It has, Alessio. Here's why:
My daughter started college a few months ago. For several months prior
to going, she managed to contact a number of other kids going to the
same school, via IM and Facebook. When we were driving her there, she
made the comment "it will be really neat to finally meet the kids I've
been talking to for the last few months." That line sounded eerily
familiar to my early days in amateur radio, prior to attending a local
hamfest or Dayton.
73,
Barry W2UP
Alessio Sacchi wrote:
> ....
>
> and someone still says that Internet has killed amateur radio....
>
> ....
>
> 73,
> Alessio
>
> 2007/10/7, Barry <w2up3@verizon.net>:
>
>> In 1986, when I lived in NH about 10 miles from AK1A, there was the PCBS
>> (Packet Conference Bulletin System.) One stand-alone "node," 8-10
>> users, and that was it.
>> Barry W2UP
>>
>> Richard DiDonna NN3W wrote:
>>
>>> I remember back in about '88 or '89 when the San Diego DX Club was
>>>
>> connected
>>
>>> to the Southern Cal DX Club, and we were trying to find a path to the
>>> Northern Arizona group. Maybe 7 to 10 nodes, and maybe 100 users total.
>>>
>>> 73 Rich NN3W
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
>>> To: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
>>> Cc: "CQ Contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
>>> Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 4:06 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How big is the DX cluster?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I mis-spoke. There was bug in CC Cluster which caused an explosion of
>>>> the number of nodes, the real number is below:
>>>>
>>>> Cluster: 392 nodes 304 Locals 3169 Total users Uptime 2
>>>>
>> days 0:59
>>
>>>> Still, that's an impressive number of users!
>>>>
>>>> I put a snapshot of this on the web site:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.dxcluster.info/Oct-06-2007.htm
>>>>
>>>> 73 - Jim AD1C
>>>>
>>>> Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Dirk G1TLH and Lee VE7CC have been working on improving the
>>>>> communication between DX Cluster nodes (DX Spider and CC Cluster,
>>>>> respectively). Check out the message I just saw when I logged into
>>>>>
>> W0MU:
>>
>>>>> Cluster: 805 nodes 8 Locals 3799 Total users Uptime 1 days 0:28
>>>>>
>>>>> I remember the days when there were about 50 nodes and 300+
>>>>>
>> users. This
>>
>>>>> is an order of magnitude larger!
>>>>>
>>>>> Way to go, guys!
>>>>>
>>>>> Instead of ANN/FULL, try TALK instead, even if the user isn't visible
>>>>>
>> to
>>
>>>>> your node. It just might work!
>>>>>
>>>>> 73 - Jim AD1C
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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