<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Unfortunately, my East and West links are no longer there and the internet made the BBS obsolete</span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><font face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">I agree with that. I think you're leading up to the right question: what would be our purpose in trying to restart all of this? What's the reason someone not that interested in packet radio would become interested?</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">I'm kind of interested in focusing on sensors. That's one of the reasons I think COAP is a good fit. But I also like the messaging idea, just not in the form of a bulletin board. I think what would be really cool would be something more like an SMS application that allows for group texts, geographical area broadcasts, and message confirmation. The point would be to make something that still works if the internet and the cell towers go dark - inline with (one of) Amateur Radio's theoretical reasons to exist.</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 1:19 PM George Masny <<a href="mailto:ka2gpj@yahoo.com">ka2gpj@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><div dir="ltr">Hi!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Still have some packet equipment in mothballs - a complete node/BBS setup with two link radios. Unfortunately, my East and West links are no longer there and the internet made the BBS obsolete... Oh, BTW - I was the SysOp at WB2WXQ BBS and KPARK node.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">73 de KA2GPJ</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div>George S Masny </div><div dir="ltr">USA, EKC & USPS</div><div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">(Retired)</span></span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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On Saturday, November 14, 2020, 11:08:10 AM EST, Charles J. Hargrove <<a href="mailto:n2nov@n2nov.net" target="_blank">n2nov@n2nov.net</a>> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Great introductions from KE7WWT, K3LTC, KB2LFZ, K2QQY, WZ2B and W2DAB.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Over the past few days we have picked up list members from NY-NBEMS and<br></div><div dir="ltr">UNYPROG groups on Yahoo. Unfortunately, I have found a few who are SK.<br></div><div dir="ltr">We have 14 who have <a href="http://YAHOO.COM" target="_blank">YAHOO.COM</a> email addresses that at times get throttled.<br></div><div dir="ltr">It is best if they use a non-Yahoo/AOL/Verizon address like GMAIL, etc.<br></div><div dir="ltr">If you know of someone who should be on this list, pass along the invite.<br></div><div dir="ltr">They can go to <a href="http://HamGateNY.n2nov.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://HamGateNY.n2nov.net </a>and go to the mailing list link.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On 11/10/2020 11:28 PM, Charles J. Hargrove wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr">> So far we have seen introductions from:<br></div><div dir="ltr">> KA1NJL, K2JJT, WW2BSA, KB2AJM and AJ2A.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> How about the rest of this 92 person group?<br></div><div dir="ltr">> What is your set-up or what will it be?<br></div><div dir="ltr">> What software, hardware, services, etc?<br></div><div dir="ltr">> Let us all help each other to get things going.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> On 11/5/2020 11:06 AM, Charles J. Hargrove wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> Since the merger of the WNYPG mailing list into the HamGateNY list, we<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> now have 87 members (some who were on both lists). This would be a great<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> opportunity to introduce yourselves. Give us your callsign, what area of<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> NY State (or outside of it), what kind of packet system you are <br></div><div dir="ltr">>> running, etc.<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> Let's use this list as a request-for-help and sharing of <br></div><div dir="ltr">>> knowledge/projects.<br></div><div dir="ltr">>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>> I will start:<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> - N2NOV<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> - Staten Island, NYC<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> - EmComm lead for ARES/RACES during 9/11, 2003 Blackout, etc<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> - Founder/President of NYC-ARECS (<a href="http://www.nyc-arecs.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.nyc-arecs.org</a>)<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> - running JNOS system since 1998 starting on DOS and now Linux<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> - NY State 44Net/AMPR.org coordinator<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> - IT field since 1989 (databases, networking, help desk, web hosting)<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> - ran for Congress as a write-in twice <br></div><div dir="ltr">>> (<a href="http://www.HargroveForCongress.us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.HargroveForCongress.us</a>)<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> - Secretary of the Staten Island Libertarian Party<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr">Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV<br></div><div dir="ltr">NYC-ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">NYC-ARECS/RACES Nets 147.360/107.2 PL<br></div><div dir="ltr">ARnewsline Broadcast Mon. @ 8:00PM<br></div><div dir="ltr">NYC-ARECS Weekly Net Mon. @ 8:30PM<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.nyc-arecs.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.nyc-arecs.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">NY-NBEMS Net Saturdays @ 10AM & USeast-NBEMS Net Wednesdays @ 7PM<br></div><div dir="ltr">on 7.036 Mhz USB (alt 3.536)/1500 hz waterfall spot; MFSK-16 or 32<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls <br></div><div dir="ltr">topped<br></div><div dir="ltr">by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." - Ronald Reagan<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">"Molann an obair an fear" - Irish Saying<br></div><div dir="ltr">(The work praises the man.)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">"No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it<br></div><div dir="ltr">provides, it can never take the place of volunteers." - Ronald Reagan<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div>
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