[FARC] FARC Meeting Topic

[Kirk Talbott]

Hello all, I know the plate is pretty much full for our upcoming FARC meeting but I have another topic idea for a meeting which follows along with the planned agenda items of NTS traffic handling and digital.  My ARRL Operating Manual says you can access Packet NTS traffic bulletin boards and receive and transmit NTS messages via Packet.  Just curious as to how this works.  

The ARRL Operating Manual says, "After logging on to your local NTS-supported bulletin board, type the command LT, meaning List Traffic.  The BBS will sort and display an index of all NTSXX traffic awaiting delivery. "  Do we have a local NTS-supported Packet bulletin board?

Once you get to your local NTS-supported Packet bulletin board you supposedly can receive traffic by issuing the RT (read traffic) command and the message number.  The operating manual says you can send NTS traffic with Packet via the ST (send traffic) command.  The whole process looks rather involved and if someone knows how to do it a demonstration   might be interesting.  

or

Is the process of sending NTS-Traffic via Packet extremely outdated and nobody does this anymore?

I know if I had my druthers and I had to receive and send NTS traffic, I would rather sit at a computer and receive and send NTS-traffic at my own leisure rather than trying to listen to another Ham rattle off NTS-Traffic form items over the radio.  With the almost universal use of computers and Ham radio, I'm surprised there isn't NTS-Traffic handling software that can interface with Packet NTS-Traffic BBS's to do this very thing.  I mean AIRMAIL software does Internet E-mail via Packet, why not NTS-Traffic?

73
KB3ONM
Kirk

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