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Taking Another Look at Packet Radio 6 years 8 months ago #779

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WILLIAM T NIENAJADLY (W4KYR)
Hebron, Kentucky
June 12, 2017

In the late 1980's through the mid 1990's packet radio was all the rage. Amateur radio operators could send email to other hams across the state, across the country or even to other countries. Instead of texting with your phone, you did keyboard to keyboard text on the ham bands. You could browse bulletin boards, send and receive files and even pictures.

All this was done over radio without the benefit of the Internet or cell towers. In fact you didn't even need to be anywhere near a cell tower and even need commercial power. You could run your entire packet radio station on 12 volts. You didn't need a sophisticated computer; in fact you didn't even need a PC!

So lets take a peek back at packet radio through this ten part series from the 'Denver Radio Packet Class' so can get a close up look at packet radio in action. These professionally done videotapes were shot in early 1992 at the very height of the 'packet radio revolution'!

READ MORE AT LINK BELOW



SOURCE: eham.net
"www.eham.net/articles/38955"

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