[FADCA] Fw: Internet/FBB/LINUX/FPAC

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According to the Winlink page, as given below, there are 2 Winlink stations in Florida:

Rockledge, Florida  KN6KB  on 145.090 and 441.000 + HF
Panama City, Florida N4RNM no vhf or uhf only HF

Not quite enough unless the last mile is is from 200 to 300 Miles except Near Rockledge.  Do anyone know of more?

Russ

On Thu, 28 February 2002, "bud Thompson" wrote:

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "bud Thompson" <budt@cfl.rr.com>
> To: <highlandfl@telocity.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 5:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Internet/FBB/LINUX/FPAC
> 
> 
> > Deltona
> > Thursday Feb 28 1715EST
> >
> > Hi, Russ:
> >
> > Not sure I can take the time right now to do Justice to your questions...
> > been very busy with MLB ROSE stuff and have a GAL report due tomorrow!
> > Arrrgh!
> >
> > > Can you provide a list of known existing Winlink 2000 (WL2K) stations so
> > thier geographical locations can be mapped to see what may >currently
> exist
> > and where the "gaps" are?
> >
> > http://www.winlink.org/stations.htm
> >
> > will give you this information.  Check on World Map, click on any CALL,
> but
> > be careful- read below before browsing too deeply.
> >
> > WL2K, per se, is more an HF thing than anything else.  "Users" of WL2K
> > typically run Airmail as the terminal program - HF ARQ or packet on
> vhf/uhf.
> > Most users are /mm  or RVers - which, for our purposes,  represent
> tactical
> > operations inside the Last Mile w/o wireline connections.
> >
> > My concept is that tactical users inside  the Last Mile will run Airmail
> > packet to get to the wire line "connection" which will probably be another
> > AirMail or a WL2K station where the beer, wine, and all flow freely
> through
> > the telnet port since it is outside the Last Mile.
> >
> > There are many WL2K stations in the world on HF and very few of those are
> > also on local Packet - a definite flaw in the system.  That said, all we
> > need in/near the Last Mile here in FL is one Airmail or WL2K station that
> is
> > linked to the Internet and we are in Fat City.  We can plan for that link
> > through the HF MBO network that I've been involved with for 15 years.  I
> > link to participating stations from Washington state to New England and
> else
> > where.  We can set up a WL2K, AirMail, or Classic station(s) at any
> location
> > to do that.
> >
> > The good news is that, say here in FL, the Last Mile might be three
> > contiguous counties, the "connection" might be in Denver, Minneapolis,
> NYC,
> > New Delhi India, FW in TX, or the closest county EOC inside FL that has a
> > wireline connection  - with only one HF AirMail station at the periphery
> of
> > the Last Mile the connection can be made.
> >
> > I fully realize this is not much different than what we know as "Telnet".
> > However, my concept includes the fact that inside the Last Mile there are
> so
> > few hams, much less non-licensed volunteers, who will understand
> "digital",
> > much less "telnet", - that we need to be using "e-mail" - which a greater
> > number of hams and non-ham volunteers will understand.
> >
> > Bottom line: We need to dumb -down the work of data entry inside the Last
> > Mile.
> >
> > 73,
> > bud N0IA
> >
> >
> 
> 
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