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- From: David Nafissian <dnafissian@igc.apc.org>
- Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
- Date: 28 Dec 92 10:18 PST
- Subject: Hams: Contacts in SOMALIA??
- Sender: Notesfile to Usenet Gateway <notes@igc.apc.org>
- Message-ID: <1458200019@igc.apc.org>
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- TO: Ham radio operators of the world
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- FR: David Nafissian, Across Network Facilitator,
- The PLANET Project (sm)
- >> People Linking Across Networks <<
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- RE: CONTACTS IN SOMALIA??
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- Allow me to introduce the PLANET project:
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- PLANET is a consortium of educational telecommunications networks
- dedicated to exploring cross-network communication.
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- The AT&T Learning Network, Learning Link, Big Sky Telegraph, TENET
- (Texas statewide educational network), the International Education and
- Resource Network (I*EARN), and the FrEdMail (FRee EDucational
- electronic MAIL) Network are creating an infrastructure across which
- teachers and students may collaborate on each other's ** humanitarian,
- multicultural, action-oriented telecommunications projects.**
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- We are currently running a project dedicated to the exchange of
- information and support and assistance between the students of
- Somalia and the students of the rest of the world.
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- However, we are relying on news media for our information coming
- out of Somalia, as we are having difficulty establishing an email
- link in Somalia. This one-way communication is insufficient for
- our goals.
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- A fellow networker writes:
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- > [A] ham radio operator with a internet link can take an email message,
- > put it into his PC, and have the PC tap out the morse code directly
- > from the ascii file. Similarly, incoming morse can be translated into
- > an ascii file and then dumped on to internet.
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- Do any of you hams have 1) a ham contact in Somalia, and 2) an
- internet address, and 3) the willingness to help potentially
- thousands of students to broaden themselves, and be of service
- to the world?
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- Please send replies to David Nafissian at dnafissian@igc.apc.org.
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- Thanks and Happy New Year.
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- --David
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