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The first TELNET NEWS/LAND LINE LID THIS WEEK INTERNET PACKET RADIO PHONE BOOK since we resumed publishing on May the 17th of this year. This list will grow and be modified on a regular basis. Bill.> .............................................................................. AWZ AWZNode. BBS Any packet bulletin board system. CB! Citizen Band Internet/packet radio network device. DXC DX packet cluster. FBB Packet Bulletin board system FLX FlexNode. LNO LinuxNode. LNX Linux server. NOD Any node or network device. NOS TCPIP mailbox QSO Convers server. XNT (X)NET Node. XRT XRouter. X1J TheNET node providing TCPIP packet routing. * TheNET node IP address with no telnet access. - Accessible from the Internet. --- I don't know what the device is. .............................................................................. Unless otherwise indicated, the default TELNET port is 23. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ?INTERNET ADDRESS: DOMAIN/ALIAS/CALL-SSID: ORIGINATION POINT XXX:ST:CO: .............................................................................. 24.194.108.23:7300 wz2d.net:7300 Charlton DXC NY US- 24.200.204.199:23 ve2har.dyndns.org:telnet Laval FBB QC CA- 27.137.19.51:23 [NF] NL9CAT:CATNOD Uitgeest CB! NL EU 44.16.2.100 kj6eo.ampr.org Santa Clarita NOS CA US 44.17.0.128 aa6hf.ampr.org Big Bear Lake NOS CA US *44.17.2.200 k6uth.ampr.org El Paso Peak X1J CA US 44.26.2.10:3694 kd7hah.ampr.org:node Salem LNO OR US *44.44.1.1 [NF] WMA:K1FFK Mount Greylock X1J MA US 44.56.11.1 n1xtb.ampr.org Middleboro LNO MA US *44.64.20.1 ppuhf.ampr.org Palisades Park X1J NJ US *44.68.66.20 [NF] WMA220:K1FFK-2 Mount Greylock X1J MA US *44.69.1.132 [NF] #TEST0:W2FE-10 [NF] X1J NY US *44.69.3.133 [NF] FAIRPT:KB2VZS Fairport X1J NY US *44.69.3.148 [NF] FLXFGR:WA2AAZ-1 [NF] X1J NY US 44.80.42.200 w3plc.ampr.org [NF] NOS PA US 44.88.8.2 gw.n4gaa.ampr.org West Haven --- CT US 44.88.8.3 qso.n4gaa.ampr.org West Haven QSO CT US 44.88.8.4 gwp.n4gaa.ampr.org West haven --- CT US 44.88.8.5 jay.n4gaa.ampr.org West Haven --- CT US 44.88.8.7 sw.n4gaa.ampr.org West Haven NOS CT US *44.88.10.1 whaven.n4gaa.ampr.org West Haven X1J CT US 44.88.40.3:3600 dx.n1uro.ampr.org:convers Springfield QSO MA US 44.88.40.3:3694 dx.n1uro.ampr.org:node Springfield FLX MA US 44.88.40.3:9001 dx.n1uro.ampr.org:9001 Springfield DXC MA US 44.88.40.5 n1uro.ampr.org Springfield NOS MA US 44.102.180.17 n8ma.ampr.org Greenville NOS MI US *44.124.41.254 davis.ampr.org Mount Union X1J AZ US 44.131.89.4 g3ugh.ampr.org Newport XRT UK EU 44.131.91.2 gb7pzt.ampr.org Kidderminster BBS UK EU 44.131.91.245 [NF] G8PZT:KIDDER Kidderminster XRT UK EU 44.131.95.240 [NF] GB7GH:GLOS Birdlip --- UK EU 44.131.128.1 g0cng.ampr.org Bloxwich XRT UK EU *44.131.128.81 [NF] DY25:GB7DY-2 Sedgley X1J UK EU *44.131.128.241 [NF] WV12:GB7WV-12 Wolverhampton X1J UK EU 44.131.144.225 napton-uk.ampr.org Napton XRT UK EU 44.131.191.244 [NF] G1NNB Witham XRT UK EU 44.131.200.1 node-g6tjz.ampr.org Bristol XRT UK EU 44.131.202.192 worle-uk.ampr.org Worle LNO UK EU 44.131.220.229 g6hjp.ampr.org Petersfield XRT UK EU 44.134.240.252 iz6ddq.ampr.org Ancona AWZ IT EU 44.134.240.252:41112 iz6ddq.ampr.org:41112 Ancona DXC IT EU 44.135.48.40 ve2har.dyndns.org:telnet Laval NOS QC CA 44.135.48.47 ve2har.ampr.org Laval FBB QC CA- 44.135.85/119 ve3smf.ampr.org [NF] NOS ON CA 44.135.88.3 bbs.ve3con.ampr.org Weston NOS ON CA 44.135.90.42 ve3zda.ampr.org [NF] NOS ON CA 44.136.3.232 dsn-gw.vk1dsn.ampr.org Canberra NOS AU OC 44.136.182.221:3694 gw.vk5asf.ampr.org:node Adelaide LNO AU OC 44.136.227.2 vk7ax.ampr.org Ulverstone NOS AU OC 44.137.24.19 pi5ehv.ampr.org Eindhoven NOD NL EU 44.140.16.12 sm0kbd.ampr.org Kista --- SE EU 44.140.19.45 sm0rux.ampr.org Stockholm LNO SE EU 44.140.212.5 sm6tpn.ampr.org Halmstad LNO SE EU 44.140.249.10 router.sk7hw.ampr.org Vaxjo LNO SE EU 44.140.249.50 pc2.sm7gvf.ampr.org [NF] LNO SE EU 44.142.92.50 [NF] HB9OK-11 Lugano LNX CH EU 44.142.92.50:3600 hb9ok.ticino.com:convers Lugano QSO CH EU 44.143.144.16 oe6xpe.ampr.org Graz XNT CH EU 44.158.27.25 ct1yol.ampr.org [NF] NOS PT EU 44.158.27.48 ct1na.ampr.org [NF] NOS PT EU 44.165.152.192 sr9zaa.ampr.org Krakow NOS PL EU 44.165.152.194 ter2.sr9zaa.ampr.org Krakow --- PL EU 44.178.145.2 ru9czz.ampr.org Ekaterinberg AWZ RU AS 44.178.146.2:41112 ru9czz.ampr.org:41112 Ekaterinberg DXC RU AS 44.180.18.1 4n1zni.ampr.org Nis LNX YU EU 44.180.34.51 gw.yu1re.ampr.org [NF] LNO YU EU 44.180.241.1:41112 [NF] HNDXS:4N6DXC Herceg Novi DXC YU EU 65.37.82.172:4000 kb2txp.net:4000 Bristol DXC NY US- 65.37.82.172:4001 kb2txp.net:4001 Bristol FBB NY US- 65.37.82.172:4002 kb2txp.net:4002 Bristol XRT NY US- 65.110.137.183:23 na2aa.net:telnet Niskayuna DXC NY US- 65.172.152.29:7300 dxusa.net:7300 Ledyard DXC CT US- 81.69.21.131:23 owd-c-f783.adsl.wanadoo. Osterwolde CB! NL EU nl:telnet 82.37.168.34:23 gb7bm.net:telnet West bromwich LNX UK EU- 130.237.41.41:8000 thr-1.math.kth.se:8000 Stockholm DXC SE EU 150.214.127.52:8000 ea7urc.alcavia.net:8000 Cordoba DXC ES EU 160.99.13.109.4000 [NF] 4N1ZNI Nis LNX YU EU- 193.82.116.50:7300 rufus.tubby.org:7300 Worcester DXC UK EU 194.109.199.56:24 loksoft.xs4all.nl:24 Capelle CB! NL EU- 194.109.253.254:35 nl3dhg.xs4all.nl:35 Bezuidenhout CB! NL EU- 194.209.20.49:4000 hb9ok.ticino.com:4000 Lugano LNX CH EU- 195.38.48.61:41112 [NF] RU9CZZ Ekaterinberg DXC RU AS- 195.99.179.242:8000 [NF] HNDXS:4N6DXS Herceg Novi DXC YU EU- 195.66.179.242:41112 [NF] HNDXS:4N6DXC Herceg Novi DXC YU EU- 195.150.10.251 ampr-gw.tl.krakow.pl Krakow NOS PL EU- 195.252.110.149:3694 [NF] KVGATE:4N1ZKL [NF] LNO YU EU- 200.49.157.50:8024 lu6axu.no-ip.org:8024 [NF] FBB AR SA- 203.220.216.184.8023 au6per.cable.nu:8023 Perth CB! AU OC 212.83.148.207:3600 f6ggy.dyndns.org:convers Monflanquin QSO FR EU- 212.83.148.207:8023 f6ggy.dyndns.org:8023 monflanquin XNT FR EU- 212.83.148.207:9000 f6ggy.dyndns.org:9000 Monflanquin DXC FR EU- 212.159.82.101:23 gb7pfd.ath.cx:telnet Petersfield XRT UK EU 213.96.137.53:6300 bbs.ea2rcf.com:6300 Victoria-Gasteiz FBB ES EU- 213.96.137.53:9001 bbs.ea2rcf.com:9001 Victoria-Gasteiz DXC ES EU- 217.129.65.194:3500 [NF] ALENJ:CT2GWZ-4 Beja QSO PT EU- 217.129.65.194:5252 [NF] BEJA:CT2GWZ-8 Beja LNO PT EU- 217.129.65.194:8181 [NF] BEJADX:CT2GWY-5 Beja DXC PT EU- 217.155.251.11:7300 dsl-217-155-251-11.zen. East Dereham DXC UK EU- co.uk 218.224.194.114:41112 linux.figaro.gr.jp:41112 Kyoto DXC JP AS- .............................................................................. gw.yt1ad.ampr.org [NF] LNO YU EU hamgate.org:6300 Sofia FBB BG EU hamgate.org:9000 Sofia DXC BG EU lz0tcp.ampr.org Sofia XNT BG EU nl3dhg.xs4all.nl:23 Bezuidenhout CB! NL EU rijen.ath.cx:2005 [NF] CB! NL EU ut4uwa.ampr.org Kyiv AWZ UA EU ux0ixi.ampr.org Donetsk LNO UA EU ve2rxy.homeip.com:23 Rimouski FBB QC CA vk5spg.ampr.org Adelaide LNO AU OC :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: > The following was originally composed as radio copy for a feature entitled THE RANDOM ACCESS FILE for THIS WEEK IN AMATEUR RADIO for airing on October 25, 2003. For more information on this audio news service, please click on . Bill. ............................................................................ > I remember this little kid. Cute kid. About nine years old. I remember this little kid sitting in the front room at his house at 644 Morris Street which was actually a huge rambling apartment third floor up in the Pine Hills section of Albany. Crouched by the big bay window, tightly gripping a heavy chrome microphone with the big quarter-inch plug jacked into a Roberts upright reel-to-reel tape recorder, he sat there belting out a play-by-play commentary over the fly-in, the fly-by and the fly-away of the glorious Goodyear Blimp , a silver helium-filled, lighter-than-air baggy cigar gliding gracefully high in the starlit skies over the city on a crisp and chilly Friday October evening with its glittering red, yellow, green and blue pinpoints of light that spelled out the word GOODYEAR in giant sparkling letters across its massive broadside. Then I remember remember this other little kid. He's about a year older. About ten. He's feverishly tape-recording the warblings, the chortlings and the singing noises of the Three Amigos coming out of a big beige-colored RCA Color TV three-inch speaker from a NBC show called "The Wonderful World of Disney". He's doing this with the same grey wrinkly-metal clad tape machine with it's light-glinting plastic seven-inch diameter Scotch Brand magnetic tape reels coasting around and around at an amazing seven-and-one-half inches per second. All the funny music, the silly voices and the bang-clang sound effects preserved on a thin quarter-inch slice of acetate plastic and magnetic stuff that the 3M Company called type 111, all of which is basically just coherent rust. Of course, all this this happened some forty years ago and all this courtesy of Dad, who faithfully made the commute upstate every Friday night after work because he lived in the Bronx and who sometimes lugged the twenty-five pound Roberts with him just so some little kid could practice blimp announcing or generate an endless succession of mouth-fart noises or sometimes even secretly spied on Mom and Dad's kitchen conversation using the heavy chrome mike with the big quarter-inch plug jacked into the Roberts all weekend-long. And then there was this other little kid who finally got his own portable Airline tape recorder from Montgomery Ward with the tiny three-inch reels. The big fist-sized microphone was concealed on the front face of the machine which unhinged along with a long thick coily cord, which then could be parked in fromt of the TV in order to snag the cool Hanna-Barbera sounds from Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear and Top Cat plus neato noises from Hollywood flicks like "Forbidden Planet", "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Robinson Crusoe On Mars". All these little kids soon grew up to be me who's talking to you right now. The Roberts machine would eventually return to me and stay with me and finally die with me many years later but not before a succession of other tape recorders came along, like the monster WEBCOR that I borrowed from Kurt Hackel down the block. It never got returned because he and his family moved away and he said he didn't want it anymore. Then there was the Mercury five- inch reel-to-reel portable and another Wards Airline seven-inch reel job - both of which I played and plowed into the ground until no reels would turn anymore. But during the associated tenures of all these machines, many more hours would be spent recording silly sounds off the TV or the sometimes seemingly bizaare noises right outside my bedroom window. The Goodyear Blimp would make many more migrations to our city over the course of a half-score of years and on many occasions, the mike would be thrust out the window to document the low "brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" of the blimp engines. Scary space noises also came in over the crunchy static on a shortwave radio, a big one down at Terry O'brien's house. Terry and his brother Mike had this huge ominous pinewood-finish shortwave radio console with the eerie green tuning eye circa 1940 in their attic bedroom and the WEBCOR was dragged over to archive the weird burbling teletypes, the oodly-doodly howling facsimiles, the impending BEEP..BEEP..BEEP of CHU , the monotonous drone of the WWV and other boinking, beeping and blipping baudot blasts that boodled and oodled their way beyond the heavy cloth speaker and into the microphone. The many hours spent tape recording soon gave way to many more hours spent hunched over a splicing jig, mounted on my little desk which was hand- painted a horrible stark blue color by my well-meaning Mom who felt that wood-aging and antiquing was her personal calling. These hours would be spent carefully slicing and carefully splicing and carefully matching the forty-five degree sliced ends of the tape together with some very sticky milky-white splicing tape, all of which you could get at the Lafayette Electronics store or the Radio Shack. Splicing the tape meant you could connect a bunch of sounds together or maybe shorten or maybe lengthen a song, which seemed a really cool thing to do. And so this became my hobby. At least it was my indoor hobby. I wasn't a total nerd though. I did actually go outside and do the skateboard and sprain my ankle, many times. And I did go and bat the ball and break the window, many times. And other kid stuff like that too. I did also get into the fine art of throwing stainless-steel razor-edged boomerangs with intent to kill... But here, I digress. The concept of sound effects as a hobby was further cast in stone when I chanced to see a 50's vintage George Reeves Superman re-run on the tube where some kid running around with a tape machine collecting sounds actually helps Superman catch some big bad thugs by using the recorded sounds of the Man of Steel flying and landing to drive them crazy. I figured if it was good enough for Superman, .......then it was surely good enough for me. Now of course to our well-meaning but terminally-misdirected though-most- times kindly Certified Social Workers of our latter day, such an activity would be tagged to as "therapy". Because I was a kid doing all this, the CSWs would pencil it in as "play therapy". Basketweaving is therapy. Potholders is therapy. Making a lamp out of some chunks of wood is eighth-grade shop class. Drawing pictures of Boogiemen is not only play therapy but is also disturbing. Manipulating sounds at your very whim is magic. More than a hobby. Beyond an adventure. Magic! Those hours and hours of taping sounds and splicing sounds did become a minor obsession and this is actually how I got into broadcast radio. At the time, my primary goal was to gain access to sound recording equipment and that I did for about twenty years at various radio stations here in New York and Connecticut. Access initially came in the form of big glowing rosy red tube-amplied AMPEX 350s and then the solid-state 440s, Scully 280s and Studer REVOX A77s. To be sure, I loved doing radio. But I loved playing with the sounds even more. A universe of monster ten-inch reel-to-reel tape machines, lead-weight sixteen-inch diameter turntables and audio consoles with audio gain knobs, known to the insiders as "pots". These pots were as big as a stevador's meaty hands, all of which would maintain into the early 1990s when without much fanfare, an IBM 386 with Windows 3.1 and an on-screen virtual production studio-in-a-box called CARD-D materialized. This unseen epiphany unfolded at WROW here in Albany and now things could be done in way not seen before. Play a sound backwards? Click on a tab which said REVERSE. No more physically flipping the tape reels on a full-track tape recorder just to get the same effect. Play a sound at half speed? Click on a tab which said SAMPLING RATE. Change the rate from 44.1 KHz sampling to 22.025 KHz sampling which amazingly equals an analog recording run at half-speed. No more seven-and-a-half or fifteen inches per second mechanical speed switch. But this was only the beginning. Things began to accelerate and began to become far more accessible beyond the professional broadcast or recording studio. Soon, the expesive IBM clone, the obnoxious proprietary software and hardware, indeed the studio itself was no longer restricted to the pages of Broadcasting Magazine but now sat on the shelves at COMPUSA. Another interesting bit of Karma phased in around the same time. A Canadian company called SOUND IDEAS managed to get its corporate fists wrapped around some remarkable and very well-known sound effects libraries. Here was something I had wished for for many decades and now for a few dollars, well, a lot of dollars, all the sounds I used to tape from the TV, all the sounds from Hanna-Barbera, all the sounds from Warner Brothers, all the sounds from Jay Ward were mine for the purchase. Sadly, the original tapes I had recorded those many years ago are gone. Some were lost through moves from place to another but most of them did not survive the decades well. They simply became unplayable through advanced age despite attempts to carefully preserve them. In their stead though, several small brightly-colored boxes with pictures of cartoons on them and each box loaded with many silver digital disks encoded with the very same things I had lost so long ago. They were back. And what's more, while I still have a functioning Studer Revox A77 sitting on the floor in my bedroom, I have do also nine different computers sitting in the living room loaded with various flavours of COOLEDIT and GOLDWAVE available to me at my very mouse-tip. And so that which became my hobby is still my hobby. Now for the purposes of personal survival, I must labor and toil in the beige-colored halls of the communications monster Verizon, which some folks call Vera-zon, and others insist is still Bell Atlantic, still others NYNEX or even worse, New York Telephone. But on a crisp and chilly October evening...or maybe any evening... after my Number One And Only Son Zachary has gone to bed........... And the ex-wife has gone back upstairs to watch the TV............. And someday I might actually explain this arrangement.............. or maybe not. In the evening hours when it's just me and Suzie and Ed, these last two being cats, I sit before a beige-colored computer monitor with the COOLEDIT displayed upon the glowing screen. There is no tape now. No splicing jig. But there is the mouse which works much better and certainly much safer than the razor blade. And sitting on track 30 of the disk which I just this moment slid into the CD player is a two-minute audio clip of the Goodyear Blimp recorded in 1961 by Audio Fidelity Records as it was nosing it's way up the Hudson River, heading due North and on course for little old Albany, New York. And did you know this COOLEDIT has a multitrack feature?? So there's one track for the blimp, And one track for Bill. And I've also got this long, thin plastic Radio Shack microphone right here with the tiny one-eighth inch plug jacked into the computer. Hmmm, what should I say next? -30- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: > LETTERS THIS WEEK IN THE TELNET NEWS/LAND LINE LID THIS WEEK MAILBAG: ............................................................................ > EDITOR'S NOTE: F.Y.I.! From: "Ken Williams" Reply-To: To: Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 22:42:30 +0100 Subject: RE: THE TELNET NEWS/LAND LINE LID THIS WEEK FOR OCTOBER 4, 2003 Just testing my spam filter 73 Ken Williams Email: gw3tmh@gb7abc.net Web Site: http://www.gb7abc.net ............................................................................ From: "Ken Williams" Reply-To: To: Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:02:34 +0100 Subject: RE: THE TELNET NEWS/LAND LINE LID THIS WEEK FOR OCTOBER 11, 2003 I have now posted my latest software effort at www.gb7abc.net It's a spam blocker I have just written to help me learn C# Ken Williams Email: gw3tmh@gb7abc.net Web Site: http://www.gb7abc.net ............................................................................ From: "IW9HFC Angelo" Reply-To: "IW9HFC Angelo" To: Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:49:28 +0200 Subject: TELNET NEWS - ITALY I want to have more info about the TELNET NEWS of ITALY Many thanks in advance IW9HFC Angelo iw9hfc@libero.it iw9hfc@iw7eas.homeip.net (e-mail via packet) www.ariag.tk > Hello Angelo, If by your question you are looking for more coverage of packet radio and Internet devices in Italy, then I shall turn my attention to your part of the world very soon. So stand by for news! Bill.> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: > Who was Doctor Seuss? Those of us who grew up in the 1950's and 1960's will recall this author of popular children's books. Such titles as: THE CAT IN THE HAT, HORTON HEARS A WHO AND GREEN EGGS AND HAM quickly come to mind and while it is more than doubtful that the following short item was penned by Doctor Seuss, it certainly captures his style and flavour. ............................................................................ DR. SEUSS EXPLAINS COMPUTERS If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, And your data is corrupted ...cause the index doesn't hash, Then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash! If the label on your cable on the table at your house Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall, And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss, So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse, Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang Because as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang! When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk, And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk, Then you have to flash your memory, and you'll want to RAM your ROM. Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: > If you are interested in sharing information on global amateur packet radio and amateur Internet devices -or- require additional detail on how to reach a specific locality, then please drop a line to the TELNET NEWS. The request will be researched and then published as soon as time allows. Please send thoughts and comments to: > My name is Bill and I thank you for reading the TELNET NEWS! > The TELNET NEWS/LAND LINE LID THIS WEEK is copyright (c) 2003. - 30 - ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::