Holy crap that was fun

Just got back from the meeting. There were about 40 people and six other graduates from my Radio class. The President started off with about 45 minutes of a very well run administrative meeting with a couple presentations from other members. Mostly the upcoming Ski to Sea race. We broke for ten and then proceeded to do a lab on Digital Radio Communications (Packet Radio). There were three "Go Boxes" with Packet Radio systems set up and wired inside and we also used the main radio shack and the emergency van. I ran a multi-line BBS for ten years and the Packet system reminded me a lot of the various mail networks that pre-dated the internet, specifically FidoNet The club meets at the Whatcom County Search and Rescue headquarters so all of this equipment was there for us to use. We spent about an hour working with the equipment sending traffic back and forth. The instructor for my group was a lot of fun and really sneaky -- when we were focused on the computer screen, he would come around and nudge the frequency off a bit or unplug part of the equipment and then have us diagnose why we could not connect successfully. My first on-air use of my KF7VNY callsign.