[AusNOG] For AusNOG amateur radio licensees

[Ross Wheeler]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, James Spenceley wrote:

> I still remember the debates on using ROSE or TCP/IP for the ax.25 
> packet gateways. Guess TCP/IP was the right choice huh :)

What about TAPR :)


> My first Internet access was via the ax.25 ham radio gateways back in 
> 1991-2'ish. The intent was you could hop across the Internet to other 
> ax.25 gateways but if you poked around you could also exit into the IP 
> world and connect to the various university machines, I'm pretty sure 
> that was never the intent but man an account on a UNI machine sure was 
> useful :)

They were all good days.
My old Packet->Fidonet gateway was great for years, then "the department" 
sent me a letter querying the legality. Since the only fidonet users were 
identified ham operators, there was no problem - but red tape and BS took 
all the fun out of it, I think I turned it off around 1995. (Held at least 
one ham ticket continuously since 1975, but not very active these days)