Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pitt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cadre!pitt!hoffman From: hoffman@pitt.UUCP (Bob Hoffman) Newsgroups: net.ham-radio.packet Subject: TAPR TNC 2 Status Report Message-ID: <1313@pitt.UUCP> Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 23:38:36 EDT Article-I.D.: pitt.1313 Posted: Sun Aug 25 23:38:36 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 28-Aug-85 11:06:16 EDT Reply-To: hoffman@pitt.UUCP (Bob Hoffman) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science Lines: 127 Four messages forwarded from CompuServe's HamNet... #: 31610 S9/Packet/RTTY/AMTOR 21-Aug-85 01:26:33 Sb: #TAPR Fm: Harold Price, NK6K 71635,1174 To: all The lines are now closed for the nite. Calls dropped to 0 soon after 9:00, guess folks are following the guidelines, thanks everyone. We're preparing a report on activities now, watch this space in an hour or so. Preliminary looks show that no one area of the country seemsed to be "locked out" over any other area. Even the DX came in, 16 orders from Alaska, 13 from NY, {_27 from TX. A full report to follow. We'll be on the phones again tomorrow. Orders taken tomorrow will be in the mid-sept range, until order #600. (we're on 497 now). nk6k, wb9flw, and wa7gxd, the nite time DJs. #: 31613 S9/Packet/RTTY/AMTOR 21-Aug-85 02:30:32 Sb: #tnc2 status report day 2 Fm: Harold Price, NK6K 71635,1174 To: all A preliminary report from TAPR. 10:30pm PDT 8/20/85 every 3.5 min or so. Average time between calls was 5 seconds. The maximum time was about 10 seconds, except when the local telco switch crashed. This rate was sustained on both 8/19 and 8/20 from 9:00am till 9:00pm. . The following are totals for phone orders by State/Province: AL 6; AK 16; AZ 6; AR 2; CA 83; CO 12; CT 8; DE 0; DC 1; FL 9; GA 10; HI 1; ID 0; IL 9; IN 11; IA 1; KS 1; KY 2; LA 1; ME 0; MD 12; MA 16; MI 4; MN 2; MS 1; MO 4; MT 1; NE 0; NC 12; ND 0; NH 2; NJ 15; NM 2; NY 13; NV 1; OH 11; OK 10; OR 1; PA 10; RI 0; SC 3; SD 1; TN 5; TX 27; UT 8; VT 0; VA 9; WA 17; WV 4; WI 3; WY 0; Nova Scotia 1; Ont 7; SAS 1; QU 3; . This is a total of 381 calls handled in 24 hours of phone time, or 3.7 minutes per call. As you can see, being in AZ was no help at all, although it seems CA was the place to be. . We did hear from the phone company at around 1:00pm the first day. It seems that the main switch in the Tucson CO had crashed three times, and all long distance trunks were jammed. We noticed at least one occasion where the phone didn't ring for 30 seconds, and when we checked, there was no dial tone. The phone CO asked us to check with them next time, as they have a special prefix in the area for "Radio call in shows" and the like. They also asked if we could stop the calls. Pete explained that we couldn't. (Pete will be taking future calls from a pay phone near his home). . We are unaware of any action by the phone company to alter the traffic flow, although we can assume they did something to protect the network. There was no effect on the call rate at 746-1166. . Although phone orders currently total 381, the order numbers passed out included beta units, and after the first 280 kits, mail orders. All order numbers up to 290 will be included in the first batch which are due to ship the week of August 26. All following order numbers up to 600 will be in the second batch which should ship by mid-September. Due to the demand, which exceeded even our expectations, we will continue to take orders past 600, which will ship in October. If conditions warrant, we will attempt to increase production for October to meet demand. . We apologize for the difficulty in reaching the office, but will continue to work 9:00am to 9:00pm until the phone calls slacken. We will keep you advised. Thank you for your continued support of TAPR and the Packet Radio Revolution. . >From the TAPR Nite Time DJs (we play the hits), WA7GXD, WB9FLW, N0CCZ, NK6K. #: 31648 S9/Packet/RTTY/AMTOR 22-Aug-85 01:15:04 Sb: #Dxpedition Report - TNC2 Fm: Harold Price, NK6K 71635,1174 To: all . !! News Flash from TNC 2 Central !! ******************************************************* While we did not achieve W.A.S. with sticker for twisted pair (missing Maine, Vermont and Wyoming), nor even reverse DXCC (we did get VK, OH, LA, VE, JA, YV, and a couple others) the pile-up has thinned out somewhat. The telephone calls are down to about a 50% duty cycle since noon local time today (Wednesday). A full list by states will be published at the end of the week. We did pick up DE, ID, ND, NE, and RI today. . Well over 600 TNC 2s will be making their way to the hands of persistent packeteers, with the first batch due to ship Monday, 26 August (we got the good news from the printer today! Manuals should definitely be in our hands on Friday...). Numbers 301 through 600 (plus or minus a couple) should ship out by mid-September. Order numbers above 600 will ship out in October (although we are taking measures to see if that can't be moved up to very late September). . TAPR is of course still accepting orders on a "business as usual" basis. This means multiple orders, mail orders processed same day received when possible, etc. We are planning our October production to reach a "ship from stock" status as early in that month as possible. . Your TAPR HotLine crew ("we play the hits"), consisting of NK6K, WB9FLW, N0CCZ and WA7GXD, on behalf of TAPR, wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to all of you who particpated thus far in the initial sale of TNC 2. It makes it all worthwhile! We'll start again tomorrow morning at 9:00am Tucson Time with order number 642. QRZ? #: 31734 S9/Packet/RTTY/AMTOR 24-Aug-85 11:32:56 Sb: TAPR News Update Fm: HamNet*SYSOP Scott W3VS 76703,407 To: All The following information ported from DRNET: TAPR NEWS! Units up to order #142 were shipped Friday, the rest will go Monday. They have taken up to order #713 which is the October shipment. They are back to regular hours of 9AM to 5:30 PM, and are happy to take orders. (The above information was taken off the recording on 602-746-1166) (so no need to call until next week...) -- Bob Hoffman, N3CVL {allegra, bellcore, cadre, idis, psuvax1}!pitt!hoffman Pitt Computer Science hoffman%pitt@csnet-relay