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Hello,<br>
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My name is Joe Cupano, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.qrz.com/lookup/ne2z">NE2Z</a> and I live in
Mountainville (Orange County) New York -- Grid FN21XJ.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; font-style:
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">Past Secretary <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.unyrepco.org/">UNYREPCO</a>,
Past Vice President nd current Director <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ocarcny.org/">OCARC</a>.</span><br>
<br>
My first foray into digital was in 1981 doing AFSK with a <span
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!important; float: none;"></span><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81" target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255)
none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding:
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Sinclair ZX81</a><span
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!important; float: none;"> that I built </span><span
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span></span>using the load/save
cassette ports<br>
to "connect" with another Amateur Radio owning similar kit </span><span
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255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span></span></span><span
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span> </span>over<span> </span></span><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-meter_band"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background:
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span></span></span>. I missed the
"heydey" of packet radio<br>
after that cause I was busy sowing my wild oats.<br>
<br>
After settling down with both wife and career in technology, in
the naught years I started getting back into digital
communications.<br>
Around that time a friend</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51,
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"> of mine,<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.arrl.org/news/john-champa-k8ocl-sk"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background:
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K8OCL</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">, asked me to
join a<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.arrl.org/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background:
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!important; float: none;"><span> </span>Technology Task Force on<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Committee%20Reports/2006/July/BOD06-2%20CTO%20Annex%20C%20rev2.pdf"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background:
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Multimedia radio</a><br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; font-style:
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span></span>investigating the next
generation in digital communications within Amateur Radio. Happy
to see over the years since that task force<br>
disbanded developments in<span> </span></span><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background:
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networking</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size:
16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
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255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span> </span>born
from it.</span></span><br>
<br>
Since then I have been spending the time bridging the worlds of
makers, hackers, and.<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size:
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0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"> Over the past decade I have supported<br>
the biennial<span> </span></span><a rel="noopener noreferrer"
href="https://hope.net/" target="_blank" style="background:
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Hackers on
Planet Earth (HOPE)</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
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255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span> </span>conference
whether it be running a<span> </span></span><a rel="noopener
noreferrer"
href="https://cupano.com/wordpress/index.html%3Fp=158.html"
target="_blank" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat
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normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px;">special event station</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51,
51); font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span> </span>or
conducting <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://cupano.com/wordpress/hopexii-workshop/">workshops</a>.<br>
I am a member of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://notebook.hvdn.org/">HVDN</a> and currently lead the
development of a RF network project called <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/hudsonvalleydigitalnetwork/hasviolet">HASviolet</a>
available on RPi and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/hudsonvalleydigitalnetwork/hasviolet-duck">ESP32</a>.<br>
<br>
73,<br>
<br>
- Joe, NE2Z<br>
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</span><br>
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<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Charles J. Hargrove:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:e4386446-f97a-f961-f82a-fddcea06220e@n2nov.net">Since
the merger of the WNYPG mailing list into the HamGateNY list, we
<br>
now have 87 members (some who were on both lists). This would be
a great
<br>
opportunity to introduce yourselves. Give us your callsign, what
area of
<br>
NY State (or outside of it), what kind of packet system you are
running, etc.
<br>
Let's use this list as a request-for-help and sharing of
knowledge/projects.
<br>
<br>
I will start:
<br>
- N2NOV
<br>
- Staten Island, NYC
<br>
- EmComm lead for ARES/RACES during 9/11, 2003 Blackout, etc
<br>
- Founder/President of NYC-ARECS (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nyc-arecs.org">http://www.nyc-arecs.org</a>)
<br>
- running JNOS system since 1998 starting on DOS and now Linux
<br>
- NY State 44Net/AMPR.org coordinator
<br>
- IT field since 1989 (databases, networking, help desk, web
hosting)
<br>
- ran for Congress as a write-in twice
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.HargroveForCongress.us">http://www.HargroveForCongress.us</a>)
<br>
- Secretary of the Staten Island Libertarian Party
<br>
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</blockquote>
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