[Xastir] IGating

Earl Needham needhame1 at plateautel.net
Sat Aug 25 20:14:49 EDT 2007


At 05:43 PM 8/25/2007, James Ewen wrote:
>On 8/25/07, Earl Needham <needhame1 at plateautel.net> wrote:
> > At 03:20 PM 8/25/2007, James Ewen wrote:
> > >It's really hard to make good comments on a system that you can only
> > >observe via the APRS-IS, without any knowledge of the local terrain.
> >
> >         Wow, it's GREAT to see somebody finally acknowledge
> > this!  I've been trying to tell people that for maybe 10 years over
> > on the APRSSIG and they just don't seem to get it.
>
>Earl, your memory is short... We've been over this before.
>
>You just want to see all that activity way out in the boonies where
>you live. You need to move to the big city so you can live in an
>overloaded network.
>
>Some people would love to have a few seconds of Clovis activity levels
>every minute. 8)

         I know that's 100% right!  I guess I'm fortunate that all I 
can see from here are about 20 digipeaters around the state of New 
Mexico, and perhaps a dozen stations when everything works "right".

         7 3
         Earl

KD5XB -- Earl Needham
Clovis, New Mexico DM84jk
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw_bugs
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