[FADCA] Re: FADCA Digest, Vol 9, Issue 4

[Chuck Hast]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:49:08 EDT, kg4fcd at aol.com <kg4fcd at aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 10/5/2004 3:56:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> fadca-request at mailman.qth.net writes:
> 
> > We also have a switch at the EOC, but it deadends there, have to add
> > some stuff like the TelPac port to it, also want to add a 411 and 555
> > info server to it, along with some more RF ports and links to other
> > sites.
> >
> 
> Chuck,
> Some how, some way I need to get more solid information about what is going
> on with Packet and FADCA.
> I started messing with packet because our club had a MFJ 1278 TNC setting
> idle and nobody interested.
> Since then I have obtained a Katronics KPC3+ for my own station. I was able
> for a while to get some help from Bob N4WFH but not lately. Besides myself, our
> club president WU9T has packet, but not set up all the time and I am sure if
> it was presented in the correct manor we could get the club setup as a BBS.
> All I know about packet, and that is very little I have learned the hard way
> and at my age it has not been easy.
> Last night I was NCS for the Eagle Net. We had 3 pcs. of traffic, 1 routine
> and a book of three welfare for Naples Fl. I could not move it becouse I did
> not have a voice station on freq that could take traffic for Naples. For that I
> need a route down the West Coast.
> I have been able to connect to the SEDAN net work and before all the storms
> the Peace River Network but I have not had much luck with Tampa.
> As a point of information. Our club meets the first Wed. of the month at 3:00
> in the North Campus on Cherry Hills Drive.
> _____________________________________

Virgil,
Gary and I need to get down there and pay you a visit. Right now the
connectivity
is down to Sarasota and Arcadia, the link beyond Arcadia is down. But there is a
BBS in the Sarasota area, you can get to the switch at either Tampa or Sarasota,
as you are probably about equidistant from both of them.

Perhaps Doug Christ can give you a bit more guidance as the BBS link to w4dph
is down (on the DPH end) and so we have not been able to bring that one back up.
We will have to bring a BBS up elsewhere in the Tampa area if the DPH system
is down.

Also once the TelPac node is up and running you will be able to use Airmail and
move traffic that way. We are scrounging a computer for that app right now, all
we will have to do is install Win2k on it and then install the telpac
software and
the wire link between it and a port on the switch at the Hillsborough EOC. That
done you will have another avenue to move traffic.



-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."