Packet (was: ham radio)

On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 10:43:56PM -0600, Richard W. Schauer wrote: Wow, yeah NOS is kindof advanced as DOS programs go. My main ham interest is TCP/IP packet actually, I'm too shy to chew the rag with strangers around the world. :-) But I'm using a modern machine (relatively, a dual Pentium 100) with Linux. Support for TCP/IP over AX.25 is just excellent. After 5 years of evangelizing some of the other hams around here are starting to use it too. It doesn't even serve much purpose really, hardly any traffic actually flows over packet but I guess sometimes people like to log in to my system as a way to telnet out to the Internet. I want to provide as many gateway type functions as I can eventually but haven't figured it all out yet. And I want to put together a second setup for testing purposes and for mobile use. I'm using a Mitrek for operating at 9600 baud (now we're back on topic kindof, the radios are old! :-) When I first got involved with packet I was using my 386 machine with a couple of MFM drives that I'd pressed into RLL service. I think one was a full-height 30 meg drive and the other was an ST-251. There wasn't a lot of excess space but plenty for a no-frills install of Slackware back then. I started with a somewhat flaky Heathkit HD-4040 tnc and then upgraded to a KPC-9612 to do 9600 baud, and that's what I still have now although I've got a PI2 kit to finish building some day (need to find some parts to finish it, such as the SCC chip and some others) and a PacComm 9600 baud modem to go with it, and some other 9600 baud TNC for another channel or whatever. I'm on 144.91 MHz but there is a 440-band backbone too which I want to get on eventually. I found a couple of digiboards on ebay so now I have plenty of serial ports to hook up as many TNC's as I like (as well as eliminating the main reason I wanted to get that MassComp working... anybody locally want a MassComp?) I'm also supposedly working on a little project to send traffic reports out over APRS, using data taken from the ADOT road-speed sensors, ramp meters and so on. But that involves somebody else who hasn't been in contact with me for a couple months so I will have to yank his chain again one of these days. Meanwhile maybe I'll find a good deal on an extra 1200 baud TNC so I can actually do APRS. Linux software for that is starting to exist in embryonic form. -- _______ http://www.bigfoot.com/~ecloud (_ | |_) ecloud(a)bigfoot.com finger rutledge(a)cx47646-a.phnx1.az.home.com __) | | \__________________________________________________________________