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[Glen English VK1XX]

thanks for all the history fellas. great to hear about the John Tanner
story.

I remember Barry saying this and that about netrom, rose etc...the
arguments between opposing camps were heated.

and then of course, the AX25/V2 Mr Lockhart .. Each side had their
reasonable arguments, though I think TAPR adopted a not invented here
syndrome and V2 was seen as a highbrow creation that the average septic
couldn't understand, V2 was a more advanced air protocol, but I think
the AX25 boys were thinking a bit further ahead , although it was dumbed
down. Both had their +/-.
***For the record I am a septic.*** (AI6UM)


On 16/10/2017 3:49 PM, vk2tv wrote:
>
> Being on the mid north coast of NSW has isolated me from much of what
> used to happen with Rose/Netrom networks, and since I retired my FBB
> BBS (6 radio ports plus axudp to a number of overseas stations) about
> seven years back I've lost pretty much all contact.
>
> Sydney was predominantly Rose, as was the north coast and the New
> England (Armidale/Glen Innes/etc) but Netrom did persist in other
> areas of the state. The Rose network backbone in VK2 fell apart when
> the state government declared that all users of its real estate would
> pay commercial rental rates (a figure of $5,000 PA was mentioned), and
> that led to the closure of a major hub in Newcastle that was housed at
> an Electricity Commission (then) site. AAPRA (Australian Amateur
> Packet Radio Association) hung in there for a while but eventually it
> succumbed to the declining interest in packet, and the organisation
> wound up. Prior to the closure of the Newcastle hub some ground had
> been covered establishing 4k8 inter-node links on dedicated RF pairs
> to replace the 440.050 1k2 half-duplex links that were choked with
> traffic. But even at that point in time interest in packet was
> declining rapidly and its future was pretty much set in stone.
>
> Both Netrom and Rose networking had their followers but you're right,
> Matthew, there wasn't a clear winner.
>
> I'd like to see a resurgence in packet but for my area, Kempsey, I'd
> be a network of one station!
>
> BTW Glen, I was a member of the Central Coast ARC back around 1983
> when fellow member John Tanner, VK2ZXQ introduced us to packet, and
> the club bought a Vancouver TNC prior to the short-lived bun fight
> over Vancouver protocol vs TAPR.
>
> Ray vk2tv