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From: milo@ndmath.UUCP
Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Ham radio & USENET
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Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 20:23:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 26 20:23:18 1987
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I wonder, with all the discussion of late about Hams setting up 9600 & 56K-baud
links do you think at some point one of the larger ham stations (perhaps the
ARRL ones?) might consider doing broadcasts of usenet news feeds?  There could
be several set times of day when the news would be sent, the data in the
broadcasts could be overlapped in case someone missed part of it.

It would certainly save a lot of people a lot of phone bills, all you would need
to receive the feeds would be a decent receiver and modem (since you wouldn't
be transmitting you wouldn't need a license).

Since usenet is a not-for-profit non-commercial service I would imagine that
broadcasting net feeds would fit in nicely with the Ham's non-commercial
charter (and public intrest goals).

Not to mention a lot of computer people would probably get addicted to the
Ham hobby and vice versa.

Greg Corson
...seismo!iuvax!ndmath!milo