[Sderby] Radio licences

[Simon Hales]

Hi

If you have a Linux box and a radio license you can attach a packet
radio modem to your serial port and have fun on the packet radio
network.  I was given a packet radio modem a while back, but have never
got round to playing with it.

Would definitely be interested in a radio license, will listen on the
list for more details.

As far as I know, packet radio is a slow (i.e. old fashioned 2400 or
9600 baud serial port speed) wide area network, like a primitive
Internet.  Although each packet radio modem has only a limited range,
many places (such as Derby University I think) run packet radio
repeaters, so you can get access to a very big network with a lot
of users all over the UK.  There are even packet radio gateways to the
Internet, so you do things like reading your sderby list mail on a
packet radio link.

Regards

Simon Hales



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On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Ashley Heath wrote:

>On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 23:06:22 +0100
>hemstock@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Just a quick straw pole, how many LUG members would be interested in getting
>>
>> an ameture radio licence of one form or another?
>>
>> Mike.
>>
>
>Does it cost anything and what can I do with it? Suspect I have only seen the tip of the iceberg at the LUG meets.
>
>Ash
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