[FADCA] Lost another one to Dia Tec!

[bud thompson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles S Schuman" <k4gbb at earthlink.net>
To: "FADCA - News Reflecter" <fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 12:17
Subject: [FADCA] Lost another one to Dia Tec!


> It looks like the ROSE stack @ MRMC in Ocala is
> SK! Mike, kq4pp, says the equip took a direct hit and wiped out the whole 
> mess! He also reported that the hosp has other plans for that area and 
> wasn't open to having replacment gear installed.
>
> I haven't seen anything out of The Villages for over a month.
>
> Other than my linux test facilities, Telpac node and BBS there is no other 
> packet service in Citrus/Marion Counties.
>
> While I think of it... It appears that the linux mkiss don't like BPQkiss. 
> I am able to use the Tiny2 kiss w/o any pbms - other than the TNC has to 
> be restarted after each boot. If I hang a TNC w/ BPQkiss on the same cable 
> it talks to the puter, but has no TXD. I'm guessing that Chuck, kp4djt, 
> had simular pbms and as a result went to 6pac.
>
> <<Charlie>>
>     k4gbb
>
>

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>From bud N0IA

Losing the site in Ocala is not the direction in which we want to go!  Dan 
KA0OXH is nearly ready to put Clermont /Lake County LAN on the air and the 
next step is to backbone north to Ocala!  N3PPC and I are working on radios 
for Russ N4KOX that will go in sites North, NW and NE of Ocala and will be 
expecting Ocala to be on the air! Arrrgh!

Mike- What can be done to mitigate this? This would be a major loss to our 
efforts to refurbish the network! (Can you attend the upcoming FADCA 
Technical Conference in Sanford on April 30?)  We have some 'hospital' 
connections in Seminole, Orange, and Lake Counties... is it possible those 
might help?

> I haven't seen anything out of The Villages for over a month.

Ed W5TWR has been the main mover/shaker there and I know he has been in/out 
of town having new grandbabies and other family obligations.

Ed- can you step in here and comment?

We gave our E-mail Over Ham Radio in Support of EMCOMMs dog and pony show in 
Tavares shortly after the hurricanes, in the Villages in January (?) and in 
Eustis at the Lake County EOC in March. I had the impression the LAKE COUNTY 
and SUMTER COUNTY ARES groups will be working on getting folks on packet 
(Paclink AGW and/or Airmail) and putting up Telpac nodes.  I'm hoping that 
some of the more interested folks from the LAKE COUNTY ARES will attend the 
FADCA Technical Conference.  (It is less than 70 minutes drive.) Tom KD4WOV 
indicated that would be likely once I published the full agenda.

> Other than my linux test facilities, Telpac node and BBS there is no other 
> packet service in Citrus/Marion Counties.

Hang in there, Charlie!  Catherine K4EMC in VERY REMOTE Inglis which is in 
Levy County only 0.2 mile out of Citrus County is anxious to get connected 
to the network.  Late last year N3PPC and I set her up with Airmail and 
Paclink AGW, but she is so far from any network node that it doesn't do her 
any good on vhf packet. She doesn't have sufficient HF experience / training 
to use the Airmail on HF effectively.  She has 'connections' there with her 
ARES EC that might help generate some interest.  It might prove fruitful for 
you and Catherine to get together and see if you can bring her in to your 
packet service and get involved.

Catherine - any chance you can attend the FADCA Technical Conference in 
Sanford (12 miles north of Orlando) on April 30?  Perhaps you and Charlie 
K4GBB could carpool. (k4gbb at earthlink.net <k4gbb at earthlink.net>)

> While I think of it... It appears that the Linux mkiss don't like BPQkiss. 
> I am able to use the Tiny2 kiss w/o any pbms - other than the TNC has to 
> be restarted after each boot.

N3PPC and I are not that far along with LINUX FPAC for me to respond (N3PPC- 
can you?)  However, I recall that Chuck KP4DJT was concerned about TNCs in 
their (native) kissmode not being able to stay there!  I have determined 
that the AEA/Timewave PK96 will stay there for a fact in DOS FPAC.  We use 
KISS 0$B mode for DOS FPAC and it works swell, and works every time.

73,
bud N0IA
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