[FADCA] Re: Telpac Gateway

[bud Thompson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Hast" <wchast at gmail.com>
To: "Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association" 
<fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: <seelyf at aol.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 18:29
Subject: Re: [FADCA] Re: Telpac Gateway


> On 6/28/06, bud Thompson <budt at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> * * *
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Is he talking about the Lake Placid switch on 144.97? That would be the
> nearest, it is/was a DOS box, perhaps it can be moved to Linux and the
> TelPac app put on it?
>
> -- 
> Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --

* * *

Who knows about the Lake Placid Switch?  If it is within range of the 
Highlands County EOC then 144.97 is where this Telpac Node should be.

bud N0IA