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VE3WBZ > PACKET 28.07.10 16:22l 130 Lines 5029 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Hello Dave VK2AWZ
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From: VE3WBZ@VE3LSR.#SCON.ON.CAN.NOAM
To : PACKET@WW
TO: PACKET @WW
FR: VE3WBZ@VE3LSR.#SCON.ON.CAN.NOAM
DT: Tuesday, July 27th.,2010 @2108hrs EST
Hello to Packeteers the world-wide, and even as I post this
one who posted...well he is gone to HF ... good luck.
I have to acknowledge a few postings or all I got to read
"15" in total .... some email ...SP SB ...and interesting
even to the point of pointing out politics, and court
action.... and it all sounds so familar to what is happening
here, and oh well... it is but human.... a cross segment
of society in action....right or wrong... whatever;
<< Quoting VK2AWZ to PACKET @WW >>
> From : VK2AWZ To : PACKET@WW
> Type/Status : B$ Date/Time : 22-Jul 03:17
> Title : Re: What is OUR Future?
>
> From: VK2AWZ@VK2DOT.CC.NSW.AUS.OC
> To : PACKET@WW
>
> Hi Peter and all, similarly I am very/extremely
> disappointed at the lack of answers to questions I have
> raised on packet and the lack of good bulletins.
Agreed. It is frustrating in some correspondents, that
they can not find a BBS....and that they read a posting
via the Internet and reply the same way...I am glad to
hear from them...but I am sure many others are also.
> Also in VK2 (New South Wales Australia), you can count
> on one hand, i.e. no more than 5 regular users of packet.
> That is apart from BBS sysops who seem more prolific in
> VK than users.
Same here...but smaller numbers. I see every five
minutes an auto station sign on...for Winlink...check
for msgs and is gone... and then repeated again in
the next 5 minutes ... even callsigns of the same
person each doing the same thing ...like...are they
sending messages to the other hand or something
and then I hear...of this is for EMERGENCY this
or that... duh.
> Some years ago I lost the local digi and was forced to
> use Telnet. However having tasted the wonderful speed of
> telnet, I just could not return to 12b RF packet. In fact
> I see Telnet as the way forward, if packet is to survive.
Agreed there! I have also supported RF this and that
but if not there... get the Telnet access going to keep
interest ....but then that lasts how long. Some people
just don't like it... M Digi is always on...
> Packet by the way has always been ham radio's BEST KEPT
> secret, even from inception here, many years ago. However
> I am an old ham, with radio and computers as my main hobby
> interest.
Me too! Perhaps these auto ambulance chasers should us the
local BBS to encourage it to keep going, then be a auto-pest.
I can not rememeber anything on ham radio so usefull as Packet
as all one needs is to go to the local BBS and drop a message
off there for their friends.
> Sadly though, local radio activity is disgustingly poor,
> with it even been hard getting an answer or even hearing
> anyone on the various club repeaters. Even HF is
> comparatively dead except for contests and DX hunters,
> the latter I do not enjoy. Just give me a good old rag
> chew and read some good packet bulletins.
Agreed ... In so many ways...and we are in a high population
area....designated the Toronto GTA ...
I too love a great chat and those bulls posted.
> I have seen new uses of packet, just come and go very
> quickly due to there being nothing of interest to them.
If you mean APRES...well then I'd say yeah. Here all the
rage, but...it never interested me, and I could not
figure out why? I still can not see why I need a GPS?
never needed one before... and as for the directions
some give...I can find better directions, as I needed
for a quick trip to hospital...for me.
> Overall here in VK, we are generally a very laid back
> lot, being in sympathy to an old Aussie saying
> "SHE'L be all right mate". In other words
> do as little as possible and She'll be ok!!
> Never the less Australia is quite sophisticated in its
> love of the good life and technology, with some of the
> worlds highest percentages of take up of latest
> technologies i.e. phones, TV, computers and modern home
> innovations, cars etc. Even of hams buying the latest
> bells and whistle like radios but unfortunately , not
> using their microphones Ho Hum.
> Locally it seems that it is the older hams, aged from
> 60 and over that are keeping the flag flying but for
> how long???
Agreed ... Everything. I am 60--plus and I am seeing
what old packeteers who are gone , are coming to pass
and the nails are in the coffin...so sooner or later
I know I will be going to... How long...I have not
a clue.... local schools here have no longer a radio
shack for a school station...they are computers and
Internet...and the local ham club here is tring
to kill ham radio with Internet this and that...to
the point the RF guys in the province are fedup
with them.
How long? Good question. Anhow...thanks for the
posting... I will hang in there...until the end.
73 Pete VE3WBZ
nd reading along
and somewhere... we'll have the answer...right?
73 again Pete VE3WBZ
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