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[Andrew Rich]

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> On 16 Oct 2017, at 1:57 pm, Andrew Rich <vk4tec at tech-software.net> wrote:
> 
> What useless comments
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> 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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