Inspired by late night mastodon.radio conversations, I put in a low-ball best offer on a TRS-80 Model 102, not expecting it to be accepted, but it was. So I guess TNC field packet is a go? What have I done? 😜 🤠
Looks minty. I will order a replacement RAM backup battery and a re-cap kit just in case (battery certainly needs to be replaced), that's like $20 in parts. And a DB-25 to DB-9 RS-232 cable.
My ham neighbor, W7HGK, went SK last year; over the weekend his widow gave me a chance to take a few things from his shack before the local ham club helps disassemble the rest.
Besides a bunch of components for homebrew radios, I took a small selection of his packet gear. Not that I expect the books to be up-to-date, but I enjoy reading old technical books to see how much things have/haven't changed.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-dec-engineers-saved-ethernet
Reminding me how badly CSMA scales to packet radio, unless we could manage to get the /CD part in that is.
I wish there were some like minded hams near me so we could experiment with slotted Aloha. The early work with the Montreal protocol I did was all CSMA. Store and forward of course is a great use of a high tower as well and we had that on early Amateur Radio sats. (Larry Kayser)
This is a really good one stop shop for setting up #direwolf for #PacketRadio on both windows and #linux . It seems like lots of the info out there is kinda dated. This writeup handles modern configurations.
Update: BetterYAAC (as I'm calling it) now supports overlays on all map symbols (as per the APRS 1.2 spec and symbols-new.txt) instead of just the alternate table ones!
This includes the operator bit - using the "O" (oscar) overlay to indicate that an operator is present and available at that station.
Let me know if anyone else wants a copy, for now the code is private but I can easily flip that switch if enough folks want YAAC with a few hacked-on changes.
It might be super fun to put some #gemini sites up on #HF#PacketRadio along with a #PacketRadioBBS . Something makes me think that the young folks would dig the idea of #VHF Packet radio, too.. Hell, they like cassetttes and vinyl LPs ..
Maybe even put up a whole #gemini gateway on Packet.
I did it. Not only do I have a working VHF base station, but I've gotten #packetRadio working on it!
Fun fact: My G5RV is somewhat resonant on 2 meters. I have no idea how or why but it is. (and somehow, it's better on the 440 band). Not something I'd use long term (not high enough, and still not a good match), but it's also close enough that I'd feel comfortable setitng up with it. So I did. APRS IGate (and briefly acting as a digi), a little (BBS) packet, but I also just got Winlink... funnily enough, to reach that RMS, I needed to relay through the KA-Node of the person I was sending the message to just because they have more power out than I do.
And this is the rig that I broke, broke again, and repaired!
My area is really sparse when it comes to meshtastic coverage and I would like to expand it. There are a lot of videos on how to build solar powered stations, but nothing I could find on how you should go about setting the nodes up.
How do I set up a solar based station in areas that I don't own? I'm looking for some sort of game plan on how to go about setting up a meshtastic network. I want to expand in my area, but don't know the best way to go about it.
So, I found a bunch of great info getting a BBS set up on #Network105 last week. I am now SUPER interested in getting involved in the #DigitalTrafficNetwork on #RadioRelayInternational . I just gotta figure out if there is room for me here. sounds so fun!
Spent alot of mental energy writing this repo last night, It's still a WIP but this is sufficient for now
This is an All-In-One repo for #APRS with both Cross-Band and Simplex Support utilizing Direwolf, kissutil and Telnet with support for both Rigs and #RTLSDR RX Only IGates
I have NO IDEA why i am so dead set about setting up a #PacketRadio station in 2023. I think I just want to participate in #NTS on the digital level. I just gotta figure out who I can even connect to on #VHF
Personally I was thinking about building some #ChonkyPhone that is even more repairable than the #Fairphone.and.would even allow swapping the #WWAN Modem...