Subj : Re: Packet Radio
To   : SetiOp
From : tenser
Date : Sun Jan 10 2021 04:41:04

 Se> Hi Tenser, sorry for the delay replying, I had issues with upgrading the
 Se> BBS here, which I hope are now sorted out. I used to have AMPR address
 Se> space many years ago and was looking to set something up again a few
 Se> years ago but there was very little interest in what I was trying to do.
 Se> I am interested in seeing what you can put together! 

Personally, I think every Ham should grab an AMPRNet allocation:
either we use that space or we lose it.  The sale of the /10 to
Amazon a couple of years ago was a huge boon for the community,
in that it gave ARDC a pile of money that it could use for grants
etc, but ironically also shows that we're underutilizing our
available resources.  Using an HT to call into the local FM
repeater is great and all, but not really all that interesting.

I did get my stuff working again, and I updated my 44net routing
software (my router runs OpenBSD, sadly, so the stock solutions
for Linux didn't work for me) and wrote up instructions on the
AMPRNet portal:

https://github.com/dancrossnyc/44ripd
https://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Setting_up_a_gateway_on_OpenBSD

I have a timesharing host on my subnet (finger @kz2x.ampr.org
to see if anyone is logged in...).  I also have a RockPi4
(quad-core aarch64 with 4GiB of RAM, an NVMe SSD, and a real
ethernet PHY/MAC, not a USB bridge) running Raspbian that
connects to a 2m rig through a Tigertronics Signalink USB
soundcard.  The RockPi runs direwolf, and what I'd like to do
now is configure ax25d so that connection to some AX.25 SSID
will automatically telnet to the timesharing machine (that
part could be SSH, since it doesn't go over the air, but who
cares?), then someone can use `axcall` or another AX.25
terminal to connect into my Unix machine and have access to
AMPRNet. This should be easy, except that, ironically, line
endings are causing problems.  I'll probably hack up `axspawn`
to make it run telnet instead of invoking a shell.

It occurs to me that I might be better having folks telnet into
a plan9 machine, since someone might try to run `vi` or something
over AX.25, which is ... not going to work.

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