[AusNOG] For AusNOG amateur radio licensees

[Geordie Guy]

Perhaps off list as I'm cautious this is a little off topic, but is there a
succinct summary as to what one needs to do to get a license?  I lurk UHF
CB sometimes and would be curious to understand how to go further.

- Geordie


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au>wrote:

> 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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