[FADCA] NTS/ARES/RACES - Layered Network Growing - Now Let's Use It

Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:46:49 -0500

HI,
OUR LOCAL TRAFFIC HANDLERS HAVE FOUND FBB TO NOT BE NTS FRIENDLY.  WE
HAVE REPEATEDLY HAD TROUBLE WITH THE BBS SINCE GOING TO FBB.  THIS WAS
NEVER THE CASE PRIOR TO THAT PROGRAM.  THE NTS NET CONTROLLER HAS ASKED
FOR ME TO REPLACE FBB WITH AN NTS-FRIENDLY PROGRAM, IF A NEW ONE EXISTS. 
YOU MIGHT CONSIDER WHAT YOU WANT AND HOW NTS IS HANDLED BEFORE GOING TO
AN FBB STANDARD.
73,
TOM, KF4UTH
LEE COUNTY
W4LX / BBS  -  W4LX-2 / NODE 

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:40:55 -0500 "bud thompson" <[email protected]>
writes:
> NTS/ARES/RACES - Layered Network Growing - Now Let's Use It
> 
> Get out your map of Florida -
> 
> Before Hurricane season starts this year we should have a 
> full-functioning
> LAN/switch at Clermont with backbone links westward toward Tampa, 
> eastward
> toward Orlando and northward toward Ocala. The Orlando switch should 
> be
> relocated with resulting 24/7 linking all along the East Coast of 
> Florida.
> Getting messages from Tampa to the East Coast and up the central 
> ridge to
> Gainesville should be straight forward.  There may be more growing 
> and
> upgrading of the network as well.
> 
> We need to promote the use of the Florida Layered Network by locals 
> on their
> respective LANs.  One way to do this is to establish a 
> store-and-forward BBS
> on as many LANs as possible - the locals feel an attachment to their 
> LAN
> BBS.
> 
> Bring the network to the attention of local clubs, ARES/RACES groups 
> and
> NTS/traffic operators.
> 
> While the NTS is generally not going to be with us a lot longer, 
> (REF: ARRL
> VRC Final Report) there are still voice and some CW nets that are 
> handling
> such 3rd party messages.  Ardent traffic handlers should be a good 
> source of
> recruits for using the network for EMCOMMs.
> 
> I believe we can attract some attention to the network (and digital
> applications) if we simply get the LAN BBSs all configured to 
> properly
> process NTS traffic.  (See NTS MESSAGES ON THE DIGITAL NETWORKS and 
> STATUS
> OF DIGITAL NTS IN FLORIDA at http://www.fadca.org/articles.html.
> 
> Of course, we need more LAN BBSs!
> 
> The hardest part is getting the existing traffic handlers to take 
> advantage
> of this.  They will have to get on packet and the network to utilize 
> what we
> can provide.  Simply putting an NTS message on the packet network 
> and having
> it automatically forwarded to the Home BBS for that ZIPFIVE is not 
> going to
> do any good - there MUST be someone at that Home BBS/LAN who will 
> (1) look
> for incoming NTS traffic and (2) deliver or otherwise process it.
> 
> I check in to the daily Florida Phone Net (3940 0700E).  This past 
> week I've
> noted NTS messages for the following destinations go un serviced on 
> the
> session where first listed:  Sarasota, Cocoa, Tampa, (and two or 
> three
> others I now forget).  Every week there are five to 15 messages that 
> cannot
> be handled in reasonable time.
> 
> What would be neat would be for me to offer to take any messages for 
> which
> there is no immediate relay and simply put them on my local BBS on 
> the
> packet network.  Such messages would be autoforwarded to the proper 
> Home
> BBS, and be picked up sometime during the day or early evening by a
> participating NTS operator for delivery or relay.
> 
> I believe if every message on the Florida Phone Net that could not 
> be
> handled by voice on the session when first listed were handled this 
> way, it
> would not be long before many of the traffic handlers on the Florida 
> Phone
> Net would also get on packet.
> 
> First thing we need is an updated list of BBSs presently in service. 
>  We
> need CALL, SYSOP, LAN ADDRESS, and Hierarchal packet address of the 
> sysop.
> (Of course e-mail address will also be useful.)
> 
> Then we need a list of packet-ready NTS operators (or those 
> interested) who
> are able to use the network.  We need the list of ZIPFIVE zip codes 
> each NTS
> operator can handle (deliver or relay), and what his/her home BBS is
> (Hierarchal packet address will do.)
> 
> After that - it's all just management, building a simple data base, 
> and
> configuration for routing at each BBS.
> 
> Oh.. I made a mistake in the third paragraph above. FIRST thing we 
> need
> is someone to take on this management job.
> 
> What say?
> 73,
> 
> bud N0IA
> 
> 
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