Greetings from California. The land of fruits and nuts and milk and honey.

New nodes 21:3/208 - US 99 BBS and 21:3/209 - Ray's Road Node.


73 de W6RAY Ray Quinn
Visalia, CA DM06ii
GMRS WRKZ506



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On 14 Oct 2025, Ray Quinn said the following...

Greetings from California. The land of fruits and nuts and milk and
honey.

New nodes 21:3/208 - US 99 BBS and 21:3/209 - Ray's Road Node.

Welcome! Ray's Rode. How did that name come about? Tell us a little about yourself and board?

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Greetings from California. The
land of fruits and nuts and milk
and honey.

Welcome from NY! The land of uh... traffic. lol


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Ray Quinn wrote to All <=-

Greetings from California. The land of fruits and nuts and milk and
honey.

New nodes 21:3/208 - US 99 BBS and 21:3/209 - Ray's Road Node.

Welcome - your message made it, well, to the other side of California!
:)



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Greetings from California. The land of fruits and nuts and milk and honey.

Got you loud and clear in Brisbane Australia, land of bull sharks and
100 degree Christmases :D

Cheers,
RetroSwim

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Hello claw!

16 Oct 25 07:45, you wrote to me:

On 14 Oct 2025, Ray Quinn said the following...

New nodes 21:3/208 - US 99 BBS and 21:3/209 - Ray's Road Node.

Welcome! Ray's Rode. How did that name come about? Tell us a little about yourself and board?

Not much to tell, really. I started running a BBS in the late 1980s on a Commodore 64 and a 300 baud modem. Soon after, with the assistance of my younger brother, ran one on a Commodore 128. Can't remember the software.

I joined Fidonet in August of 1990 (WOW! 35 years ago.) as 1:205/222. Soon the Visalia area was growing so Net 214 was created. Eventually the first digit was removed and I have been 1:214/22 ever since. I have ran various BBS packages, Telegard, Renegade, Maximus, WWIV. Now I run Synchronet on a Debian Linux VPS located in Bakersfield, about 75 miles from Visalia with a 1GB synchronous pipeline.

I have had my commercial drivers license (Class A) since 1986. I currently work for a company that transports heavy equipment, approaching 20 years. I created Ray's Road Node on a microSD card housed in a USB adapter. The origins of that are due to times when I would transport equipment to fires here in California. When I had phone/Internet service, I would connect to my BBS (Currently called US 99 BBS, Highway US 99 (now CA 99) runs through the area) and download mail. Originally I used an offline mailer (Multimail), but changed to the Road Node to help test my BBS configuration.

The software is Husky Project for processing message and file areas and GOlded+ as the editor/reader.

I hold an Amateur Extra amateur (ham) license and current president of the radio local club. (tcarc.net). I also run two packet radio BBS systems using radio (and Internet) to pass "floods" between systems. (floods are like echomail). The packet BBS is located 37 miles from the house at 7,500 feet elevation, while my elevation is just under 300'. Internet is provided with a microwave link from the house to the site. However, as I type this, main power is out and some things are on battery backup. (it snowed nearly two feet on Tuesday)

Sorry for rambling. There is more, but I think I will give the readers a break... My wife says I talk too much sometimes...


73 de W6RAY Ray Quinn
Visalia, CA DM06ii
GMRS WRKZ506

If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body,
then only left-handed people are in their right mind.

My "governor" is an ID10T. Don't blame me, I didn't vote for him!!


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Hello slacker!

16 Oct 25 15:30, you wrote to me:

Greetings from California. The
land of fruits and nuts and milk
and honey.

Welcome from NY! The land of uh... traffic. lol

Thank you!

I think traffic is every where. If I want traffic, I am less than 200 wiles from San Francisco and Los Angeles.

73 de W6RAY Ray Quinn
Visalia, CA DM06ii
GMRS WRKZ506



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Hello poindexter!

16 Oct 25 08:46, you wrote to me:

Ray Quinn wrote to All <=-

Greetings from California. The land of fruits and nuts and milk
and honey.

New nodes 21:3/208 - US 99 BBS and 21:3/209 - Ray's Road Node.

Welcome - your message made it, well, to the other side of California!
:)

Thanks Kurt! How are things up in Northern California?


73 de W6RAY Ray Quinn
Visalia, CA DM06ii
GMRS WRKZ506


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Hello Retroswim!

19 Oct 25 01:12, you wrote to me:

Greetings from California. The land of fruits and nuts and milk
and honey.

Got you loud and clear in Brisbane Australia, land of bull sharks and
100 degree Christmases :D

Thanks for the report. We don't have 100 degree Christmases, but we do have several consecutive weeks of 100+ degree days. The closest we get to a white Christmas is the fog this areas is infamous for. Some winter days it is difficult to see the house across the street. We had rain last Tuesday and 1/4-1/2 mile visibilities on Thursday. Now back to sunshine and 80 degrees. A normal October day in the San Joaquin Valley.

73 de W6RAY Ray Quinn
Visalia, CA DM06ii
GMRS WRKZ506


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Ray Quinn wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Thanks Kurt! How are things up in Northern California?

Just had a late summer weekend well into fall - in the high 70s and
sunny along the beach!



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