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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Terry….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Now that was a long time ago!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>And before you was Garry VK5ZK. Makes me feel old hi hi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>With the extravagant digis, it happened generally during Summer months with the help of ducting, before too many BBSs on 2mx, before Netrom and Rose, before Msys (TCPIP) BBS (more overheads per frame than politicians) and a lot of luck and lots of retries, but fun to try.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>73s<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Peter VK2EHQ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> ozaprs-bounces@aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces@aprs.net.au] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Terry Neumann<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 7 October 2010 11:28 AM<br><b>To:</b> Australian APRS Users<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OZAPRS] APRS with Foundation license<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 7/10/2010 10:32 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><pre>On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Gerard Hill wrote:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>Before the days of ROSE and NET/ROM we managed to make it from Sydney to <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Mt Gambier on one occasion by digipeating through 8 repeaters. The first <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>two were at Mt Bindo and Tumut. You can imagine the round trip time!<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>*Eight* digis? I'm surprised that it worked at all... I dips me lid :-)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>-- Dave<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>OZAPRS mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:OZAPRS@aprs.net.au">OZAPRS@aprs.net.au</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs">http://lists.aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal>Astonishing! Imagine typing in the path details! <span class=moz-smiley-s8> =-O </span>.<br><br>It's great to see some of familiar callsigns from the packet days still showing up in the past week or so. I had my first HF BBS connect with VK2EHQ - seems a long time ago. It probably was ............. (sigh)<br><br>73<br>Terry<br>VK5ATN <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>