[FADCA] Re: [fpac] WP to WP

[Chuck Hast]

On 6/16/05, Dan Garley <dpgarley at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 June 2005 22:26, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > On 6/14/05, Dan Garley <dpgarley at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 14 June 2005 00:24, Bill Sinbine wrote:
> > > > At 11:59 PM 6/13/2005, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > > > >I just looked at your fpac.conf file and it is set to a 1... Here is
> > > > > the piece
> > > > >
> > > > >Node = FTP
> > > > >         Path     = N4XEO-9
> > > > >         DNIC     = 3100
> > > > >         Address  = 772460
> > > > >         Port     = 3
> > > > >         NoWp     = 1
> > > > >
> > > > >See the last one, it is set to a 1 that is supposed to mean it is
> > > > > true, indeed I
> > > > >was not sending wp to your machine until I set mine true, I just
> > > > > changed the name and address of a previous entry and forgot to change
> > > > > the NoWp to a 0 so until I did that you did not get any node updates.
> > > > > What is wp going to?? what is the target address?
> > > >
> > > > I'll go in and change it to a 0 and that will take care of the problem.
> > > > It is just going to
> > > > WP to WP via 813626* W4AKH-8
> > > > It is sending this on my port 3 which is what goes out to my other dos
> > > > box.
> > > >
> > > > Never mind!!!!!!!
> > > >
> > > > I guess it is time for bed.
> > > > When I got into the fpac.conf file it dawned on me what you said above
> > > > so I lift it at the 1 to make it true to NOT send n4xeo-9 wp updates!!!
> > > >
> > > > I do see you on the node right now. You just connected to wb4moz bbs in
> > > > Wellington..
> > > > Now maybe we will get some others in here playing with our new toys.
> > > >
> > > > Is there anyone else that is thinking of setting up a linux fpac box
> > > > and learning this stuff???
> > >
> > > Me Dan, WH6A
> >
> > Daaannnn, suchadealwehaveforu....
> >
> > When are you read to do it?? It is so much fun and you will get to rant
> > and rave, but at least from my perspective I have learned a lot of little
> > things that have made working with linux a lot more fun...
> I luuuuuuv a great deal!  OK, I have a spare box (right now running Suse 9.3)
> and 45W 2m rig I can dedicate, 24/7 broadband. Wireless and cat5 lans in
> house and shack. No dialup capabilities (use cells or internet phone, no LL
> here).
> 
> I have gotten started so far by installing agwpe and pacterm on a winbox, and
> am rcvg pkts from DAB on .05.  Just got back from skycraft yesterday with a
> proper optoisolator, and have built the tx interface which worked on the
> bench all clip-leaded together.  Documented the config. and pulled it apart
> this afternoon to put it in a "proper" enclosure with appropriate connectors.
> 
> Soooooooooo, prob. this eve or tmrw mrng will have a working packet station,
> then get the lin fpac box up , telpac running etc.
> 
> Then I'll be able to move forward.  Thought I'd have the station running LAST
> week, but no optoiso in the junkbox, and an attempt using the tones
> (rectified) to vox key an opamp  driving a relay were not reliable and seemed
> like a little too much txdelay necessary for my liking.  Plus sometimes it
> would not unkey (that darn little 5 volt 250 ohm relay coil would "hold" with
> as little as 2 ma idle current on the coil.  Took about 15 mils to pull in
> though..)  NOTE: For sale, 1 slightly used relay, only about 50 cycles on
> it....
> I'll update you when I'm making a packet racket on the air.

Well, once you get that linux box up you will really like the way the ax25
stuff is handled in comparison to agwpe... The day that they integrate the
ax25 stack into windows (I think I heard a donkey laugh) then there will be
a much nicer and cleaner operation. As long as ax25 is a bolt on it will not
be a part of the system. 


> btw, Dave KO3O is at about the same point I am in getting a station up etc.
> 

Well sounds like we will have two more switches up and on the air.

-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."