On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 10:43:56PM -0600, Richard W. Schauer wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, John Lawson wrote:
>
> > PS: How many Listmembers are also Hams? I know of at least ten or
> > so of us... dah-dit dah-dit dah dah dit-dah..... QRZ?
>
> I'm KF9VP, and sometime soon I will get kf9vp.ampr.org [44.72.70.29] back
> on the air. It's a IBM PC XT with a Seagate ST-225 hard drive; when you
> open a telnet connection to it the hard drive seeks away like mad for
> about 15-20 seconds before you get a login: prompt. The sound almost
> makes you feel sorry for the drive :-)
Wow, yeah NOS is kindof advanced as DOS programs go. My main ham interest
is TCP/IP packet actually, I'm too shy to chew the rag with strangers around
the world. :-) But I'm using a modern machine (relatively, a dual
Pentium 100) with Linux. Support for TCP/IP over AX.25 is just excellent.
After 5 years of evangelizing some of the other hams around here are
starting to use it too. It doesn't even serve much purpose really, hardly
any traffic actually flows over packet but I guess sometimes people like
to log in to my system as a way to telnet out to the Internet. I want to
provide as many gateway type functions as I can eventually but haven't
figured it all out yet. And I want to put together a second setup for
testing purposes and for mobile use. I'm using a Mitrek for operating
at 9600 baud (now we're back on topic kindof, the radios are old! :-)
When I first got involved with packet I was using my 386 machine with
a couple of MFM drives that I'd pressed into RLL service. I think one
was a full-height 30 meg drive and the other was an ST-251. There wasn't
a lot of excess space but plenty for a no-frills install of Slackware
back then. I started with a somewhat flaky Heathkit HD-4040 tnc and then
upgraded to a KPC-9612 to do 9600 baud, and that's what I still have now
although I've got a PI2 kit to finish building some day (need to find some
parts to finish it, such as the SCC chip and some others) and a
PacComm 9600 baud modem to go with it, and some other 9600 baud TNC for
another channel or whatever. I'm on 144.91 MHz but there is a 440-band
backbone too which I want to get on eventually. I found a couple of
digiboards on ebay so now I have plenty of serial ports to hook up as many
TNC's as I like (as well as eliminating the main reason I wanted to get
that MassComp working... anybody locally want a MassComp?)
I'm also supposedly working on a little project to send traffic reports
out over APRS, using data taken from the ADOT road-speed sensors, ramp
meters and so on. But that involves somebody else who hasn't been in
contact with me for a couple months so I will have to yank his chain again
one of these days. Meanwhile maybe I'll find a good deal on an extra 1200
baud TNC so I can actually do APRS. Linux software for that is starting to
exist in embryonic form.
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