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Packet-Radio Digest Thu, 17 Jun 99 Volume 99 : Issue 141
Today's Topics:
best software for packet (3 msgs)
HAM Radios -- requirements for 50 mile range & packet radio
Prince George Hamfest '99
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 08:33:35 +0100
From: Roger Barker <roger@peaksys.demon.co.uk>
Subject: best software for packet
In article <MPG.11d0822bee7f95f59896d5@news.lth.se>, Anders Lageras
<anders.lageras@bigfoot.com> writes
[snip]
>Most packet users don't know a shit about packet radio, and they who know
>least use bpq.
Anders, you have just insulted almost every mailbox sysop in the UK!
;-)
--
Roger Barker, G4IDE roger@peaksys.demon.co.uk
Boston, UK http://www.peaksys.demon.co.uk
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 03:15:00 -0500
From: "Charles Brabham" <n5pvl@texoma.net>
Subject: best software for packet
Roger Barker wrote in message ...
>In article <MPG.11d0822bee7f95f59896d5@news.lth.se>, Anders Lageras
><anders.lageras@bigfoot.com> writes
>[snip]
>>Most packet users don't know a shit about packet radio, and they who know
>>least use bpq.
>
>Anders, you have just insulted almost every mailbox sysop in the UK!
>;-)
Speaking of which; Isn't it a crying shame that there is no way to run G1NNA
with FlexNet? That's a great BBS program, and I hate to see it go obsolete
just because 'BPQ did.
I use FlexNet here for all of my VHF/UHF stuff, but still use 'BPQ for 300
baud HF, where it does a much better job than FlexNet can. I use two
separate computers, with FlexNet and 'BPQ communicating with each other over
a 19.2kb Full-Duplex serial link. I used Ethernet for a while, and found
that the speed advantage was simply not worth the extra memory the Ethernet
drivers took up. I found that 19.2 fulldup was more than fast enough for my
needs.
I'll agree with Ander's basic premise; That anybody using the obsolete and
unsupported 'BPQ when he could be using FlexNet instead is missing out on
the best that Packet Radio currently has to offer.
73 DE Charles Brabham,
N5PVL @ N5PVL.#NTX.TX.USA.NOAM
http://www.texoma.net/~n5pvl
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:09:17 +0100
From: Roger Barker <roger@peaksys.demon.co.uk>
Subject: best software for packet
In article <7k7maa$2749@enews3.newsguy.com>, Charles Brabham
<n5pvl@texoma.net> writes
>
>Roger Barker wrote in message ...
>>In article <MPG.11d0822bee7f95f59896d5@news.lth.se>, Anders Lageras
>><anders.lageras@bigfoot.com> writes
>>[snip]
>>>Most packet users don't know a shit about packet radio, and they who know
>>>least use bpq.
>>
>>Anders, you have just insulted almost every mailbox sysop in the UK!
>>;-)
>
>
>Speaking of which; Isn't it a crying shame that there is no way to run G1NNA
>with FlexNet? That's a great BBS program, and I hate to see it go obsolete
>just because 'BPQ did.
In the UK the standard "recipe" for a BBS is a copy of BPQ and a copy of
FBB or NNA. We have approximately 150 "AX25" (i.e. not tcp/ip) BBSs, and
I would guess that over 130 of them will be using BPQ. In that sort of
environment, there is not a lot of incentive to develop support for
other host systems.
There are probably only two or three DAMA nodes in the country, so the
fact that BPQ doesn't support DAMA is unimportant - in some other EU
countries it is, of course, very important!
Anders previous comments about the problems with KISS are very true, and
the problems get worse the busier the channel. Most of our BBS channels
are very busy, so you would think that people would try to use something
that does not have the problems that KISS has, but for some reason this
is not the case.
--
Roger Barker, G4IDE roger@peaksys.demon.co.uk
Boston, UK http://www.peaksys.demon.co.uk
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:58:29 -0700
From: The_Migrant <migrant@space.com>
Subject: HAM Radios -- requirements for 50 mile range & packet radio
A couple of questions about repeaters: Who runs them? How likely are they to
work if the power is down?
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 01:42:20 -0700
From: "Keith" <air_farce_1@hotmail.com>
Subject: Prince George Hamfest '99
The Prince George Amateur Radio Club invites you to attend their 7th annual
Hamfest August 20 - 22, 1999. It is held at Lynx lake, near Prince George,
B. C., Canada. Drop by their web site at http://www.pghamfest.dhs.org
Hope you can make it...
73 es cul - Keith
E-Mail: ve7gdh@rac.ca
URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/6000
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