[FADCA] Re: Telpac Gateway

[Doug Christ]

There is about 15 miles between the FPAC switch to the EOC site.

Doug/KN4YT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bud Thompson" <budt at cfl.rr.com>
To: "Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association" 
<fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: <seelyf at aol.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [FADCA] Re: Telpac Gateway


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> ----- 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
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>> 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 --
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> * * *
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> 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.
>
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