[FADCA] Re: Telpac Gateway

[bud Thompson]

See my bottom posting . . .
----- Original Message ----- 
From: seelyf at aol.com
To: budt at cfl.rr.com
Cc: seelyf at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 13:54
Subject: Telpac Gateway


Hello Bud,

    Thanks to you, my understanding of WL2K has grown to the extent that we 
are now ready to establish a Telpac Gateway at the Highlands County EOC in 
Sebring, FL.  We have a few questions before we bring the gateway up:

1.  Do you have a recommended frequency for our location here in central 
Florida?  Contacts with FADCA did not result in a frequency assignment. 
Since current Florida Telpac Gateways are nonexistent in the mid 145 mhz 
range, would 145.570 (or nearby) appear to be a good choice for us?  There 
is a local packet net on 144.970 so we wanted to stay clear of that 
frequency.  Any thoughts or suggestions about choosing a frequency would be 
welcome.

2.  May we have permission to use the N0IA Telnet server?  During our 
testing, this server has been totally reliable.

3.  Do non-WL2K stations cause any problems if they connect to the Telpac 
station?

Thanks,
Fred Seely  AA4ME

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Hi, Fred - Glad you are moving things along there in your area.

1.  I don't see an existing 2M LAN in your part of the state, but we need to 
get some others on the fadca at mailman.qth.net who are closer to the ground 
truth than I am to respond before I make a recommendation for a LAN 
frequency there.  Normally, there is an FPAC switch that supplies a 2M LAN 
frequency for access to the network.

In the absence of such - I recommend trying to work an arrangement with the 
144.970 'packet net' folks as that must be where anyone who is on packet is! 
This would, hopefully, provide more packet folks an introduction/access to 
the WL2K system rather than just going off on a frequency where no one else 
is.

2. Freel free to use the N0IA Telnet server for your Telpac Node. . . I 
suggest using two out of state PMBOs as your #2 and #3.

3. If a keyboarder connects to the Telpac node it just responds like a BBS. 
The keyboarder needs to know the keybaord commands for using the Telpac 
node- which can be learned by using the H(elp) command.  Telpac supports 
keyboard connects, but it is terribly slow that way!  Best that users have 
Paclink AGW or Airmail (fully automatic links) or at least have the message 
in a file and upload/send the file once the inital TO: is set up.

If you need any help in setting up terminal programs (Winpack) to make that 
semi-automatic let me know.

G. L.
73,

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