<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Sorry.. My 5 yo made a grab for the iPhone and pressed send before I finished.</div><div><br></div><div>Could I offer the following as ways that you could help out the local Melbourne area</div><div><br></div><div>1 As Richard offered remain as a rx only igate to fill in your area and provide a secondary back up if the main igate fails.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Provide a local ISS gateway, something we sadly lack</div><div><br></div><div>3. Was thinking of getting 70cm aprs back up, where we can offer more services to aprs radio users like, winlink, dx spots, store and forward, info kiosk, satellite passes and other things that make your kenwood or yeasu go bleep. Oh and at 9600 bd.</div><div><br></div><div>Your help in these areas would be greatly appreciated, and as we can hear each other, it makes this a great opportunity to experiment on this.</div><div><br></div><div>Your thoughts</div><div><br>Regards<div>Peter Wicklein</div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On 24/03/2011, at 22:02, Tony King <<a href="mailto:vk3api@people.net.au">vk3api@people.net.au</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<font color="#990000">MUST NOW BE TURNED OFF!!!</font><br>
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Talk about shades of the old time packet police.... <br>
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"It would have been much better put to say , "thank you for your
assistance and we appreciate your help, to avoid interference please
turn off your etc etc"<br>
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As my teenage grandsons say, "we aint actually gotta do nothin"<br>
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Regards Tony VK3API<br>
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On 24/03/2011 9:15 PM, Richard Hoskin wrote:
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