[OZAPRS] VK2WI packet closure

[Peter Mudie]

At 11:53 AM 10/12/2010, Tony King wrote:
>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.

10pm to 10am is cheaper than 10am-10pm with a smart meter in NSW what gives?


Peter..
Vk2XZP


>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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