[OZAPRS] Melbourne APRS Digipeater Status

[David Uzzell]

Here Here to that. As a Scout all those many years ago we ran a ROSE BBS 
in sydney and looked at links in Newcastle but came to the same problem, 
Gov Cost for site access.

I would love to see Packet run again, it has such potential. It has been 
from I can tell been part of the HCC used by Wicen in a limited direct 
link type form. I would LOVE to see it come back online in some form or 
another.

And for those to say that only the oldies would want it back, I am only 36.

The one thing I want to get into is a Portable-Remote APRS Igate/Digi. 
My Father-in-Law lives out towards Roma in Western QLD and there is NO 
aprs out there, I travel up there a lot and thought there has to be a 
way I can setup a portable Digi/iGate using Tel$tra NextG USB stick and 
having personal trackers as well as car for when I visit and play up 
there as well as other places but it is hard to get real good 
information on what others may or may not have done. I joined this list 
to see if I could find some of that but alias it hasn't come just more 
of this complaining over some words in an email.

The one thing I would love to get into and get a movement going again is 
FoxHunting and ARDF in Sydney, I have been given Jeff Pages vk2byy to 
contact but all the searching I have done even QRZ I can't find any 
email address to send him an email.

  Getting the young involved in ARDF and Foxhunting with things like 
APRS tracking so that they can see where they have been and see the 
others tracks after the event is a way to get them involved and maybe 
just maybe they will be the next generation to keep APRS going, I can't 
see the internet at this point putting it out of business like it did 
with Packet.

Any pointers or advice people would like to offer would be greatly 
appreciated.

David
VK2HDM


On 25/03/2011 3:05 PM, Ray Wells wrote:
> Tony/All,
>
> I've been in this hobby long enough (licenced 42 years) to have seen 
> the masses p'd off on many occasions by the decisions of Tony's 
> "secret seven" and I'm sure I'll see it happen again, provided my 
> number in the lottery of life isn't drawn out too soon.
>
> I see regulation within the hobby by way of gentleman's agreement as 
> being essential. Unfortunately, it's so often not the gentlemen (and 
> ladies) who get to formulate those in-hobby rules; it is, as Tony 
> suggests, a secret seven or eight or four - pick your own number - who 
> then jump on mere mortals for doing the wrong thing. I know that many 
> of those individuals have contributed a lot to the hobby, heck, I'm 
> one of them, but that doesn't bestow any special rights to tell others 
> what to do.