Text 345, 76 rader
Skriven 2007-01-01 18:58:03 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
    Kommentar till text 344 av Thom LaCosta (1:261/1352.0)
Ärende: BBS & Echolink
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Thom LaCosta -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 TL> Ed Hulett wrote in a message to Thom LaCosta:

 EH>>> They now have "DX" contests using VoIP. I just don't get the idea
 EH>>> of how this is Amatuer Radio.

 TL>> It's not radio (g).

 EH>> Heh... exactly my point.

 EH>> Our local radio club has one of the repeaters (the one used the
 EH>> most) connected to the internet. I've heard people use it like they
 EH>> were tuning in a rare DX contact. I feel embarrassed for them just
 EH>> listening to it.


 TL> I am getting ready to install an internet based CW system....yep, it
 TL> ain;t radio, and as such has no QSB, QRN, QRM and is immune at this
 TL> point from being regulated by the Federal Mis-Communications Commission.

Sounds interesting.

 TL> Considering the recent actions of the FCC in terms of dumbing down of
 TL> the Amateur Radio service and the stupidity of new freuency allocations,
 TL> I expect to see more and more internet based communications.

It was inevitable. With other countries dropping code requirement and lobbying
from the various no code groups, it was only a matter of time before the US
dropped the code requirement.

As for the frequency allocations, I'm waiting to see just how big an influence
that has on how people use the bands. I haven't seen much change in where the
various nets are.

 EH>> Needless to say, I don't listen to the repeater often.

 TL> I stopped listening to the ones around here years ago....boring, boring,
 TL> boring, and that had nothing to do with the Internet.

You can say that again. All the NCTs waiting in line to get some DX on the
local repeater. That is why I rarely, if ever monitor repeaters. I prefer to
use simplex. Why use a repeater when the person you are chatting with is within
simplex range? I never could get that.

 TL> 73 and Merry Christmas to all.

Samr to you and have a great new year.

 EH>> PS: There are some over in FIDONEWS saying some terrible things
 EH>> about you.

 TL> Oh, I don't read many echoes now a days...especially the cesspool ones.
 TL> I can;t for the life of me imagine why anyone would read things like
 TL> Fidonews, FN_SYSOP, etc.

I deselected FIDONEWS just last night. I started reading it a couple weeks ago
when some idiot started spamming the echos I do read with off topic crossposts
from there. The Z2 bunch over there are a collection of arrogant fools.

 TL> As far as saying terrible things....that's been going on for years...

I know how it is. Been there, done that.

73

Ed, KC7FLR

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and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." -- Thomas Jefferson

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