05-03-14 11:10 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Resurrected   
      
    RW> @MSGID: <5365693C.383.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    RW> Greetings Ed!   
   Howdy! Roy,   
   -snip-   
    EV> After I sent my last Reply to You I remembered Local Civil Defense   
    EV> (CD) back years ago, used REACT and ARES Members in Urgent Situations   
    EV> and Training Exercises.   
      
    RW> In some places, REACT is still around, but not here. We do have   
    RW> a repeater where ARES hams gather on certain days to talk about   
    RW> their activities.   
      
    EV> The REACT Operators I worked with when I operated the CD Ham Station   
    EV> Are the Cream Of The Crop CB'ers, I think!   
      
    RW> I don't think they're CBers anymore. They use a UHF radio   
    RW> service instead.   
      
   I didn't know that until today when Tom mentioned REACT is on FRS freqs   
   now.   
      
    EV> Tom Currie the SYSOP of The Volunteer GT-Power BBS was/is involved in   
    EV> Both REACT and ARES back then.   
      
    RW> I seem to recall that name, but can't find it in the nodelist.   
    RW> It would be between Cullins and Cunningham and there's no such   
    RW> name.   
      
   I guess you didn't know the "GT-Power BBS Network" was a different BBS   
   Network.   
      
   The Volunteer BBS wasn't in the "FIDO BBS Network", that's probably why   
   you couldn't find his name or BBS in the 'FIDO' Nodelist.   
      
   Back in the mid 1980's - early 1990's I saw in the Newspaper the City   
   Library had a BBS that was on FIDO, I Logged On as a GUEST to their BBS   
   one night to look around and didn't use it again because IIRC the only   
   BBS I was using then was for Commodore Computers, and what I saw on the   
   FIDO BBS didn't interest me back then as I was still learning what's   
   what on my Commodore 64 system.   
      
   Later on, I saw messages from Mike Powells PAN-AM BBS - formerly(sp?)   
   called Moe's Tavern BBS - while I was using Toms The Volunteer BBS,   
   and learned that Mike carried both BBS Networks AND there was a echo   
   for BASIC Programming on the FIDO Network side I joined Mike's BBS too.   
      
   After Mike got a job that took him away from my area I started using   
   Janis's < His BBS had File Areas with lots of Files with information to help   
    EV> all kinds of Volunteer and Public Service people - CB, HAM, FIRE,   
    EV> POLICE, etc., etc.   
      
    RW> Janis Kracht probably has all of those files, as she's the   
    RW> Sysop of a file distribution system called Filegate.   
      
   I'd have to ask Janis if Filegate has any of Tom's GT-POWER files.   
   I'll leave a message to her in the FIDO GAZETTE echo to find out.   
   But I wouldn't think she has any because AFAIK her BBS was/is only on   
   the FIDO Network.  Not sure about that though.   
      
   Do You read Janis's echo too?  If not I'll let You know what I learn.   
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