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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Ha , funny that Terry, I reckon I did
as well ... I reckon it was about 1988-89 when I started running a HF packet
BBS. I remember running with 2EHQ , 4BBS and others on various bands over
the time. 40, 30, 20. .. It does seem a long time ago.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Regards .. Andrew VK5EX .. ( I dont
feel like Im that old really ) !!!</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=tfneumann@internode.on.net
href="mailto:tfneumann@internode.on.net">Terry Neumann</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ozaprs@aprs.net.au
href="mailto:ozaprs@aprs.net.au">Australian APRS Users</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 07, 2010 10:58
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [OZAPRS] APRS with
Foundation license</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On 7/10/2010 10:32 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:Pine.BSI.4.64.1010070958410.8008@dave.horsfall.org
type="cite"><PRE wrap="">On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Gerard Hill wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Before the days of ROSE and NET/ROM we managed to make it from Sydney to
Mt Gambier on one occasion by digipeating through 8 repeaters. The first
two were at Mt Bindo and Tumut. You can imagine the round trip time!
</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE wrap="">*Eight* digis? I'm surprised that it worked at all... I dips me lid :-)
-- Dave
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</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>Astonishing! Imagine typing in the path details!
<SPAN class=moz-smiley-s8><SPAN> =-O </SPAN></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 <BR>
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