[HamGatePA] Mitigating Possible Changes to 44Net

[Leon Zetekoff]

hi charles....well I am on the new allocation but the mikrotik script is 
not working right so I reached out to marius.

All this happened yesterday. IMHO big deal if you don't hit the portal 
in a year. do ISPs shut you down only if you dont pay your bill :-)

73 leon

On 8/9/2023 8:41 AM, Charles J. Hargrove wrote:
> That cancellation was done at the ARDC level in one of their purges.
> I can reissue your old subnet and get you going from there. Just let me
> know as you are putting in your request so that I can approve it 
> immediately.
>
> On 8/9/2023 8:31 AM, Leon Zetekoff wrote:
>> Hi Charles! I just went through this because I missed the messages 
>> that I needed to get into the portal once a year and then finally I 
>> was turned off.
>>
>> So I lost my original 44.56.53.1/28 and now have 44.63.18.112/28
>>
>> Trying to get things back up and running is a PITA.
>>
>> 73 leon wa4zlw
>>
>> On 8/8/2023 11:03 AM, Charles J. Hargrove wrote:
>>> There seems to be a push by the technical committee of ARDC to form the
>>> 44Net address space along perceived use rather by area/region/state  
>>> use.
>>> The plans are to be "finalized" by the end of the year, although 
>>> some new
>>> procedures are already being carried out which has caused problems 
>>> for new
>>> users in our network and area.
>>>
>>> For the foreseeable future, pass the word with any forwarding partners,
>>> new users and local clubs to NOT file for an allocation on the 44Net 
>>> portal,
>>> but instead contact me directly at n2nov at n2nov.net for a conversation
>>> and I can walk them through it in real time so that it can not be short
>>> circuited in the process. The state hamgates for Maryland and Delaware
>>> just went live this weekend, complete with a central bbs for message
>>> forwarding and Wireguard VPN servers for anyone to make use of. The 
>>> past
>>> 18 months have been rolling along for increasing connectivity and 
>>> usefulness.
>>> Let's see what we can do to keep it that way and to improve 
>>> functionality.
>
>