7Z1FP - PACKET NODE AND BBS
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - LL34IT
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The operator of this gopher hole also runs a packet radio station.
If you like gopher, the reasoning will be familiar: a small, plain,
slow protocol that still works long after it should have stopped.

  Frequency    144.850 MHz, 1200 baud AX.25
  Transceiver  Icom IC-9700
  HF           21.115 MHz USB dial, VARA HF
  HF hours     0600 to 1400 UTC
  HF radio     Icom IC-7300
  TNC          Dire Wolf - software modem, no hardware TNC
  Node         BPQ32 - 7Z1FP-7, alias KHALID
  BBS          7Z1FP-8, alias KHLBBS

Packet in Riyadh has been dormant for years, so as this is written
it is likely that nobody else is listening. The aim is a working
packet network across Saudi Arabia and the Gulf: several nodes able
to pass traffic when the others cannot, and mail that crosses
borders without touching the internet.

I am a beginner at this and still learning. Nothing here is written
from authority, and if you have been doing packet for years I would
rather have your corrections than your patience.


REACHING IT BY RADIO

If you are within range of Riyadh:

  1. Any 2m radio, a computer, and an audio interface with PTT
     control. A hardware TNC works but is not needed.

  2. Install Dire Wolf (the modem) and EasyTerm by UZ7HO (the
     terminal). Set MYCALL and PTT in direwolf.conf. EasyTerm
     talks to Dire Wolf on port 8000.

  3. Tune 144.850 MHz and connect to 7Z1FP-7. Type BBS, then
     READ START. That page explains every command.

  4. To leave a message: S 7Z1FP, give a subject, type the
     message, then /EX alone on a line. That last part is what
     actually sends it, and it catches everybody once.


ELSEWHERE

  https://hp84.com    this station on the web
  https://ge97.com    archiving work, and a museum of the early web

73 de Khalid, 7Z1FP

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