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From: N1URO@N1URO.#CCT.CT.USA.NOAM
To : HOBBY@WW
Danny et al;
I was involved with the 70's CB craze until the QRM made it impossible to
communicate with someone in your own yard. I operated a magmount and a
mobile on a power supply which did OK for around town and the surrounding
towns... however my desires was for commercial freqs not amateur or citizen
band freqs with a goal of dethrowning a gent whom I ended up working with
that had ratings unheard of in the industry. He was on a 50Kw station while
I was on a dinky 500w station. In the course of a year or so, I had nudged
him out of the top slot by 2/10ths of a point.
From there I went onto commercial FM freqs and enjoyed similar success for
years that followed. Unfortunately, I saw the industry turning to the worse
case scenario (100% computer controlled and operated) and decided to learn I.T.
By the mid 90s I was on my way teaching myself about them, and asking the
right people the right questions to learn from while doing retail at our
local rat shacks (another thing of the past it seems).
I ended up working with a gent who was a ham that had an approved SAREX
project and he needed my assistance. In helping out he insisted I get my ham
license and that I'd enjoy packet since it appeared to be a good fit for me.
NASA informed us we'd have a 5-7 minute window but with my audio skills from
working commercial radio we ended up getting a 13-14 minute window - double
what we were told! NASA was so impressed they wanted a full inventory report
of the gear that was used. Most of it was home brewed. I even made audio
patches for the local media who covered the event.
Shortly there after I was given study guides and ended up taking the no-code
tech/tech plus exams. I purchased my first TNC and explored the basic user
functions of packet before moving onto MSYS. My dear friend now SK Mac
Harper W1FYM spent quite a bit of time elmering me in PBBS forwarding, and
basic inter-node networking. He filled a major hole for me that my ARRL
membership critically failed at (which to this day they still do). Around
1996ish K2MF and N4GAA arrived at my place and installed a copy of MFNOS
on a PC I put OS/2 Warp on, and before I knew it, MFNOS and IP were working
on my system. They also made a case to WB6CYT to have me be an amprnet
coordinator which I've had since.
The following year, WA1TNR had me over for pizza under the stipulation I
brought a box with a blank hard drive in it with me. We had our pizza and
he installed a copy of Debian 1.0 via 3.5" floppy disks. When finished he
told me to back it up and just kick the tires - and if I messed it up just
restore from the backup. From there, I learned apache, ircd, ftpd and other
things to the point where I began to work on C with K2MF on MFNOS and
URONode eventually came to be. From there, I finished off YO2LOJ's project
by the insistance of N1XTB which is known as axMail-FAX, htppu, ax25xmpp (with
YO2LOJ), and other tid bits I think are handy in the packet community.
I was offered to join EastNet, NEDA, and NETCPA where I succeeded as President
when K2MF stepped down, and more recently President of EastNet. I offer code
to the LinFBB project and JNOS2 projects. I'm unable to offer code to those
closed-source projects however. I've always viewed closed sourced projects as
a red flag because you're at the mercy of the coder when your station fails
but with open source if it's broke you can fix it.
That's the "history" from here...
73
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