Sadly, there are people who connect to the packet BBS regularly over the USA. It jams up the channel with REJ packets from AOS to LOS. Those people probably don't read anything published here on AMSAT-BB.
73 Clayton W5PFG
On 9/22/2016 13:11, Robert Bruninga wrote:
All it takes is one person to try to log on, and then the ENTIRE PASS is lost to retries and retries and retries. Nothing is accomplished, and rarely if ever does anyone even get logged on. It is an abomination to even think about using the ISS BBS.
Oops... nevermind... I see you are on an island thousands of miles from any Ham Radio density...
But again, this will ONLY work over Hawaii, or Australia, or South Africa or other areas where packet ISS usage is so low as to be non-existant. In those places, yes, it would be a fun experiment. BUT ONLY UNTIL others heard about it. Then it would be the same ole' "tradgedy of the commons"... (google it)... Everybody tries and it fails for everyone....