14 May 07 17:17, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Bj”rn Felten:

 MvdV> Bj”rn Felten wrote to David Drummond on Monday May 14 2007 at
 MvdV> 21:14:


 BF>>    I do find it amusing however to switch between your, Ross' and my
 BF>> system -- three different continents by a click of a mouse. It's
 BF>> unfortunate that Doug's and Matt's systems don't seem to work any
 BF>> more -- but then again I already *do* have their continent covered.

 BF>>    It would be nice to have someone from zone 4 or 5 set up a
 BF>> JamNNTPd server; then I would have almost the entire world
 BF>> available.

 MvdV> Hmmm... Reminds me of my other hobby: HAM radio. There are hams who
 MvdV> make it a point of contacting as many parts of the world as they
 MvdV> can. A nice first start is the WAC. Workes All Continents. Or if
 MvdV> you want to keep it local, WAP; Worked All Provinces.

 MvdV> Once I was driving through England on our way to Ireland with my
 MvdV> father in his VW camper. I had my HF rig installed in it and I made
 MvdV> contact with a Swedish HAM who was looking for all bayliffwicks in

Bailywick(s) are small villages...

 MvdV> England or something like that. So I kept the line open and we
 MvdV> exchanged callsigns every 20 km or so while I was moving west on
 MvdV> the Motorway. Helped him to a lots of point for the award he was
 MvdV> hunting for.

 MvdV> Maybe we should do the same as the hams: issue awards for
 MvdV> contacting BBSs... ;-)


 MvdV> Cheers, Michiel

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