[MEham] Moving to Aroostook County

[Harold Hartley]

Mark Cobbeldick [KB4CVN] wrote:

>Hi Harold,
>Thanks for the info.   :o) 
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>The YL and I have been considering moving up since 1989.  We just
>returned from a family member's wedding up in Littleton (4m N of
>Houlton) and that cinched it.  We are moving !!!
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>Now the hard part; Jobs.
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I wish you luck with the jobs, but I'm sure there is something up that way.

>>From the repeater directories I have seen, it looks like most of the
>simplex/repeater traffic is on two-meters.  Is that a fairly good
>assessment?  COMMENTS ANYONE?
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There is some repeaters on 220 or 440 bands, but very scattered. Look in 
the repeater directory.

>Active on 160m (cw/am/ssb) through 921 MHz (fm).  
>Real heavy into 10m-FM dx.  
>But mostly use 70cm for local comms and chit-chat with the YL.  
>
>If my guess is correct, I will need to scrounge up some more 2m mobile
>gear prior to the move, since 70cm appears nil in the north-end.
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>PACKET: 
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>Never got too interested in the mode. (Too close the the mobile data
>stuff I delt with at work.)  HOWEVER, this could be subject to change
>once I move.   Got the PC's.  Got the radio gear.  ...And one of my
>cohorts down here is 'Buck' Rogers [K4APT] who runs the SEDAN network.
><http://www.sedan.org/>  Buck manufactures and sells the 'RASCAL GLX'
>TNC's.  So I can purchase all the packet TNC goodies I would need prior
>to the move up.
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>The digital mode I have been interested in tinkering with is SITOR-B. 
>This same interface Buck sells will also support that mode with the
>correct software, which I found last winter.
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I run a node/bbs and gateway here in lewistn, Maine and have been trying 
to get others interested in setting up nodes or digi's like flexnet or 
xnet...
Xnet will work on a eprom for a tnc3 as some places in new england have 
such nodes like that.
Xnet is compatible with netrom, tcp/ip and flexnet digi's...

Hope to hear some good stuff about up north when you move there...

Harold