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VK3API > ALL 28.03.09 01:04l 57 Lines 2444 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 621999VK3API
Read: GUEST
Subj: VK3API to close
Path: IZ3LSV<IQ3GO<SR1BSZ<ON4HU<F1UOK<ON0BEL<VK4TRS<VK3API
Sent: 090327/2347Z @:VK3API.#MEL.VIC.AUS.OC #:37705 [Lilydale] FBB7.00g
From: VK3API@VK3API.#MEL.VIC.AUS.OC
To : ALL@WW
Hi Every one
After around 15 years of operation and in spite of my previous bulletin to
sysop I have decided to close the VK3API BBS concurrent with the closure
of VK4TRS. The VK3API BBS operated under the callsigns of VK2FBD, VK3FBD
and finally VK3API over that 15 year period.
During the process of setting up new forwarding partners I realised that
the BBS was running 24/7 as a service to only one regular user (me) and
that the other users were logging on at only rare intervals.
I have greatly enjoyed the various discussions I have either read or been
party to over the whole period of operation. Packet has been a very
interesting part of my amateur operations.
To those 15 sysops who offered me forwarding I say thank you for your
generosity and I will contact you each individually via the internet.
I will now turn my attentions to some other (hopefully digital) aspect of
ham radio where I can pursue the design and construction part of the
hobby. It does sadden me that the hobby has become "non technical".
Listening to the various bands now you just hear a lot of ill informed
technically incorrect crud being spouted as gospel. How sad.
It has also been very saddening to see the decline of tolerance amongst
amateurs. Packet is not the only place where carping and bitching has
become the main mode of operation.
When I started in ham radio, around 1956, amateur magazines had numerous
articles on building things and construction articles explained in great
detail. You could actually use those designs as a building block to go
onto design something you wanted to build and publish.
Back in those days as a beginner I learnt heaps of important techniques
from those sort of articles. Now the magazines are full of what could be
best described as semi advertisements describing the construction of
commercial kits, and the all important source code, from which beginners
could learn, is held secret for "commercial reasons".
So thanks once again to all those with whom I have corresponded over the
years it has been great fun, so now onto some newer digital aspect of ham
radio, if I can find or invent one.........
Regards and goodbye on packet
Tony VK3API
73 - Tony, VK3API @ VK3API.#MEL.VIC.AUS.OC
Message timed: 09:47 on 2009-Mar-28
This message originated in Lilydale Melbourne Victoria Australia
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