[DCART] Initial DCART PBBS is on the air!

[Glenn Thomas]

Hi James!

Yup. Right now it's JNOS 11.1C, a version that is several years old. 
It is running on a 386SX/25MHz laptop under MSDOS 5.0. It's what I 
had set up and the March DCART meeting. I used it primarily for the 
convers bridge ("chat room") and ftp with a 9600 baud TNC. The 
software is amazingly stable, running literally for months at a time.

Eventually I plan to put it in a better location, exactly where is 
TBD. Other extensions will be a link to the local PBBS system, such 
as it is and possibly into the APRS net. Also, I'm in the process of 
building and checking out the latest version of JNOS (2.0d) on a 
Linux box. That's the version that will eventually be on some hill, 
after the appropriate hill, computer and radios have been procured and set up.

The 2.0d version of JNOS does a few things that the v11.1c version 
does not. The most interesting from a DCART perspective is that it is 
said to support APRS and also a standard SMTP interface with 
winLINK2000. It can also interface directly with the Internet, but 
we'll have to get a service that allows a static IP address for that. 
The current system is set up with my ampr.net address of 
44.125.132.13, though I'm not aware of anyone around here who is able 
to make use of it.

FWIW, I can make a standard JNOS setup available for anyone who is 
interested. The requirements are a DOS computer (XP should be okay) 
with an RS-232 serial port (a USB-to-RS232 dongle is acceptable), a 
TNC that can be run in KISS mode, an appropriate radio and of course 
an ampr.net IP address. The address is free, but you do have to ask for it.

73 de Glenn wb6w



At 04:24 PM 3/28/2006, you wrote:
>Any plans for the bbs?
>
>On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:51:10 -0800
>Glenn Thomas <glennt at charter.net> wrote:
>
> > For the moment, it's at my home in the Johnson Lane area. - Glenn