[AusNOG] For AusNOG amateur radio licensees

[Geordie Guy]

Thanks for the answers off list guys.


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Geordie Guy <elomis at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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