Is your Synchronet ax25 work still usable. I notice the wiki pages are gone now.
Understood. Thank you for coming me back to me.
I have wanted to try a packet bbs for a years and finally find myself in a position to do it :-)
I can play with something else, I just happen to like Synchronet.
So some context is I have finally moved from living in a city with no antenna space to a nice countryside residence with a huge garden and plenty of antenna space.
play. There isnt a packet bbs anywhere in range of my QTH and I really want to see what its like. Given I cannot connect to anything on RF on the
only way is to run my own. If it works out I could easily furnish local hams with modems if they were interested (thats hard to predict).
So yes I would love it if you looked at it :-) Whenever be that sooner or
Couple this with the fact I have quietly been buying up packet modems cheap on ebay for a few years (among other old tech) I now want to have a play. There isnt a packet bbs anywhere in range of my QTH and I really want to see what its like. Given I cannot connect to anything on RF on the only way is to run my own. If it works out I could easily furnish local
echicken wrote to monsieurmarc <=-
Is your Synchronet ax25 work still usable. I notice the wiki pages are gone now.
No, it is not. I will put some work into it at some future date, but don't waste your time on it now.
monsieurmarc wrote to echicken <=-
Understood. Thank you for coming me back to me.
I have wanted to try a packet bbs for a years and finally find myself
in a position to do it :-)
I can play with something else, I just happen to like Synchronet.
echicken wrote to monsieurmarc <=-
Well, if you're interested in this I can start working on it sooner. I was thinking about it just yesterday or the day before and I keep
meaning to do something about it.
Might mess around with it this weekend.
monsieurmarc wrote to echicken <=-
So some context is I have finally moved from living in a city with no antenna space to a nice countryside residence with a huge garden and plenty of antenna space.
Couple this with the fact I have quietly been buying up packet modems cheap on ebay for a few years (among other old tech) I now want to have
a play. There isnt a packet bbs anywhere in range of my QTH and I
really want to see what its like. Given I cannot connect to anything
on RF on the only way is to run my own. If it works out I could easily furnish local hams with modems if they were interested (thats hard to predict).
So yes I would love it if you looked at it :-) Whenever be that sooner
or indeed later.
echicken wrote to monsieurmarc <=-
I digress, but were I in your shoes I would be messing around with HF
and the variety of modes available there. That said, there is some HF packet activity, at the blazing baud rate of 300.
You'll find that packet BBSs are very slow and boring. However, hosting one from Synchronet would mean plenty of ways to introduce new content
and make it more interesting. Plus it's just kinda fun to be able to
call a BBS, over the air, at a considerable distance, without much if anything in the way of supporting infrastructure.
only way is to run my own. If it works out I could easily furnish local hams with modems if they were interested (thats hard to predict).
Very hard to predict, but maybe you can get some people interested.
Would be neat if you could get people on board with using a BBS as a
hub for club discussion, DX spotting, etc.
So yes I would love it if you looked at it :-) Whenever be that sooner or
It'll be sooner; seems around this time each year I take a bit of
interest in it again. Most of the work is already done, just needs to
be tidied up.
Have you tried the ISS yet? I have'nt teh technology to do it yet, but I
college, really wished I could have worked them, I'm trying to get up the equipment to at least work the BBS, then hopefully after that I can work
also like to know is if there's still a way to gate echoes between Synchronet and a packet BBS. I know there used to be years ago (Australian packet radio bulletins were gated to Fidonet back then), but Google came
HF digital modes are pretty impressive these days, highly recommended.
I do like the idea of putting a Synchronet board on packet. I might even consider setting up a second SBBS system dedicated to packet radio, which will solve any content issues, since only hams could access that copy of SBBS, and access could be more tightly controlled.
I worked the BBS on the ISS one time. You're not missing much, but it's one of those things that you do just so that you can say you did.
Apparently it's a bit frowned upon, since your session will tie things up during the ISS pass and prevent other people from getting in. Seems like an unwritten rule, though, and I don't bother myself too much with those.
When I had this "mostly working" in the past, I had a bad-words filter in front of every string that was sent through the packet interface, just to stop things from slipping through. Ideally there would be a restriction flag that gets set when a user is on packet (or an exemption flag when they're not) which controls access to various parts of the BBS. This would require some extra configuration, but might be better than running a separate instance.
echicken wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Can't say what utilities may exist for this purpose at the moment, but that would certainly become possible with Synchronet serving as a
packet BBS. The same code that assembles & disassembles packets and
talks to the TNC can interface with the BBS' message areas directly.
echicken wrote to Vk3jed <=-
HF digital modes are pretty impressive these days, highly recommended.
Lots of fun ones to try and I've enjoyed many of them, usually using fldigi.
I do like the idea of putting a Synchronet board on packet. I might even consider setting up a second SBBS system dedicated to packet radio, which will solve any content issues, since only hams could access that copy of SBBS, and access could be more tightly controlled.
When I had this "mostly working" in the past, I had a bad-words filter
in front of every string that was sent through the packet interface,
just to stop things from slipping through. Ideally there would be a restriction flag that gets set when a user is on packet (or an
exemption flag when they're not) which controls access to various parts
of the BBS. This would require some extra configuration, but might be better than running a separate instance.
Yes, Google came up empty handed last time I looked. Using Synchronet certainly has its appeal to me. So, how are you doing it? I would like to
be able to interface Synchronet to my software of choice. I used to use
echicken wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Javascript modules/services running under Synchronet that can interface with a KISS TNC or any other source/sink for AX.25 packets. I had this "working" before but not as well as I would have liked; partway through
a redo now.
be able to interface Synchronet to my software of choice. I used to use
Would need to know about the software and what it means to interface
with it before I could say much.
The first step is just to make a functioning user interface that a
person can connect to over the air from a terminal and navigate the BBS from. After that, I'd like to be able to exchange mail/bulletins with other packet BBSs. Some other ideas kicking around. I'm not sure what else people might want it to do.
There's a number of software interfaces for BPQ. I think one is a virtual KISS TNC, which might be worth trying. I'm sure there's programming
User interaction and packet mail/bulletin forwarding would be a good start
monsieurmarc wrote to Vk3jed <=-
I have listened to the ISS talking to a SChool also. But I havent
tried packet to it be it APRS or otherwise.
If there are a number of us thinking about synchronet packet perhaps we can link them by using tunnels and ampr IP addresses?
echicken wrote to Vk3jed <=-
There's a number of software interfaces for BPQ. I think one is a virtual KISS TNC, which might be worth trying. I'm sure there's programming
Any KISS TNC on a serial port (real or virtual) should work. It just wants to be able to open that device and see frames coming in (and be
able to write frames to it). Socket interfaces would also be doable,
but not immediately supported.
The most common question I used to get about this was "will it work
with x". The answer was always "if it provides a KISS interface, then yes". Probably half a dozen people asked if it would work with
Soundmodem, which in theory it would, but to my knowledge nobody ever bothered to try and report back.
User interaction and packet mail/bulletin forwarding would be a good start
A straight-up user interface is easy enough and already exists, though I'll likely want to update it. Interacting with other types of packet nodes is another story; not too difficult, but involves figuring out
how to talk to other systems.
Yep, sounds like you're well on the way. What version SBBS do you require?
echicken wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Yep, sounds like you're well on the way. What version SBBS do you require?
Won't be ready for testing for a little while, but so far it looks like builds 3.15b and above should work, once a few new JS modules are put
in place.
monsieurmarc wrote to Vk3jed <=-
i have a request in for an IP so lets see what happens :-)
monsieurmarc wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Got my AMPR IP allocations today.
I need to setup a gateway next I guess. ARe you running one on your pi
or something else?
monsieurmarc wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Broadband router with the pi set as dmz by any chance?
monsieurmarc wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Thats my plan also though i will need to replace the terrible
modem/router that the ISP provides.
monsieurmarc wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Can I ask that make and model you use?
monsieurmarc wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Sorry blame me posting from a mobile and not in any way being lazy at
all! ;-)
I was wondering what router you were using given I need to replace the rubbish ISP provided one I have. In the context of hosting an AMPR gateway
I have a Fritzbox 7270. It's setup so that the Linux AMPR router is the "exposed host" (DMZ). The AMPR router itself is a Raspberry Pi running ampr-ripd.
monsieurmarc wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Good to know. I managed to get mine working despite the terrible
British Telecom router.
Would you be interested in looking at a tunnel between bbs's?
I don't have a TNC on air yet or a packet BBS. Those are both on my todo list for the next few months, during the winter when things are quieter for me. :) But at some stage, I will be looking for both links and AXIP wormhole endpoints. We effectively have a tunnel. You should be able to see the following IPs:
monsieurmarc wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Sounds good.
I had one tnc (connected to raspberry pi) talking to another using a
psion 5 last night which was fun
Re: Blast from the past
By: monsieurmarc to echicken on Fri Mar 17 2017 10:17:00
Well, if you're interested in this I can start working on it sooner. I was thinking about it just yesterday or the day before and I keep meaning to do something about it.
Might mess around with it this weekend.
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Did you have a play with this at all?
Re: Blast from the past
By: monsieurmarc to echicken on Tue May 09 2017 08:52:03
I've been working on it, but a bit distracted by other things lately. Progress is being made, though.
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Distraction wise I have been playing with POCSAG paging. Its rather fun.
monsieurmarc wrote to echicken <=-
Many thanks for the reply.
Distraction wise I have been playing with POCSAG paging. Its rather
fun.
echicken wrote to monsieurmarc <=-
Distraction wise I have been playing with POCSAG paging. Its rather fun.
It's amazing how many people are still using that, isn't it? I've
snooped on some of that traffic here and saw stuff from hospitals, taxi dispatch systems, telemetry/monitoring systems, etc.
Where I work we have these LED pixelboard signs, with speakers built in and an antenna sticking out. Our security people never figured out how
to use them properly, so they're just being used as clocks at this
point. Every hour on the hour, a burst of POCSAG gets sent out on one
of the frequencies allocated to us. My guess is that it's to
synchronize the time on those devices, but the last time I tried I
wasn't able to decode it.
I've done a bit of that in the past, works well.
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monsieurmarc wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Interesting that we all seem to of tried the same things :-)
Many thanks for the reply.
Distraction wise I have been playing with POCSAG paging. Its rather fun.
Interesting that we all seem to of tried the same things :-)
Re: Blast from the past
By: monsieurmarc to echicken on Fri May 12 2017 05:04 am
never knew tooo much about pocsag, until I give my nephew who is interested in amateur radio an sdr receiver and introduced hom to sdr# and fldigi and the like, and he was decoding pagers from a hospital many miles away, I could'nt understand if it were just an anomoly, ot if they purposely transmitted high power. I would'nt know why someone 2 states south of a hospital that room 3156 needs their bedpans changed.
and could almpost say that some of the transmissions were on the border of breaking hippa regulations.
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