[FADCA] Re: TELPAC

[Chuck Hast]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 10:44:56 EST, Kg4fcd at aol.com <Kg4fcd at aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 1/1/2005 4:00:27 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> fadca-request at mailman.qth.net writes:
> 
> > Virgil,
> > I am going to try to integrate one into a Linux FPAC switch, I hope to
> > try to do so
> > next week, so if you can not get it going you will still be able to
> > get to one on the
> > network.
> >
> 
> Chuck,
> Thanks for the information.
> This is what is bugging me. Mostly my background as a Trouble shooting
> Programmer.
> I have a good computer. Kantronics KPC3, a five wire com cable and think I
> have setup the software correctly (maybe not) but I followed the instructions
> yet it does not work like it should.
> It is not that I need the node because I don't. I can get to Tampa with plain
> packet, but I have the equipment and my mind says it needs to work and it
> will before I am done.
> 73

That is what makes us tick in this hobby, making something work, even if it
brings the ire of everyone around us down on our head, but we KNOW when
we finish WHY it works. Sort of the reverse of something that fixes it's self, I
WANT to know WHY it broke, and fix it even it if APPEARS to have fixed it's
self.

-- 
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."