The past future is here...BBS messages, but sadly none by RF yet. I tried some borrowed kit today and made GB7KSE officially 'Operational' on the ETCC site.

A revolting looking Tait 8110 is on the way so it'll be a wire brush and dettol to clean myself up after attempting to clean the rig..

#packet

Random question for hams...our area has a high reliance on the 1.25 meter band for packet-all of the government offices and hospitals are equipped. We've standardized for decades on Alinco single-band radios for the purpose. They're aging out and Alinco no longer makes a 220 single band radio.

So far we've tried the TYT TH9000, and are not entirely pleased. Does anyone know ANY other 220 mobile radios in production? Preferable single band?

#hamradio #packet #ax.25

While packing up the radio shack for the big move...

I just found my old KISS TNC-X with 9 pin serial that I built about 20 years ago.

Packet peeps - what software can I throw on my Mac or Win or Linux machines to play with this thing before it gets wrapped in bubble wrap for the trip back to blighty? We have packet activity near me so it would be nice to have a play and reminisce about my old Pk232mbx days.

Going to play with https://www.tnc-x.com/AGWPE.htm for now...

#Packet #tnc #kiss

Success....welcome to 1990

#packet

I am back up on VHF #Packet !

I think the problem might have been the leaves on the trees between me and my homebbs.

Can someone try sending me a message? Interested in seeing how routing works, and how reliable it is:

*KB8QPT@KD8FTR.#NEOH.OH.USA.NOAM

Thanks!!

I still see a lot of statements from amateur radio operators that #DMR doesn't have good support for #packet-data transport.

I think these opinions are based on what capabilities are (not) implemented by cheaper vendors instead of looking at the standard and what more established vendors do.

I've been trying lately to dispel this myth (and thanks to @n8gnj for publishing my comments in ZeroRetries). In fact, the support for data transfer in DMR is pretty comprehensive.