On 9/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">William McKeehan</b> <<a href="mailto:mckeehan@mckeehan.homeip.net">mckeehan@mckeehan.homeip.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I'm really looking for reasons to give someone to NOT put a packet node (BBS<br>or just PBBS) on 144.39.</blockquote><div><br>Watch how busy a channel becomes when people try to connect:<br><br>Connecting to something that isn't there = 10 packets in a couple minutes.
<br><br>Now add a digi that you need to get anywhere more than 10 miles around you: 20 packets and this all in 5 minutes or so.<br><br>This is one station I'm talking about ;-)<br><br>The APRS design doesn't work for conventional packet. I recall that this all started on
145.01 and channelized because of congestion in the late '80s<br><br>73 de Pat --- KA9SCF.<br></div><br></div>