From: Amateur Radio Newsline™ Report 1391 – April 8, 2004

CB NEWS: VK CB TELNET NODES ON THE AIR

Some interesting news about C-B -- Citizens Band radio -- down-under. Unlike
the United States where C-B operation is hap-hazard with no structure,
Australia has a CB Packet Radio System that

***rivals anything that ham radio has ever set up.

And now, it is being linked over the Internet to C-B operations
in other nations including many Europe. This is making it possible for
Australian C-B'ers to connect with numerous other C-B stations throughout
the world using radio and Telnet. Q-News Graham Kemp, VK4BB, has the nodes and
the frequencies:

--

AUS002 Warren reports in Australia there are so far several CB Packet Radio
Nodes and BBS's. These are AU4BNE Node 27.225 Usb Brisbane Q'ld, AUS011 BBS
27.225 Usb Brisbane, AU6PER Node 476.950 Fm Perth W.A and AU6BBS BBS 476.950
Fm Perth.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, In Graham Kemp, VK4BB, of Q-News Australia.

--

So if you are scanning the 11 meter Citizens Band and hear digital signals, now
you know exactly what they are. (Q-News)

William wrote:
From: Amateur Radio Newsline™ Report 1391 – April 8, 2004

CB NEWS: VK CB TELNET NODES ON THE AIR

Some interesting news about C-B -- Citizens Band radio -- down-under. Unlike
the United States where C-B operation is hap-hazard with no structure,
Australia has a CB Packet Radio System that

***rivals anything that ham radio has ever set up.

And now, it is being linked over the Internet to C-B operations
in other nations including many Europe. This is making it possible for
Australian C-B'ers to connect with numerous other C-B stations throughout
the world using radio and Telnet. Q-News Graham Kemp, VK4BB, has the nodes and
the frequencies:

--

AUS002 Warren reports in Australia there are so far several CB Packet Radio
Nodes and BBS's. These are AU4BNE Node 27.225 Usb Brisbane Q'ld, AUS011 BBS
27.225 Usb Brisbane, AU6PER Node 476.950 Fm Perth W.A and AU6BBS BBS 476.950
Fm Perth.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, In Graham Kemp, VK4BB, of Q-News Australia.

--

So if you are scanning the 11 meter Citizens Band and hear digital signals, now
you know exactly what they are. (Q-News)



I thought Packet was dead?

- mike KB3EIA -

In article , Mike Coslo writes:

William wrote:
From: Amateur Radio Newsline™ Report 1391 – April 8, 2004

CB NEWS: VK CB TELNET NODES ON THE AIR

Some interesting news about C-B -- Citizens Band radio -- down-under.
Unlike
the United States where C-B operation is hap-hazard with no structure,
Australia has a CB Packet Radio System that

***rivals anything that ham radio has ever set up.

And now, it is being linked over the Internet to C-B operations
in other nations including many Europe. This is making it possible for
Australian C-B'ers to connect with numerous other C-B stations throughout
the world using radio and Telnet. Q-News Graham Kemp, VK4BB, has the nodes
and
the frequencies:

--

AUS002 Warren reports in Australia there are so far several CB Packet Radio
Nodes and BBS's. These are AU4BNE Node 27.225 Usb Brisbane Q'ld, AUS011
BBS
27.225 Usb Brisbane, AU6PER Node 476.950 Fm Perth W.A and AU6BBS BBS
476.950
Fm Perth.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, In Graham Kemp, VK4BB, of Q-News Australia.

--

So if you are scanning the 11 meter Citizens Band and hear digital signals,
now
you know exactly what they are. (Q-News)

I thought Packet was dead?

"The reports of its demise are greatly exaggerated..."
[paraphrase of Mark Twain's comment on his alleged obituary]]

Neither Packet nor BBSs [Bulletin Board Systems] are "dead." They
have simply evolved, changed slightly from their original practice.

Note that Australia is a whole other continent and somewhat far from
your neighborhood. It is not a good thing to evaluate anything in terms
of your own experience and what is familiar to you...and certainly not in
terms of what you, yourself, particularly desire.

LHA / WMD

Len Over 21 wrote:
In article , Mike Coslo writes:


William wrote:

From: Amateur Radio Newsline™ Report 1391 – April 8, 2004

CB NEWS: VK CB TELNET NODES ON THE AIR

Some interesting news about C-B -- Citizens Band radio -- down-under.

Unlike

the United States where C-B operation is hap-hazard with no structure,
Australia has a CB Packet Radio System that

***rivals anything that ham radio has ever set up.

And now, it is being linked over the Internet to C-B operations
in other nations including many Europe. This is making it possible for
Australian C-B'ers to connect with numerous other C-B stations throughout
the world using radio and Telnet. Q-News Graham Kemp, VK4BB, has the nodes

and

the frequencies:

--

AUS002 Warren reports in Australia there are so far several CB Packet Radio
Nodes and BBS's. These are AU4BNE Node 27.225 Usb Brisbane Q'ld, AUS011

BBS

27.225 Usb Brisbane, AU6PER Node 476.950 Fm Perth W.A and AU6BBS BBS

476.950

Fm Perth.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, In Graham Kemp, VK4BB, of Q-News Australia.

--

So if you are scanning the 11 meter Citizens Band and hear digital signals,

now

you know exactly what they are. (Q-News)

I thought Packet was dead?


"The reports of its demise are greatly exaggerated..."
[paraphrase of Mark Twain's comment on his alleged obituary]]

Neither Packet nor BBSs [Bulletin Board Systems] are "dead." They
have simply evolved, changed slightly from their original practice.

Note that Australia is a whole other continent and somewhat far from
your neighborhood. It is not a good thing to evaluate anything in terms
of your own experience and what is familiar to you...and certainly not in
terms of what you, yourself, particularly desire.

What do I desire as far as packet operations go?

- Mike KB3EIA -

Mike Coslo wrote:


What do I desire as far as packet operations go?

One thing I used to desire was essentially usenews without the bad words
and spam. But 1200 baud just doesn't cut it anymore. Slower as there
is a lot of dead time.

In article , Robert Casey
writes:

Mike Coslo wrote:

What do I desire as far as packet operations go?

One thing I used to desire was essentially usenews without the bad words
and spam. But 1200 baud just doesn't cut it anymore. Slower as there
is a lot of dead time.

"1200 baud" (actually 1200 bits per second) is about equivalent to
1200 words per minute as by:

1200 bps = 120 characters per second at 10 bits per character in
the ASCII 8-level character coding commonly used now.
120 characters per second = 7200 characters per minute.
If one "word" consists of 5 text characters plus a space character
(a common measure of throughput in telegraphy the century
before the last one), then 7200 char/min = 1200 words/min.

If the average "fast" radiotelegraphy rate is 20 words/minute,
then "1200 baud" is SIX HUNDRED TIMES FASTER than
average "CW."

Given the two vastly different communication rates, which one is
the "slow" one?

LHA / WMD

In article , Mike Coslo writes:

Note that Australia is a whole other continent and somewhat far from
your neighborhood. It is not a good thing to evaluate anything in terms
of your own experience and what is familiar to you...and certainly not in
terms of what you, yourself, particularly desire.

What do I desire as far as packet operations go?

You said you thought packet was "dead." When I wrote (after the
ellipsis) "certainly not in terms of what you, yourself, particularly
desire" then that does not say you "desire" anything in regards to
"packet operations," does it?

If you don't find "packet operations" in your ham neighborhood,
then you are certainly free to think it is "dead" but only for that
radio neighborhood you frequent. It is incorrect, reqardless of
another 2-land schoolmaster-cum-moderator's "correctness"
opinions to make absolute statements when there is obvious
evidence that packet operations are continuing on another large
continent far away from the USA...and reported on the Amateur
Radio Newsline.

You are free to explore who uses packet radio methods at
www.tapr.org, the website of Tucson Amateur Packet Radio.

LHA / WMD
statements

Mike Coslo wrote:





I thought Packet was dead?



Looks like I'll be the first with the wisecrack "Now that it's on CB,
packet IS dead!"

:-)