[WIham] La Crosse Area FM Simplex Net Thursday Nite

[Dave, WV9E]

KB9KTD - HUBER-LAN - EQ-REPAIR  Greetings all:

The LaCrosse area 146.46 Thursday net starts at 8:30 pm CST.  

Topic this week:
  Would a 24-7 packet bulletin board be a useful tool in the area?  .
  Talking points:
  1.Could be run in aprs fashion, ie unconnected packets moreless like an
open chat room at times and a message board other times.   
 2. I know many of you have a tnc just sitting there, and 5 watts will cover the valley basin well as recent nets/events have shown. 
 3. If you don't have a tnc you can use sound card mode, even w/ just a 
  scanner you can monitor and decode packets w/ a simple telnet client. 
 4. Would such a packet net be better having nodes or a main BBS / mailbox?
 5. Would it be best to simply start out w/ Winlink or something else? 


The ARRL Sept. VHF contest is coming up...  only 9 days away.. time to hang that 6 meter dipole or that new 2 meter loop...  

 Hope to  hear you on the air and have a safe holiday weekend.

73,

Dave, WV9E