[OZAPRS] VK2WI packet closure

[Tony King]

Hi All,
At least our local BBS vk3api-1 on 144.775 in Lilydale is not 
contemplating closing at this time ...
However due to power costs (!*&%# smart meters) and lack of use over 
night it is running only from around 10am to 10pm.

All bulletins are Telnetted in due to no other BBS within vhf radio 
reach....

Feel free to log in and use it as much as you like



By the way has anybody been fitted with a smart meter yet. I notice that 
they use 2 watts of power continuously from the consumer side of the meter.
The man turned up here to fit one yesterday but went away without 
installing it when I asked to see the certificate of compliance (or it's 
number) for
electromagnetic compatibility. They work on 2.3 GHz as far as I can find 
out but I would be interested in any details ......


With heaps of RF  originating here I can imagine swamping the things 
receiver and leaving myself on permanent maximum rate charge  or 
conversely the thing jamming alll my receivers as in the reports on the 
highly technical and reliable talk back radio shows of broadcast 
interference......

Any comments would be much appreciated..........


                                                                      
Regards Tony VK3API



On 10/12/2010 8:44 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> This is indeed bad news; VK2RWI (as it was then known) was one of the
> first in the Sydney area, along with VK2XY and VK2OP etc.
>
> I actually ran one of the first systems (along with then VK2TSO) before
> Barry took it over; it was an old Commodore PC-20[*] in those days.  We
> lobbied heavily for VK2 to get into this new-fangled packet stuff, and
> Andy VK2AAK ran the first system on behalf of VK2, first from his place
> then the AEM office (remember them?) before moving to Dural (and sometimes
> from my place when it needed a major upgrade).
>
> I wrote an article for AR mag many years ago, describing how the BBS came
> to be.
>
> Sic transit gloria mundi.
>
> [*]
> A strange machine.  We had the older one, with a two-piece motherboard.
> It ran most packet software, but not all DOS software (it wasn't a true
> "PC" as such; it was sort of halfway between the 8088 and the 8086, but
> we did score a V20).  The most annoying bit was the location of the power
> switch; it was a push-button switch, right at keyboard level...  Steve
> VK2TSO got sick of rebuilding the file system, and moved the switch to the
> back panel.
>
> -- Dave
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