Subj : Re: Packet Radio
To   : vorlon
From : dejavu
Date : Tue Jun 16 2020 13:05:08

On 29 Apr 2020, vorlon said the following...
 
 vo>  al>   Re: Re: Packet Radio
 vo>  al>   By: calcmandan to alterego on Tue Apr 28 2020 05:49 am
 vo>  
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 vo> 
 vo>  al> (Work is keeping me busy, and when it is not, my kids are.)
 vo>  
 vo>  al> Why dont we do it here - and perhaps we could drag a few more in?
 vo>  
 vo>  al> But, step #1 is to learn what I need to learn. For me it seems to
 vo>  al> begin here: https://www.amc.edu.au/industry/amateur-radio
 vo> 
 vo> To operate Packet (ax25) in Australia a "Standard" license is required.
 vo> 
 vo> The basic setup is:
 vo> 
 vo> Radio (2m or 70cm) and Antenna
 vo> TNC (1200bps or 9600bps, with 99% being 1200bps) [Think of the TNC as the
 vo> modem]
 vo> Computer running terminal software or bbs software with the AX25 stack
 vo> loaded.
 vo> 

Hey vorion,
Exactly.  2m VHF 1200bps, and 70cm UHF at 9600bps, which 9600 is pretty darn
fast for text only traffic!

Now add HF for the fsxNet mail transfer and Netmail and the BBS and mail
functionality will still work when the grid is down :)

I already saw two people completely capable of doing this, what's really
holding this back?  I'm ready to jump in and make it happen!

73

-Dejavu

 vo> 
 vo> In the packet world the bbs software is 100% txt based, and there are a
 vo> number of software packages. The most common obe being FBB.
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 vo> 
 vo> \/orlon
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 vo> 
 vo> --- MagickaBBS v0.14alpha (Linux/armv6l)
 vo>  * Origin: \/orlon Empire: Sector 550 (21:1/195.1)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/32)
 * Origin: 1984 BBS [1984bbs.net:23] Washington, DC (21:3/114)

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