[FADCA] Autum TAPR Newsletts has it all!

Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:39:49 -0500

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale Coleman [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 08:11 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [FADCA] Autum TAPR Newsletts has it all!
> 
> 
> At 07:48 AM 11/9/02, you wrote:
> >Deltona
> >Saturday Nov 9 0550EDT
> >
> >The Autumn 2002 TAPR newsletter has several interesting articles.
> >
> >http://www.tapr.org/tapr/html/Fpsr.html
> >
> >Three are of special interest to our work as they relate to 
> current hot
> >topics for us.
> >
> >   2.4GHz +13db gain  yagi antenna  - cute little thing 
> would make a 5w amp a
> >      big fella.
> >
> >   Use of e-mail messaging for emergency planning - someone 
> else sees The
> >      Light.
> 
> Hi all, I read the section on e-mail messaging and can't help 
> but think the 
> wheel is being reinvented.
> 
> I seem to remember a JNOS TCP/IP packet system that I believe 
> could be set 
> up to allow accessing any POP Internet email on the server 
> end and use any 
> Internet e-mail client program on the user side.
> 
> Has anybody played around with this? Would it be worth looking into?
> 
We have our very own version of this sort of thing right here
in the Bay area, it is called TNOS and the author lives right
here in Tampa. But above and beyond that, a LINUX FPAC switch
can also be set up to operate as a router between the internet
and the radio network, another advantage of moving the FPAC
network to LINUX is that we can also use IP over the air either
encaped in FPAC packets up to the point where they go into the
wired network or just encap them in AX.25 and use the ability
to route IP over the LINUX boxes. The neat thing is we will be
able to compare this sort of operation because it all will be
running over the same sites. That said, once you have IP access
then any mail server will work, and it does not have to be a
specialized e-mail server, it should however be able to handle
text based clients for the people who are on the far end of a
1k2 path. Every LINUX distro comes with such things as (no stones
please) Sendmail, Fetchmail, you can also download Qmail.

Then there are the solutions that Bud has been demo'ing that
run under Win2k (the Windows distro I most trust, but without
SP3) The neat thing about these solutions is that they use
interfaces that a person who is not familiar with our amateur
based systems can use because the are just plain on e-mail.

We have discussed this in the past, and the general consensus
seems to be that the nearer we remain to the common e-mail
formats the easier it will be when the crunch comes to put
non-amateurs in the hot seat handling e-mail, while we radio
people make sure the pipes keep working and set up other RF
stuff, something that most of those people either have not
license to do or no knowledge to do or both.

Back to TNOS, Brian has a HTML interface for TNOS which
presents a "sort of standard" e-mail GUI for the joe blow
user. I have not looked at it latelly but I believe that
the effort of work on TNOS has been to move it to a more
standard e-mail format such that it can talk to regular
e-mail clients, acting like a server. I have not had mine
running for a while so have got behind on it, I will check
the list and see where things are, also we might be able
to get Brian to give us a "show and tell" at some meeting
in the future.

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