[FADCA] It's not about WL2K - It's about the future of Ham Radio

[K4CJX]

Simple: Look at this.  http://www.winlink.org/B2F.htm  IF6FBB site lists the
earlier B1F. Both have been used on HF/VHF/UHF Packet for years now. But,
Skip has no personal grudge there.

Steve, k4cjx




-----Original Message-----
From: David Calder [mailto:n4zkf at n4zkf.com] 
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 19:44
To: 'bud thompson'; 'Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association'
Cc: 'Steve K4CJX'
Subject: RE: [FADCA] It's not about WL2K - It's about the future of Ham
Radio


 
<snip older notes>

* * *
>Hi, Dave-

>From  "Your beloved Florida Winlink PMBO, Bud, N0IA"

>Yes, that is humorous - I've gained some level of national notoriety 
>due to
Skip Teller and now with FADCA due to your
>notes.

>Skip and I went around on these issues almost a year ago and I never 
>hard
back from him after the third or fourth
>iteration.


Why doesn't that surprise me.



>Oh yeah... and I stand behind my comment one hundred percent.... can 
>Skip,
you, or the other distracters stand behind
>Skip's BS you so quickly mimic?


Now I'm a distracter? Mimic? I thought I was bringing what was going on to
your attention?


>BF2 compression is totally open to the public - Skip knows that and as 
>an
FBB BBS sysop so do you.


I most certainly do. 16 years I have run a FBB bbs. I have learned a little
in that time.


>Anyone, including ( al queda!) can get the algorithms and program a
decoding
>scheme.   That is required by the FCC - but who cares?

>????????? Casual ?????????

>What part of 'casual' monitoring do you and the other distractions and
naysayers not understand?


Well, I think you took me wrong Bud. I wasn't doing any nay saying OR
distracting here. Just trying to keep you informed. You didn't have to
resort to calling me names. Sorry you took me wrong.


>Common, Dave- get with the program.. this is the future of Ham Radio- 
>at
least on HF. Do we want to keep 500Khz bandwidth >as the best we can do for
another ten years?  TNC2 clone firmware is early 1980s technology at best..
>ten years from now it will be almost forty years out of date... That is
more than three decades w/o any changes other
>than to support APRS digipeating!


Well, I don't want to get with the Winlink program if that's what you mean.
It might be someone's cup of tea but it just doesn't do anything for me.
This thread wasn't started to get in a debate with you over WinLink and the
likes. As I said, I was just telling you what was going on out there. I
guess I should have kept it to myself. Like you told me a couple of months
ago. My packet BBS is still good for a "link check".

I think it's time to stop tying up all this "link check" equipment and move
on to something else.

73 Dave
n4zkf