[OKDXA] VHF Packet Cluster

Mon, 02 Dec 2002 15:56:50 -0600

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the advice. I haven't yet found any wireless i-net ISPs that 
serve my area (SE 104th and Anderson RD, about 5 mi SE of Tinker).  I'm 
open to suggestions! The Sprint system reaches my area, but they no longer 
take on new customers and I suspect they're trying to sell their current 
system.  We have no CATV and DSL is not likely in any reasonable time, so 
I'm a bit stuck.  It's a shame that AX.25 packet has gone the way of the 
dodo; for this application, it was quite good.

73,

Kim Elmore, N5OP

At 09:40 AM 12/2/2002 -0800, you wrote:

>Kim, you might check for the availability of one of the wireless i-net 
>servers in your area. I recently got on it here in Burns Flat, 128  k hook 
>up both ways and it's great. $29.95 per month. Down side is $330.00 
>equiptment and hook up fee. It really is glitch free and frees up the 
>phone lines.
>Packett radio is a thing of the past out here. also, there is an internet 
>cluster in Lawton that has very few regular users . 
>kc5nyo.dns2go.com  solid connections.
>73   BILL-W5VW
>  Kim Elmore <[email protected]> wrote:Hi Terry and all that responded,
>
>Thanks for the info. The last time I was truly active was in 1995; in June
>1995, I moved here. I guess I was spoiled while I lived in the Denver area
>because the Mile High DX Association helped maintain a packet cluster that,
>as far as I know, was fed data only from local sources. There were a lot of
>very active DXers in the Denver area. However, I know that the MHDXA had
>gratis help from some engineers who simply enjoyed the challenge of making
>the cluster work, and so footed a fair bit of the load. The cluster was
>state-wide, spanned the Continental Divide and had several nodes
>interconnected with a high-speed 70 cm backbone.
>
>I'm only just becoming active again, and the amount of time I've been able
>free for radio has been disappointingly small. I was aware of Sprint's
>wireless ISP option, but thought that they had stopped expanding the
>service a few months ago; I was unaware that there were any others. We'll
>probably avoid the satellite option for now, though if we ever build a
>house on the land we're buying, we might try it then.
>
>I need a way to avoid using the phone line because my wife is a radiologist
>and has to take call form home. When that happens, we have to leave both
>phone lines open, because she needs to receive images and talk to other
>docs or techs at the same time; the hospital doesn't maintain a way to send
>the images over the internet, so a telephone line is a necessity.
>
>My location isn't ideal for anode and I don't have a particularly tall
>tower (an HDBX48 with 8 ft of steel mast sticking out of the top) so I
>probably wouldn't make a good node site, but would happily entertain one
>otherwise. If we ever build on the land east of Norman, we'd have a better
>site even with that modest tower: it has an unrestricted horizon.
>
>I've been wondering how useful spots from non-local sources are; I suppose
>it could help me anticipate when conditions might open up at my QTH, or
>help me map operating habits of some particular DX, but knowing that MA
>hears something juicy doesn't necessarily mean I'll hear it. On the other
>hand, the more ears, the better.
>
>One of these Mondays, I'll try to check into the 75 m net. Unfortunately,
>6:30 pm is often when we're preparing dinner and so isn't a good time for a
>leisurely anything. I hope you all did well in the CQ WW had a fine
>Thanksgiving!
>
>73,
>
>Kim Elmore, N5OP
>Kim Elmore, Ph.D.
>University of Oklahoma
>Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
>"All of weather is divided into three parts: Yes, No, and Maybe. The
>greatest of these is Maybe" The original Latin appears to be garbled.
>
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                           Kim Elmore, Ph.D.
                        University of Oklahoma
         Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
"All of weather is divided into three parts: Yes, No, and Maybe. The
greatest of these is Maybe" The original Latin appears to be garbled.