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G8PZT > WLAN 15.09.03 11:20l 52 Lines 1861 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: Re: It's not ham radio
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From: G8PZT@GB7PZT.#24.GBR.EU
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Subject: Re: Re: It's not ham radio
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W0RLI wrote:-
>Make sure you don't go to the ham radio shop and buy
>and TNC and a 70 cm radio either. That is appliance operating.
>
>Any idiot can plug the radio to the TNC and the TNC to the computer.
>Add a chunk of pre-made coax, that small yagi you purchased, mount
>it on your factory built tower ... appliance operating.
>
LOL I had to reply to this
As a matter of fact I'm using computers I assembled from parts
of old cast-off machines, running DOS.
All the software other than the operating system are
completely original works written by me from scratch - BBS,
Packet node, Internet router, Echolink gateway, Packet client,
and various drivers.
I made up all the RS232 and ethernet cables, assembled many
of the TNC's from parts salvaged from old equipment, designed
and built some of the radios, heavily modified PMR equipment
for the others (dual-point modulation, converting 84MHz AM
set into 144MHz FM etc.), built some cavities and
bandpass filters, made up all the RF cables, and am using
a homebrew 5/8 over 5/8 dipole at the moment.
The masts are steel scaffold pipe, and I admit they were
put up by people more capable than myself, and I couldn't
actually make the pipe, the brackets, or the coax cable..
Is that sufficiently home-brew for you?
Did you build your WiFi card, all your cables and antenna?
Are you using your own programs, or did you get Bill
Gates or Linus Torvald to write them for you?
>Now go away and let the hams who are doing actual experiments
>with radio equipment get on with it.
I'm not stopping, or trying to stop, you, or anyone else
from playing with WiFi, but it's not real Ham
Radio and it's wasting valuable effort which should be
used to design our own protocols, hardware etc.
73, Paula
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