Board:   [fsxNet] HAM
Subject: Re: Packet BBS?
From:    claw(21:1/210)
Date:    Tue Oct 01, 2024 06:56

On 30 Sep 2024, Zero Reader said the following...

 ZR> I'd like to hear more about this also! I've been trying to setup a packet
 ZR> station recently, with the end goal of using Mystic as the BBS.
 ZR>
 ZR> You certainly can strip Mystic down to bare essentials -- for instance,
 ZR> just setting the default emulation for all users to ASCII will strip all
 ZR> the color out. Then you can chop out a lot of menu items, and shorten up
 ZR> the text strings and you're left with a very minimal package.
 ZR>
 ZR> I hope to get LinBPQ up and running on an RPi 3 to establish the packet
 ZR> node, and configure it to route traffic to Mystic via telnet. I'm going
 ZR> to try to make some inroads with this over the weekend. Gonna be hard to
 ZR> test because I don't know anyone in my area that does packet anymore.
 ZR>
 ZR> -ZR

I have seen several videos on packet radio.  The missing link is getting Mystic on the air.  Might need to do some sort of pass through.

DrClaw
Sysop Noverdu BBS Radio@HTTP://Noverdu.com:88
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