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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>It’s great to find this list. Thanks to N2NOV for setting it up. Here’s my intro.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I started in Packet in the mid 1980s when I was at Bell Labs in Holmdel. I was working on the “Unix PC” project and had a breadboard prototype at home. My friend Paul, AD7I was the hardware designer on the TAPR TNC team so I got a beta TNC. I put the Unix PC on 2 meter packet and provided email and “Netnews” (Usenet) access to early packet users in NNJ/NYC. On the back end, the system was connected to CO-LAN, an experimental Labs collaboration with NJ Bell to provide hard wired 19.2K LAN service too home over the phone line. All that stopped in the late 1980s when work took me to Florida for 15 years of no ham radio then I returned to NJ (Morristown) in 2005.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I now run an HF BPQ32 system that serves as the Radio Relay International (RRI) Eastern Area Hub for the Digital Traffic Network (DTN). It runs the BPQ32 software on Windows and provides HF connectivity through Pactor or VARA. I have a second BPQ32 system, KY2D-4, on a Raspberry Pi on 145.050 packet that serves as the RRI NJ DTN hub. That system can be accessed by digipeting through W2LI-2. The RRI philosophy for radiogram traffic is to stay with RF links except for occasional routing through manual intervention in special cases. I have FIOS connected for that linking.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Somewhat related, I have an Allstar simplex node on another RPi with very limited RF range (a few blocks) plus an Asterisk PBX on another Pi. I do not have a 44 AMPRnet address range but have given it some thought. I flashed the mesh software into an old Linksys router several years ago but couldn’t reach anything at the time. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As for goals, I’d like to better integrate the RRI Digital Traffic Network access into the NJ packet network so other digital traffic handlers could reach the Eastern Area Hub. As more of a personal learning item, I’d like to better understand the advantages of using an AMPRnet address and would like to experiment with one.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>73 Jim KY2D<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>973.723.3415 or HamShack Hotline 4231.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>