N8YX
02-27-2019, 09:18 AM
At one time, this was a fascinating (to me) mode and I threw a considerable amount of effort and cash into building one of the largest BBS/gateway nodes in the region. Three HF (2 300 baud; one 1200 baud on 10M), three VHF (2 2M and one 223MHz) ports, plus a landline dial-in for remote monitoring when I was away.
The death of the upstream SysOp (and with it, his system) meant no feed to the BBS. Thus, I shut it off in 2003 or thereabouts. Was a good run.
Recently I dragged out one of the KAMs and connected it to the Yaesu side of da hizzle (see the NCS thread in the 'Gadgets and High Tech' sub-forum). There isn't too much on HF these days with the exception of Network 105 (14.105LSB) but VHF seems awash with interesting - albeit different - possibilities.
One of these is APRS. Anyone playing with it? I started reconditioning some other gear for use in portable operation...a KPC-3, which will be used with a VX-7R. Even snagged an old Tandy Model 102 for use as a terminal.
The death of the upstream SysOp (and with it, his system) meant no feed to the BBS. Thus, I shut it off in 2003 or thereabouts. Was a good run.
Recently I dragged out one of the KAMs and connected it to the Yaesu side of da hizzle (see the NCS thread in the 'Gadgets and High Tech' sub-forum). There isn't too much on HF these days with the exception of Network 105 (14.105LSB) but VHF seems awash with interesting - albeit different - possibilities.
One of these is APRS. Anyone playing with it? I started reconditioning some other gear for use in portable operation...a KPC-3, which will be used with a VX-7R. Even snagged an old Tandy Model 102 for use as a terminal.