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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Winlink (wa7nwp_at_jnos.org)
2. Re: Winlink (Curt, WE7U)
3. Re: APRS Intro Presentation (Tyler Griffiths)
4. APRS Aeronautical mobile (Andrew Rich)
5. PACTOR-1 Sound Card Software for LINUX (Ray McKnight)
6. APRS Radio for VHF (Andrew Rich)
7. [OT] KPC-3+ firmware versions (Jim)
8. Re: PACTOR-1 Sound Card Software for LINUX (Curt, WE7U)
9. Re: APRS Aeronautical mobile (Stan)
10. xastir : xastir-development (Curt, WE7U)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:04:29 -0500 (CDT)
From: wa7nwp_at_jnos.org
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Winlink
>So Airmail is just a GUI front-end to command-line functions?
>Similar to all those old programs that make TNC's easier to use for
>connected-mode operations perhaps?
The airmail program is an Email Client (like Outlook or Thunderbird), an
Email Transfer Agent Client (connects to POP and SMTP servers), an Email
Server (handles POP and SMTP connections) and an interface (roughly a BBS
- server and client capabilities) to amateur radio modes such as the SCS
Pactor TNC's, generic pactor devices or legacy Packet.
Think of a version of JNOS compiled with a Windows GUI.
EVERYBODY WITH AN INTEREST IN DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS, EMERGENCY OR
OTHERWISE, SHOULD BE FAMILIAR WITH airmail2000.. It's a great program!
>If so, it should be awfully easy to make an ncurses or GUI front-end
>to the modem for Linux/Unix/MacOSX. If I had one of these modems I
>could play a little with that.
There is open source software that should work with the SCS devices that's
been available for 15+ years. That's all on the far too long to-do and
to-try it list. (I'm expecting a 10 to 25% improvement in throughput too
but I won't mention that until I've had a chance to test it... :-) )
73
Bill - WA7NWP
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:48:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer_at_eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Winlink
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>So... Was the answer to my question about Airmail merely being a
>front-end GUI for the TNC a "yes"?
Never mind. I'll play with it myself. I already see that there are
several secondary functions it performs. This isn't the right mailing list
to be discussing it anyway. I'll take it to the LinLink mailing list. ;-)
--
Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
"Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown
"Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
"The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!"
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:12:06 -0600
From: "Tyler Griffiths" <tyler.griffiths_at_gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] APRS Intro Presentation
I have a presentation that I used at a hamfes a few weeks ago.
It is the same as Bob B's but I added a few things.
http://home.comcast.net/~n7uwx/APRS-2006b.ppt
Use as you wish.
Tyler N7UWX
On 9/12/06, Darryl Smith <Darryl_at_radio-active.net.au> wrote:
>
>People
>
>Does anyone have a decent Introduction to APRS powerpoint that I could
>steal? Or Introduction to UI View? I have some stuff, but they are a tiny
>bit old and I would like to have something updated. Emailing me direct is
>probably the way to do this
>
>Thanks
>
>Darryl
>In Tucson
>
>---------
>Darryl Smith, VK2TDS POBox 169 Ingleburn NSW 2565 Australia
>Mobile Number 0412 929 634 [+61 4 12 929 634 Int] - 02 9618 6459
>www.radio-active.net.au/blog/ - www.radio-active.net.au/web/tracking/
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:52:23 +1000
From: "Andrew Rich" <vk4tec_at_tech-software.net>
Subject: [aprssig] APRS Aeronautical mobile
Google plot
http://vk4tec.no-ip.org/data/aprs_airborne/VHSJS2.bmp
Picking up the signals.
http://vk4tec.no-ip.org/data/aprs_airborne/aprs%20007.jpg
Plane setup
http://vk4tec.no-ip.org/data/aprs_airborne/aprs%20004.jpg
Andrew Rich
Amateur radio callsign VK4TEC
email: vk4tec_at_tech-software.net
web: http://www.tech-software.net
Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:40:46 -0700
From: "Ray McKnight" <shortsheep_at_worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [aprssig] PACTOR-1 Sound Card Software for LINUX
Several comments have been made that WinLink "doesn't run under Linux".
Here's a sound card software solution for Pactor-1 that runs under Linux!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hfterm/
For those brave souls who dare go where no Ham's gone before...
NCC-1701
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:58:29 +1000
From: "Andrew Rich" <vk4tec_at_tech-software.net>
Subject: [aprssig] APRS Radio for VHF
We did some airplane tests today and I came to the conlusion that an RF
brick would be the way to go.
We used a HT taped to the plane.
You are not really concerned about seeing the screen, or anything else.
The pocket tracker was such a good idea. - discontinued of course, maybe a
higher power version.
Anyone make a VHF transmitter only ?
Andrew Rich
Amateur radio callsign VK4TEC
email: vk4tec_at_tech-software.net
web: http://www.tech-software.net
Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:28:24 +0100
From: "Jim" <jim_at_stuckinthemud.org>
Subject: [aprssig] [OT] KPC-3+ firmware versions
Hi All,
I've discovered two versions of the v8.3 firmware, one reporting 1998 and
one 1999.
The PROMs are different so it's not just a date change, anyone know what the
updates were?
Jim
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:49:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer_at_eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] PACTOR-1 Sound Card Software for LINUX
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Ray McKnight wrote:
>Several comments have been made that WinLink "doesn't run under Linux".
>Here's a sound card software solution for Pactor-1 that runs under Linux!
>
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/hfterm/
>
>For those brave souls who dare go where no Ham's gone before...
>NCC-1701
The woman's bathroom of the starship enterprise, "Where no man has gone
before".
Knew about that one, and about the "hfmodem" driver for Linux by Thomas
Sailer, a soundcard driver for Linux that can do Pactor-I.
Another thing that people have done: Run Airmail under WINE on Linux.
One could start with just TNC control of the SCS TNC's and "hfmodem" driver
in order to do automated mail delivery. Add more functionality over time
via the all the really-cool libraries/apps available for Linux/Unix/MacOSX,
like "hamlib".
FWIW I installed Airmail and the associated programs yesterday, so I'll
hopefully be able to answer a lot of my own questions now. It's just _so_
hard to force myself to boot into that OS. hi hi
One nearby ham suggested that we write a daemon instead of a GUI package,
keeping more with the mail-server and Unix approach, leaving the mail
client to whatever standard Unix mailclient people already use. I think I
like that idea the best. It could server that machine and a
small/medium/large network of other computers seamlessly. I would think
auto-switchover between different types of mail delivery should be
relatively easy as well, just deliver via whatever method is fastest and/or
most reliable at the time.
Let's take any possible further discussion of this to the Linlink mailing
list (wetnet.net), a much more appropriate place.
--
Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
"Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown
"Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
"The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!"
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:44:27 -0400
From: Stan <srkleeds_at_sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] APRS Aeronautical mobile
Andrew,
I've pretty much been trying to view these all day. I think the files are
a little too big and are choking your system to upload. Could you repost
with some smaller sized files so that we may see them please?
Thanks,
Stan/KC7EHJ
Andrew Rich wrote:
>Google plot
>
>http://vk4tec.no-ip.org/data/aprs_airborne/VHSJS2.bmp
>
>Picking up the signals.
>
>http://vk4tec.no-ip.org/data/aprs_airborne/aprs%20007.jpg
>
>Plane setup
>
>http://vk4tec.no-ip.org/data/aprs_airborne/aprs%20004.jpg
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