3 May
2001
3 May
'01
7:10 p.m.
From: Megan <mbg(a)world.std.com>
That and Amateur radio still has rules regarding commercial and third
party
traffic.
Reminds me of the linkages I did 30 years ago with copper lines (phone).
same old thing.
Allison
>Have you seen http://www.irlp.net/? They are linking local amature
radio
>networks together using the internet as a backbone.
Not 20 or 40
meter,
but interesting
non-the-less.
Heard about it for the first time today, talking with drive-time
friends on the local 2m repeater. One person was quite enthused,
but others were somewhat hesitant -- "It's not real ham radio, since
you use the internet for the real hop" and "Why not just use your
cell phone, it's no different."