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Solution looking for a problem?
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"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
Is this for real?Originally Posted by N8YX
I'm looking at the CSS web site, and I just am totally flabbergasted. They have GOT to be kidding.
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And this is better than DigiPup how?
Well it is well past time when these programs became Windows compatible. OTOH, is packet still used? Outside of APRS, I don't see it at all.
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Oh what the heck. Put a few more features in there, and you won't need the OP anymore.
Just think, no more wackers...
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And here I thought it was going to be a thread about D-Star. ;)
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There's some loose talk among some folks here about putting some old school BBS door games up on packet. With ANSI twirling cursors. Because we can. ;)
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
"OTOH, is packet still used?"
Barely.
"Outside of APRS, I don't see it at all."
That's why I've been using a Telnet connection to a BBS in Australia for the last several years. Last week the sysop shut it down leaving the APRS node so I switched to one of the few remaining. The US network collapsed a decade ago followed by the UK and now Australia is going down the tubes, packet is all but dead now.
Here's the kicker:
"MFJ and Creative Services Software announced today that EmComm Ops™ for MFJ, a packet only, 32-bit host mode program for the MFJ-127x series of TNCs has been released."
MFJ no longer markets them. :rofl:
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"True multitasking means that EmComm operators can send and receive packet communications while simultaneously relaying messages to families and rescue personnel in e-mail,” said Rick Ruhl, W4PC, CSS president and chief architect of the company’s software suite. “And in emergency situations where communications infrastructure has been compromised or conditions limit reliable radio operation, messages can be noted in a text or Microsoft Word file, then imported into EmComm Ops to be re-transmitted at a later time when conditions improve. Operators can also export messages to a file to document communications. Of course, simple Windows cut-and-paste is also supported.”
If the communications infrastructure is down, it will save your messages for a later time....when its too late to help anyone. Thats a helpful feature. I have a few questions that werent answered in the story...can this system be operated with big fat ham-hands, holding a coke and a Jack In The Box breakfast burrito? Can it be carted around to make the user look more important while wandering aimlessly around HQ pretending to be a "first responder"? Will it fit in the dash of a mid-80's model K car in such a way as to be obvious to all that he is a really important "Emcomm OP"?
Want good emcomm? A 6v cell, some solar panels, a small rig and some wire...all fits in a backpack. No "communications infrastructure" to fail, just the ionosphere, and if IT goes down, its game over anyway.
I also like how the guys name is very similar to "Rick Roll".
The louder the monkey, the smaller its balls.
Too close to "bankroll" for me ... :shock:
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
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