a Ham RADIO station, only
>> slightly different than the VHF setup I use to connect to the BBS.
>
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