Subj : Re: Packet Radio
To   : tenser
From : vorlon
Date : Thu Jan 21 2021 11:47:32

 te> On 19 Jan 2021 at 05:44p, SetiOp pondered and said...
 
 Se>  lu> In Argentina have many BBS in  packet radio via intenet

 te> So it's an odd thing.  Having recently gone through the hassle
 te> of setting up a packet station _and_ an AMPRNet subnet, I've
 te> got some thoughts.
[...]

I used to run a Packet BBS (FBB), a DX Node (DX Spider), a RF to Internet
APRS gate, a IRLP node. The use of 1200 is a low hurdel that everyone can
get working due to the small bandwith that the radio passes. I did look
at going 9600bps, but that required radios that could do it (Limited
radios pre 2009), and a lot of find tuning.

I only had one radio that could do it, but that was running the APRs
gate. #-(

The interactive user base though had already droped to the less than 10,
The APRS was getting more use, but was still limited.

In the end it wasn't worth the effort of re-setting it all up when I
moved. It was also all running of a old Pentium 3 system running Centos3.

The AX25 support then was a mess, and hodged with sticky tape and wire to
keep it all running.


But kudos to you for getting something working.I still have the radio's,
TNC's etc, but as you said the software state is a mess. I doubt it would
even work on todays linux versions.




\/orlon
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