[Linux-ham] convers node

[Kevin Otte]

These are all good suggestions, especially the part about keeping off
the wirelines. (I think the old phrase was "landline lid"?) The point is
to build a network for our own experimentation.

Much of our gear has probably been gathering dust for quite awhile and
we're starting from scratch. The journey of a thousand steps and all
that... To that end, the suggestion of a single frequency is just to see
who's actually out there and can hear each other. Once we have more than
a couple nodes with more than one radio, then we can start looking at
other frequencies, etc.

I've blown the dust off my KPC-3 and have it sitting on 145.03. It's
emitting a beacon every 10 minutes with the URL for the info on this
mailing list. I also have the PBBS configured on it for N8VNR-1. If you
can hit it, feel free to drop me a message.

73 de N8VNR

On 01/13/2014 11:10 AM, Tadd Torborg wrote:
> Me too.  Technology is only part of the problem.  We have to focus on
> building links instead of stations.  CSMA does not work when there are
> over the horizon stations.  The trick to make a working amateur radio
> packet network is to build point to point links and switches.  So
> picking a free for all channel is counter productive.  Everybody needs
> two links or more.  No collisions.  The second issue is to keep the
> amateur radio network separate from the professional network, at least
> in terms of data flow.  Let's start with chat.   Next we figure out how
> to make a TDMA user port
> Does this sound too hard?  
> 
> Sent from my abacus