[OZAPRS] Fw: APRS with Foundation license

[George Glendinning]

Recent  messages remind me of contacts I had from mackay in central qld  with by HF bbs and the links up the coast on 144.9  re peter vk2ehq   wonder where u ar   paid u a visit to the chicken farm  once would appreciate ur contact info   email    skype    etc 
Regards George   vk4ajl    still mackay   vk4ajl at bigpond.net.au
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Carl Makin 
To: Australian APRS Users 
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] APRS with Foundation license


Evening All,


On 07/10/2010, at 11:48 AM, Peter wrote:


  With the extravagant digis, it happened generally during Summer months with the help of ducting, before too many BBSs on 2mx, before Netrom and Rose, before Msys (TCPIP) BBS (more overheads per frame  than politicians) and a lot of luck and lots of retries, but fun to try.


I used to sit here in Canberra and watch them go by.  Was one summer where it wasn't unusal to have a keyboard conversation via 6 digis to Mt Gambier from Canberra.  Then Rose came along with its 2 digi restriction and stopped it all.


I used to run a BBS as well, forwarding via 2 digis to Orange up north and Wangeratta down south.  Then for a year or so Peter, vk3ehq and Peter, vk3ave would drop bulletins onto my box (thanks guys!) via dialup modem and fidonet and I'd push them out north and south.


Was a lot of fun...




Carl,
(vk1kcm)




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