I know there are several people that run packet BBS not sure what freq they use.
You could probably find out in the ham radio forum.

what do you mean by several? how many?

i dont know any person in my entire life who visited a packet radio bbs

Back in the 90's, I knew a few guys that ran packet boards on 2m and if I remember correctly, they were all 9600 baud TNC's which and I believe still is the maximum speed you can achieve? Not a HAM myself.

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Re: Re: BBSing the alternativ
By: Zylone to MRO on Wed Sep 29 2021 03:59 pm

i dont know any person in my entire life who visited a packet radio bbs

Back in the 90's, I knew a few guys that ran packet boards on 2m and if I remember correctly, they were all 9600 baud TNC's which and I believe still is the maximum speed you can achieve? Not a HAM myself.

yeah it's slow. it's something that they talked about. i doubt anybody ever called one.
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On 9/27/2021 12:59 AM, Arelor wrote:

i'm not sure if they are still popular. we just knew they were popular like >> years ago. maybe i will try to visit some and see how many people are
connected.

I don't know about China, but I have seen it mentioned than in South East Asia
they have their own BBS ecosystem which is quite strong. In fact I found a list
of Asian BBS somewhere. It seems they are very popular in Thailand.

I know there are a lot of asian boards registered to use .bbs.io since I
put it on freedns.afraid.org for dyndns use.
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On 9/27/2021 4:33 AM, Ksource wrote:

I don't know about China, but I have seen it mentioned than in South East
Asia they have their own BBS ecosystem which is quite strong. In fact I
found a list of Asian BBS somewhere. It seems they are very popular in
Thailand.

Let me know if you remember or find anything. I'm really curious about that. If nothing else, it would be wild to see ANSI art in their codepage, ha.

Just guessing most of it is going to be UTF-8 at this point.
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On 9/27/2021 1:04 PM, Dumas Walker wrote:

You can run a BBS with HAM Radio.

But can people without a HAM license access them legally? I asked
once and was told no.

Sure they can... just not over the air... nothing stopping someone from
also having the BBS available via telnet or dialup.
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On 9/28/2021 9:11 AM, Nightfox wrote:

My dad is a HAM radio operator, and I've always heard it's customary
to announce your HAM radio license so people know you're legally able
to use HAM radio. If you're running a BBS or connectiong to a BBS
over HAM radio, I'm not sure how that would be verified.

My understanding is that electronic/automated communications need to
signal their license id every N minutes (5 iirc), similar for
station/channel overlays on broadcast tv.

For packet radio, guessing that if it isn't this way already, you could
sign your data signal with a license id.
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10-04-21 05:23 Tracker1 wrote to Dumas Walker about Re: BBSing the alternativ Howdy! Michael,

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On 9/27/2021 1:04 PM, Dumas Walker wrote:

You can run a BBS with HAM Radio.

But can people without a HAM license access them legally? I asked
once and was told no.

Sure they can... just not over the air... nothing stopping someone from also having the BBS available via telnet or dialup.

I have a License to Operate a Ham Radio Station, W9ODR.

Around the mid 1970's there were some local Ham Radio BBS's that I
logged on to using Radioteletype on the 2 Meter VHF Ham Band.

Those BBS's were for Licensed Amateur Radio Operators only, if I
had a visitor in the Radio Room, after I Logged on one of the BBS's
I could allow them to use the Keyboard as a Third Party Operator
(That is permitted by F.C.C. Part 97 regulations since I am the
Control Operator).

There wasn't any telephone access to those BBS's.

After I bought a C=64, 1541 FDD and 300 Baud VICModem in 1984
a Ham Radio Friend told me a telephone number for a L/L BBS and
I've been using BBS's since then, first on Dial Up, now by using
the internet.

Later, a local Ham had a HF Packet Radio BBS on 20 Meters Packet
and had another Packet Radio BBS on 2 Meters that I used every day,
until my wife told me to unhook those unsightly Antenna wires I had
running out of the room and through the hall way.

The BBS I use has a Dial-Up line, but isn't a local call for me so
I use DSL now and the Home Phone isn't tied up when I'm Logged On
to the BBS.

In 2006 I got this XP pc and later learned how to get QWK Packets
from this BBS by using a Batch file to run a FTP Script.

Yep!, I'm lazy, I type a few keys and press Enter, and PUSH PULL
CLICK CLICK, I get my BBS FIX.

Another Batch file is used to send REP packets to the BBS.

73 (Best Regards) de (From) Ed W9ODR dit dit


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