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ZL1ANM > PAKET 26.03.09 10:22l 35 Lines 1554 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : ZL1ANM-552
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Subj: Re: Another Nail in the Coffin
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From: ZL1ANM@ZL1AB.#06.NZL.OC
To : PAKET@WW
>From: W2AIQ@NJ2AR.#CNJ.NJ.USA.NA
>To : PAKET@WW
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>Well VK4TRS is Going Down, it is a shame with really no one to blame but an
>ever increasing dependence on the internet for communications both by hams and
>non hams alike, I keep wondering if anything will ever replace paket, some
>other "radio" mode of store and forward or is the store and forward method just
>outdated altogether? the loss of radio based bbs's has forced many to go onto
>the internet to access the world of radio based bbs's and often times messages
>are sent and received without ever having gone over the airwaves at
>all......this is not amateur radio, but it is what amateur radio paket has been
>forced to transform into in some cases, saddening.
The new D-Star system offers the capability of sending text messages from
handheld to handheld in near-real time, just as cellphones do.
I'll be sorry to see the end of packet, which (unlike most internet groups)
has always been non-specific in topic, and therefore of broader appeal.
Using packet since 1995, I quickly learned an enormous amount about data
handling (everything from ASCII code to RS-232 pinouts to AX.25 protocol).
In recent years I've even taught myself BASIC and Assembler in order to
write my own APRS beaconing and data handling programs. This led into the
programming of microprocessors. So for me, packet has been a very useful
training environment.
73 de Neil ZL1ANM
T4 1.5à24
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