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From: Jim Bryant <jbryant@argus>
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Subject: Re: question about X.25 drivers
To: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 00:55:50 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970414211442.26057C-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> from "Brian N. Handy" at Apr 14, 97 09:16:47 pm
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> From: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>

sounds like Ft. Worth will be a boom town again!!!

F-22

> You write [previous flames deleted...]
> >
> >almost everyone on this list could probably get the capability for a
> >few hundred dollars [one-time cost] and a day or two of studying for
> >the license...  nodes exist in almost every major city on the planet,
> >as well as the arctic, antarctic, every ocean, countless satellites,
> >as well as a certain manned space station, not to mention the radio
> >backbones which criss cross BFE in almost every country on the planet
> >[except maybe N. Korea], even where phone service is nonexistant...
> 
> Hey, maybe you've sold me!  (I have my Advanced license and I haven't used
> it in quite a while.)

don't waste it!

> Is there a book (better) or a web page (worse) you could point me at to
> understand better what this is all about?  Is this packet we're talking
> about?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> brian
> KA7SKW

yeah!  for starters, try www.tapr.org...  the ARRL has books on the
subject too..

www.kantronics.com is another...

jim
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