[FADCA] 60 ways to love Ur lever!

[bud thompson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles S Schuman" <k4gbb at earthlink.net>
To: "FADCA - News Reflecter" <fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 10:51
Subject: [FADCA] 60 ways to love Ur lever!


> After all that foolishness with Telpac..
> Bud now has 20 ways to connect to 5 telpac nodes.
> Do you think a user can remember one of them?
> Does it matter which one they access? Does Bud get more Glory if his is 
> accessed more than everyone elses? Of course I'm being silly!
>
> At this point I would like to suggest that we drop the application for
> the specific call and use only the Telpac entry. I've learned that too 
> many options causes indecision. A user might remember the address and the 
> name of the node (telpac), but asking them to remember a call/ssid would 
> over-tax an already burdened bio-computer. ;-)
>
> <<Charlie>>
>    k4gbb

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Awww.... you take all the fun out of learning!  For me with my new toy and 
users!

We certainly need back up Telpac nodes on the LANs in case the Linux switch 
looses internet connection... or perhaps we could have the Linux re-direct 
to one of the Telpac nodes on the LAN if internet connection is lost.

With the advent of the Linux-based Telpac we certainly don't need near as 
many other TelPacs out on the LANs as we originally thought  -that is for 
sure, but we certainly need some.  Some of those need to be reasonably 
accessible w/o going through the LAN switch in case the entire switch is 
down.  For the most part those would be at EOCs which are generally more 
hardened than hams' QTHs.

I'll clean up my act on my new toy, - but likely wait until after 
Hamcation - I'm a tad gun-shy this close.

By the way - in the past week this Linux FPAC has stopped running twice! 
Once just about 20 minutes ago (about 1040 Feb 7) - the monitor would not 
show anything, Putty on my Windows machine could not get in, and no response 
to RF connects.... Rebooted okay.  Last Friday I found the computer OFF! 
I'd really rather blame one of the cats for having tripped on the AC cord 
than the computer!

bud