[AusNOG] For AusNOG amateur radio licensees

[James Spenceley]

Just remembered aligning a 2m or 70cm antenna to the right part of the sky and connecting my apple IIc via packet radio to the Mir space station. To have all of about 2mins of ASCII chat with the guy on the space station who had an amateur radio license. Good times. :)


James


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On 18/04/2013, at 20:11, Ross Wheeler <ausnog at rossw.net> wrote:

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> On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, James Spenceley wrote:
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>> 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 :)
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> What about TAPR :)
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>> 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 :)
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> 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)
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