[AusNOG] For AusNOG amateur radio licensees

[Joshua D'Alton]

You mean that isn't God or aliens talking to me from space? :( My
grandfather had a licence way back, actually tuned into the moonlanding (vs
the 'normal' people that listened via public radio), pretty awesome.


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Tim March <march.tim at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> You can actually digipeat 2M APRS packets off the ISS...
>
>         https://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=GrR_QY8ETAk<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrR_QY8ETAk>
>
> ... I've been meaning to give it a go with my FrankenStation (Baofeng
> UV5R, homebrew 1/2 wave dipole, Linux/Xastir/Soundmodem) for a while now.
> NASA runs a Spot The Station site that'll email you pass notifications when
> the weather is suitable for it.
>
> A bunch of punters on the station are also HAMs and regularly communicate
> with people on earth...
>
>         https://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=h73EYcyszf8<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h73EYcyszf8>
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Tim "YARRRRRRR" March
>
>
> On 18/04/13 11:01 PM, James Spenceley wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 18/04/2013, at 20:11, Ross Wheeler <ausnog at rossw.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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)
>>>
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