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[Andrew Rich]

I was australias top radar tech 

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> On 16 Oct 2017, at 1:52 pm, Glen English VK1XX <glenlist at pacificmedia.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Matthew, thanks  for the history info.
> 
> and Andrew- you clearly can do some very good smart work, and you are
> obviously well capable in your field of interest and useful to the
> community,  but those sort of useless comments are not becoming
> behaviour  of someone who has the ability to be a technical
> innovator/leader.
> 
> 
>> On 16/10/2017 2:31 PM, Matthew Cook wrote:
>> 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 <mailto: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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