<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>I'm currently in Boise, ID for business, and I wanted to pass along to the local operators how impressed I am with the local APRS network. Within 10 minutes of getting off the plane, I had the local repeater tone and freq, knew where the igates were, knew when the local net and meetings were, knew where the EOC was, and generally felt "welcome" in terms of ham radio.</div><div>This city has it going on, and if the other areas managed by NWAPRS are half as good, everyone else in the country needs to be looking Northwest to see how it's done right.</div><div>The only flaw I found was that I couldn't get packets back from AVRS. I did a query for the closest echolink node, and I saw that the server got it, acked, and replied with "<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">147.060MHz T100 EL#522043 2.90 miles" which is what I wanted, but that never made it </span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">back to my D72 in my hand.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(254, 255, 254); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">The comment on the local Igate W7RET-10 is "GATING TO RF…IF YOU ARE ON THE LIST" so apparently I'm not on the list.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(253, 255, 253); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(253, 255, 253); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Aside from the missing inet->RF piece, I'm tickled to be in a strange and distant land with all the comforts of home. :)</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(253, 255, 253); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(252, 255, 252); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">John Gorkos</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(251, 255, 250); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">AB0OO</span></div></body></html>