Subj : Re: Packet Radio
To   : tenser
From : Vk3jed
Date : Sun Jan 10 2021 19:34:00

-=> On 01-10-21 04:41, tenser wrote to SetiOp <=-

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

I have 2 /24s, so I'm doing my bit. :)

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

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

Good work, adding to the documentation base. :)

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

My utilisation of my space is still in itd early days, but I eventually hope to
have something up on packet running AX.25 and IP at a minimum.  I used to run
KA9Q NOS in the old days. :)


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