/\/\/\...Ron Britton KB9TF.../\/\/\

KB9TF@KB9TF.#SIL.IL.USA.NOAM

Welcome to the station of KB9TF. I was born and raised in DuQuoin, IL. I currently live in Marion, IL and work at a local coal mine. I have been a ham since 1975. My original call was WN9SCT, and then WB9SCT. For you new hams, when you first got into ham radio, you had to go by the way of being a novice. Your first callsign contained the N to show that you were a novice. Then, when you graduated to a tech or general, they changed the N to an A or B. Most of my ham time is spent in packet radio. I run a full service BBS on packet. I am currently running three ports on 145.05, 441.05, and HF. I run the MSYS BBS program. It is a DOS, full service BBS program running under Windows 95 with the QRZ callbook installed for the users.

You can send email to me from the internet to my packet station by sending it to KB9TF VIA Packet . This must be plain ASCII text with no formatting. And your email program should not send it with MIME. What MIME does is tell another email program about your email. When you send it over packet, it creates a bunch of gibberish at the end of the email that is bigger than the email itself. So you clutter up the radio traffic with worthless junk. There is enough junk on packet without us adding more to it. You can also email me through this site at

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