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    From Howard W3CQH@hgorden@adelphia.net to alt.ham-radio.packet,alt.radio.amateur.club.taparc,rec.ham-radio.packet on Sat May 6 21:05:26 2006
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    Does anybody know of a book for "Dummies" to hook up and use the old packet systems? Or any other good primer book for packet that can be purchased?

    73's


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  • From Jimchip@jimchip@ifthisisavalidhostname.com.invalid to alt.ham-radio.packet,alt.radio.amateur.club.taparc,rec.ham-radio.packet on Sun May 7 01:18:44 2006
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    On 2006-05-07, Howard W3CQH <hgorden@adelphia.net> wrote:
    Does anybody know of a book for "Dummies" to hook up and use the old packet systems? Or any other good primer book for packet that can be purchased?

    73's

    Not a book but I've had a good experience with Bux. http://www.packetradio.com/PKTprimer.htm

    Their Rascal works great for me and the CD has quite a lot of information
    and software:
    http://www.packetradio.com/RASCAL.htm

    It's probably most important to find another ham who also wants to play
    with packet (or who is already).
    --
    You can even have your own IP number :)
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  • From lucifer@lucifer@eternal-flames.gov to alt.ham-radio.packet on Thu May 11 08:56:09 2006
    From Newsgroup: alt.ham-radio.packet

    On Sat, 6 May 2006 21:05:26 -0400, "Howard W3CQH"
    <hgorden@adelphia.net> wrote:

    Does anybody know of a book for "Dummies" to hook up and use the old packet >systems? Or any other good primer book for packet that can be purchased?

    73's


    There's also a set of good foundation articles at: http://www.choisser.com/packet/

    They don't tell you how to hook it all up, but do explain what the
    various system commands/params are and help you set them to the right
    values.

    Nick.
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