HRN Network BBS stations wanted. - Contact Charles N5PVL for details.
Welcome to HamRadioNet!
Amateur radio operators are the only group of private individuals in the world who have the ways and means to fund, build and maintain a worldwide communications network, independent of the internet and commercial or government entities. This is our own mount Everest, that only we may climb 'because it is there' only for ham radio operators like ourselves.
We do not have to worry about how our efforts compare to others in this area, as there are no others who can reasonably attempt to approach this task. Whatever we accomplish here is the state of the art, and represents the combined, cooperative efforts of thousands of individual amateur radio operators around the globe.
To be involved in the global amateur radio network is to be a part of amateur radio's single greatest accomplishment, and the true advancement of the radio art.
A while ago, I was involved in an email discussion between Packet Radio BBS SYSOPs about message routing problems introduced by "internet forwarders", people who hook up ham radio BBS software to the internet instead of amateur radio, thereby...