[OZAPRS] VK2WI packet closure

[Tony King]

User log showed no users at all after 10pm the computer radio and tnc 
were just burning power for no reason
It is the same with the IRLP node  (6414) so it also is switched off 
each night at 10pm.
                                                                                                   regards Tony

On 10/12/2010 10:39 PM, Peter Mudie wrote:
> 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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