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G7SRI > PAKET 22.03.09 20:01l 51 Lines 2087 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: Another Nail in the Coffin
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From: G7SRI@GB7NND.#23.GBR.EU
To : PAKET@WW
[T:1623. D:22/03/09 #:1561 N:Geoff B:GB7NND {IO93JG, Clowne}]
Adam
Had 'em (Claimed to be the shortest poem)
Hi,
I agree wholeheartedly with the comments mad by W2AIQ made recently about
the fall in use of RF on packet. It's a great shame that the rf network
for packet has fallen into the present state. Whilst the internet has
speeded up the transfer of packet bulletins between one BBS and another,
it simply is not radio.
Likewise, the use of 'Echolink' can and sometimes is accomplished without
the use of a radio at all. IRLP is slightly different because in the case
I have come across the person at each end is using a radio to connect
through an RF gateway or IRLP linked repeater network, but often, when I
have listened on such links the audio quality has been very poor and
sometimes so badly effected by interference that it was hardly worth
attempting a conversation.
I refuse to have any internet connection in my home, I tried it once quite
a few years ago and was not impressed by it. The added risk, in spite of
anti virus software, of a virus getting through the protection is a
further reason not to bother with it. If the packet network is reduced to
a state where it is no longer viable to use my local BBS without resorting
to an internet connection then I shall simply do what a lot more Radio
Amateurs have already done and stop using the mode.
I appreciate the work done by sysops that have tried to keep the mode
running, in particular the two men who operate GB7NND and GB7SYP, both of
which I can access by Radio. I didn't become a radio amateur in order to
use internet, I did it because I want to use RADIO and explore some of the
things it has to offer, including a great deal of help I have had from
other radio enthusiasts. I hope, that in some way, I have also been able
to help others.
73 from Geoff, G7SRI @ GB7NND.#23.GBR.EU
Message timed: 16:22 on 22-Mar-2009
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