LONNY
London - New York Link
How it works
Lonny is the London - New York amateur radio "wormhole", carrying AX25
packets between the old world and the new. Some speculation has grown
up about how it actually works.
The Lonny is a speaking tube under the Atlantic ocean. Packets at
the London end are decoded, and the contents 'spoken' down the trumpet
at the London End. Here, Frank Garofalo, WA2NDV can be seen
listening to the traffic eminating from the tube, and is shouting the
messages to another amateur in a car equipped with a mobile amateur
radio station and a laptop computer. The messages are rewritten in
digital form, and passed into the US amateur packet network.
Sometimes the LONNY appears to stop for five to ten minutes. This
happens when the operators of the LONNY break for an ice-cream.
Incoming packets from the US network are decoded on the laptop,
and passed to Frank. Below on the right, he can be seen bellowing
the contents of a netrom nodes broadcast down the tube for reception
in the UK and retransmission on the UK network.
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