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From: torbortc@clutx.clarkson.edu (Tadd,KA2DEW, ,3152621123)
Subject:NEDA, was: Packet buzzwords
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 17:39:59 GMT
Message-ID:<1991Apr17.173959.14115@clutx.clarkson.edu>

>From article <1991Apr16.170506.14041@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, by whester@isis.cs.du.edu (William R. Hester):
> 
> Does anyone know of a good packet handbook that fills in the gap between
> beginner and packet technoid level?
> 
> ....and please post your responses to the original questions above to this
> group...I'm sure there are others who have wandered into packet radio and
> want to learn more...but are not up to the 56KBaud stuff yet!  :-).
> 

There are clubs that may be of benefit to people who want to learn
more about packet radio.  Here's some info.
North East Digital Association   (I'm editor for this one)
Box 563 Manchester NH 03105 - NEDA runs a LARGE TheNET network of 
35 multiport nodes over a 400mile range including
Boston, Concord, Manchester, Springfield, Pittsfield
Albany, Utica, Rochester, Binghamton, Buffalo.  No
phone lines, no tricks, just 150 radios/TNCs with
dedicated point to point UHF, 220, 6m, 900, 1200mhz
links and 2m and 220 user access ports.  The club publishes about 180
pages /year of newsletters, new user help stuff, tech stuff etc.
The Quarterly is about 35 pages/quarter.
Membership is $15/year for US.  Send a SASE to the
POBox.

Northern California Packet Association
This is an education and coordination club that puts out a quarterly 
journal called the Downlink.  The one I have here is 20 pages long and
is chock full of packet stuff.  THey are
NCPA   6680 Alhambra Ave, Suite 111 Martinez CA 94553

Then there's a few magazines:
New England TCPer - This journal comes out 6 times a month and $12/year
NE TCPer  252 Stow Rd.  Harvard, MA 01451

Digital Digest  - TCP, AMTOR, RTTY, CW everything  6 times a year and
is 30 to 40 pages long including commercial advertising.  $16/year
Digital Digest  4063 N. Goldenrod Rd  Winter Park Florida 32792


Joining a club, even a non-local one is a good way to get into correspondance
that will answer some of the harder questions.  One of the items that
I helped create recently for NEDA was a 13 page glossary of packet terms
that the club will probably make available.  It was created for a technical
developement meeting in Scranton Pa a couple of weekends ago.
               Tadd, KA2DEW    NEDA editor
               Box 330 Colton NY 13625    - 315-262-1123 (until 11PM EST)

[ KA2DEW @ KA2JXI.#NNY.NY.USA.NA                - Tadd Torborg             ]
[ torbortc@clutx.clarkson.edu                   - 26 Maple St - PO Box 330 ] 
[ NEDA (North East Digital Association) Editor  - Colton, NY 13625         ] 
[ Clarkson University                           - 315-262-1123             ]