Subj : Re: Packet Radio
To   : Roen
From : Starstorm
Date : Sun Mar 14 2021 05:52 pm

On 14 Mar 2021, Roen said the following...
 Ro> Packet is alive and well here in Maine, and we're linked into New
 Ro> Hampshire and Canada via Houlton, but you're right: it's a very niche
 Ro> market. It's primarily EMAs and hospitals linked with club ECTs and ARES
 Ro> groups. Most of the folks around me in Southern Maine that are tinkering
 Ro> with it here seem to be retired folks with the time to constantly tweak
 Ro> audio levels and mail forwarding rules. I'm one of a few exceptions,
 Ro> age-wise, at 41 years old. However, I'm in it for the emcomm as well.
 
There's not much around here, though I saw somewhere in the next county over
from me (Clay county, I'm in Duval, Jacksonville to be specific) there is
Winlink, but that's about the extent of it.

 Ro> For giggles, I set up a security level for known hams on my board, and
 Ro> set up telnet links in the Doors menu to the nodes I'm a sysop for:
 Ro> WS1EC at the Cumberland County EMA, and W1YCA at the York County EMA;
 Ro> and their respective emergency communications teams (ham clubs). I'd
 Ro> love to have a radio link into my BBS, but sadly it'd just be me, and it
 Ro> def needs 9600 to be barely tolerable and still color ANSI.

That sounds cool, will have to check that out. 

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