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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Randolph,</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The Tacoma club is W7DK. My father
(K7CZM, SK) held various offices in it circa 40 years ago. Both W7DK
and the Puyallup club (W7HZ?) used to get impressive scores every
field day. The Puget-Sound basin has been, and presumably still is,
well populated with amateur radio clubs. I went to the Mike and Key
web site</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.mikeandkey.org/">http://www.mikeandkey.org/</a></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">because they've often served as an
umbrella organization compiling such things as the functioning VHF
repeaters in the Puget-Sound area, ham fests & swap meets, and so
fifth.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I'll check W7DK's information.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.w7dk.org/">http://www.w7dk.org/</a></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">BTW, circa 1971 I did summer relief
broadcast engineer (in the same sense railroad engineers are
engineers) work for KTNT-TV channel 11 when it was owned by the
Tacoma News Tribune.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Best regards,</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Steven</p>
<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 11/3/08, Randolph Bentson <i><bentson@holmsjoen.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Randolph Bentson <bentson@holmsjoen.com><br>Subject: Re: [Gslug-general] Wireless & Linux<br>To: "Michael_Faraday" <steven_coles@yahoo.com><br>Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 8:07 PM<br><br><pre>On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:59:05PM -0800, Michael_Faraday wrote:<br>> All,<br>> <br>> A Wisconson amateur radio club<br>> indicates that state has a packet-radio backbone with activity on<br>> amateur radio bands from 50 through 1300 MHz. I went to the Mike and<br>> Key web site to get an idea of Puget-Sound amateur-radio packet and<br>> digital activity. Usually, I find what I'm looking for at Mike and<br>> Key. This time I found only outdated Relay Newsletter articles.<br>> <br>> Where should I look for
Puget-Sound<br>> amateur-radio packet information? Is Linux a major player among<br>> amateur radio operators here?<br>> <br>> Currently, I have only a<br>> technician+-class license. What I've heard on HF doesn't give me<br>the<br>> slightest motivation to get a general-class license. Packet under<br>> Linux could be a different story.<br><br>There's an active radio club in Tacoma. I don't know how computer<br>savvy they are. Search old copies of "The News Tribune" for an<br>article. If that doesn't work out, I'll try to hunt through my<br>archives.<br><br>Randolph Bentson<br>bentson@holmsjoen.com<br><br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>