Donegal Packet Radio Network (Part 2)

The Packet Network

Part 2

It’s been a few weeks since I wrote Part 1 of this Packet Radio adventure and I have made a small amount of progress.

I was talking to a good packet radio friend Andy UZ7HO, who you may know as he writes the UZ7HO Packet Engine & Easy Term Software.

Andy and I were talking, and I settled on BPQ32, a Windows program that will run on Windows 10.

He sent me a config file to get me started that included ports on HF 14.105 lsb (Net105) and a port on 144.650Mhz.

Here is a list of the services that were added:

EI2GYB-3 / GYBBBS     – BBS (Bulletin Board System)

EI2GYB-4 / GYBCHT     – CHAT (Chat Server)

EI2GYB-5                       – CMS (Email / Winlink)

EI2GYB-7 / GYBNOD   – Node

It was then just a matter of playing with the config file to add connect texts & customise other messages to the users along with the beacons.

EI2GYB-7>NODE:

     ~~~~ ____|~~~~~~~~~~~~~|

     Y_,___|[]|   |       EI2GYB-7     |

    {|_|_|_|  |_,_|_____________|

  //oo---OO=OO     OOO     OOO

Once that was all setup it was then onto the BBS side of things.

For this I had a huge amount of help from Paul G4APL the sysop of GB7CIP.

We both managed to get my system talking to his & forwarding mail & bulletins.

It took a while to get the Hierarchical Routes & Address’s correct, However I still have not been able to send a Bulletin message or a message to go out onto the system so still some more tweaking to be done.

I have the HF Radio & the 2 Meter radio all setup and running now.

 

See you guys in the next part....