[FARC] Airmail, etc.

[Kirk Talbott]

Dick,  I'll change my Packet Client to automatically check WN3R-10 every 60 
minutes or longer.   I don't get much Airmail activity and I really don't 
need to have it check WN3R-10 more than 3 times a day.  Have been checking 
more frequently because me and Rolan (W3FDK) have been playing with Airmail.

The times when Airmail failed (failed is such a harsh word, hiccupped is 
more fitting) were few and I can't be certain that WN3R-10 was the problem. 
On my Airmail Packet Client  I would see the successful connection to 
WN3R-10 and nothing after that,  WN3R-10 would not run its script.   I had 
to manually disconnect from WN3R-10.   This happened maybe twice in an 
entire day.    I don't know what kind of failure this is but I'm thinking 
it's more of an Airmail software bug.

Yesterday morning around 8:00 a.m.  I couldn't connect to WN3R-10,  but an 
hour later or so it worked fine and worked fine all day and evening. 
Considering the icing conditions you must have had up there I think it did 
pretty well.   I had heavy icing here too on Ridge Road so the connection 
failure might not have been with your system at all.

Just curious, is there any advantage to setting up the Packet Server module 
and the Telnet module on Airmail?  What is Packet Server designed to do?

In the last two days of monitoring WN3R-10 I don't hear any activity except 
for Rolan, unless there is other pass-thru activity on WN3R-10 that I 
wouldn't hear.

73
KB3ONM
Kirk



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From: "Richard W. Hayman" <richard.hayman at verizon.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:41 AM
To: <farc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [FARC] Airmail, etc.

> Kirk:
>
> 30 minutes automatic connect times are OK during emergencies.  I think
> somewhere in the docs they recommend 1 hour or more as a courtesy to 
> others.
> You can always connect on demand anytime.
>
> When you were not able to connect was it a data or RF failure?
>
> I think once you send one message, you are automatically registered.  You
> need to set up a whitelist to receive emails or give special instructions 
> to
> your friends on how to code the message to override their not being on the
> whitelist.  It's been so long since I set this up that I can recall the
> exact instructions.
>
> Both the winlink and airmail website's have guides plus there are more
> guides others have written.
>
> It's a challenge to get everything up and running just right. 
> Fortunately,
> once it's done, it's done. Let me know how you fair with Vista.  I'm sure
> I'll have to cross that road sometime (not too soon, I hope).
>
> 73, Dick, WN3R
>
>
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