KC6VVT
Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 37 Location: IL LaSalle Co Tonica
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Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:51 am Post subject: W9DRR-10 digi converted from APRS to new ARES-IL network
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Courtesy posting by KC6VVT
from w9drr <w9drr.ham@gmail.com>
to IllinoisPacketRadio@yahoogroups.com
date Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 4:12 PM
subject [IllinoisPacketRadio] Introduction
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 4:12 PM, w9drr<w9drr.ham@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have an AX.25 node in Winnebago county, just outside of Rockford.
> Intersection of 2 and Latham rd. 50W @275ft 6dbd fed with 1-1/4".
> Linux native AX.25. LinuxRMS (W9DRR-10)installed just
> waiting on key/password. Also using TCP/IP. Currently beaconing ID and
> Winnebago County ARES on 145.610. Let me know if you hear it.
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> Trying to get the skills back as it's been quite a few years for the TCP/IP stuff. Been using the node in the same config/hardware for APRS for about 2-1/2 years on 144.39. It's too congested and I am too high to be useful on APRS. Yeah it can hear, but collisions galore. Same with TX, it invariable causes more bad then good so I re-tasked the node for the Illinois ARES Winlink initiative.
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> I am trying to build a TCP/IP network with a central jabber server
> for IM or maybe we might use D-Rats. I am the only D-star user in town. No other interest. I am trying to get direct keyboard-keyboard-group messaging with some kind of FEC, semi-reasonable speed for local events and also serve the wider Winlink community with a decent range system. I am lucky to be in the position of having a battery+generator backed up system on a tower with some extra HAAT advantage do to my position as an Engineer at a local radio station group.
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> I have been doing packet since '89. I remember copying packets from one of the shuttles and mir. I got connected once but not long enough to leave a message. Linking cross country to talk to a friend. SURE took a while but was successful. Connect to a node via, via, via, via, via. It was a real kick. Packet was how I got the bulk of the satellite ephemerides from a local BBS. I used to send packet mail to a friend in Sweden. Normally got replies back in a day. It used and HF link and it had to wait on conditions. That was until the internet came along and broke everything. I had a linux node setup running TNOS for a few years in the late 90's and again in early 2000's. I was moving a lot back then. I still get a kick out of bounding UI frames off the ISS when the mode is on and I think about doing it.
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> I am trying to learn Winlink, no one locally is using it that I am aware of so I am looking for anyone in the general vicinity who can help. I want to make sure everything up here in N-IL is running smooth and is ready for action should we need to put it to some real work in an emergency.
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> Don
> W9DRR
> AEC Winnebago County
> OES & Technical Specialist Illinois Section
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n9mxq
Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 160 Location: Belvidere IL
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Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 8:05 am Post subject:
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Yea, and now he's bored with that project and wanted to come back to APRS.. I told him no thanks.. I've got it covered...
Last I knew W9DRR-10 wasn't active anywhere. Signed Gene Young N9MXQ
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