[OZAPRS] (no subject)

Matthew Cook vk5zm at bistre.net
Mon Oct 16 14:31:30 AEDT 2017


Glen,

Can only speak for VK5 communities...

1) 7575 still exists in isolated communities... 5175 won out over the
majority in the cities...
2) Relevance of packet slowly dwindled, WIA was nationalised, Packet User
Groups died, equipment pulled out by repeater maintainers; APRS all that is
left of AX25
3) Very little connected mode, I believe we are down to one BBS being
privately run
4) Backbones pulled out years ago

VK5 was heavily into ROSE networking and once upon a time you could route
from Adelaide through to regional areas over 4800bps ROSE packet networks.
 None of that exists (to my knowledge)... very few if any would remember
those networks.

I am told that much of the routing between packet BBS's is now via AX25
encapulation over UDP networks established between BBS's.   One of our club
members has built a FBB BBS and is the last connected mode packet service
on air here in VK5.

The wars between ROSE and NETROM died once relevance of packet dwindled, I
don't think there was ever a clear winner.

73

Matthew
VK5ZM

On 16 October 2017 at 07:24, Glen English VK1XX <
glenlist at pacificmedia.com.au> wrote:

> OK, so who here is the technical supremo that can for me, without guessing
> :
>
> 1) fill me in on a few questions I have of what has happened the past 30
> years in packet
>
> - what happened to the 7575 frequency ?
> - what happened to ROSE and net/rom ? are there any of those gateways ?
> - is there much connected mode traffic these days ?
> - what happened to the 4800/9600 backbones?
> -
>
>
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