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From: enge@almaden.ibm.com (Roy Engehausen)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: FBB Compression
Date: 12 Apr 1992 18:09:11 -0700
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

Has anyone been able to descramble an FBB compressed message that they
monitored?  I have run it thru ever LZH code I have without success.

Roy, AA4RE
From: Chris.Schmelzer@f100.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (Chris Schmelzer)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: More Problems
Date: 12 Apr 92 04:07:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: tdkt.703062545.F00001

Well the data engine finally arrived and I purchased a
Alinco DR1200 data radio for the 2 meter side, waiting
on a DR4-10 for 19.2Kbaud... I was wondering
if anyone else was running a 1200 w/ a Kantronics product..
If so, what are you running for TX audio levels and Equalization...
I'm running max audio and partial equalization...seems to work, 
is this correct?

 * Origin: HAM>link< RBBS 612/HAM-0000 Saint Paul, MN (K0TG)(1:282/100.0)
From: foley@phoebus.meteor.wisc.edu (Jonathan Foley)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: I'd like to learn more about packet radio
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:35:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: meteor.1992Apr9.163549.22971
Reply-To: foley@meteor.wisc.edu
Organization: Center for Climatic Research

Hello:

I have *no* experience with radio, except using my little Sony-2010
shortwave.  I am, however, very interested in getting started with
things like packet radio.  From what I understand, I can get a 
Novice or Technician no-code license from the FCC that will allow me
to do voice/packet work above 30 MHz.

Could someone point me to sources of further information?  Is
there a compiled FAQ for this group?

Some specific questions I have about packet radio:

- What kind of equipment do you need?
- How much does this cost?
- What kind of license do I need?
- Are there people in the Madison, WI area that are also
  doing this?
- What can you do with packet radio?  Messages?  BBSs?  UUCP?
- I currently have a Sun Sparcstation 1 as my home computer.  What
  kind of software do I need with packet radio.  Has anyone used
  a Sun (or other Unix machine) for this kind of stuff?

Please email me or post it here...
Thanks in advance to any kind folks who can help me out.
I appreciate your time and attention.

Cheers,

Jon
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From: david@kelly.ksc.nasa.GOV
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: More on GIGABIT
Date: 10 Apr 92 03:01:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: kelly.9E5BB92230
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

From:
david@kelly.ksc.nasa.gov


To:
Robert E. Kahn, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Phillip Gross, Advanced Network and Services, Inc.
Lawerence Landweber, University of Wisconsin
Bernd Bruegge, Carnegie Mellon University

Ref:
GIGABIT Testbed Activity

Background:

  On pages 10-13, March 1992 issue of IEEE Network Magazine, there was
a very interesting article entitled "Where are we with Gigabits".  This
guest editorial referred to all of the gentlemen mentioned above.

Kennedy Activity:

  The KSC is interested in exploring GIGABIT architectures.  In fact,
a small embryonic project has been funded to establish a "test-bed"
of sorts.  This test-bed is not of the academic sophistication level
of others (i.e. AURORA, CASA, etc.), but is a first phase concept
exploration project.

  KSC is interested in testing the feasibility of using a GIGABIT
architecture to consolidate several divergent communication transmission
systems used to support the operations and launch of the Space Shuttle.

Requested Dialoge:

  I am interested in exploring the possibility of communicating with
other individuals to compare notes and lessons learned.  If interested
please reply via e-mail.  Thank you.

Sincerely,

David Sweigert

david@kelly.ksc.nasa.gov


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From: steve@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Schallehn)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: Ripoff Radio? (WAS Re: Combined radio/TNC)
Date: 9 Apr 1992 17:26:31 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

sro@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Shawn O'Donnell) writes:

>Besides assorted do-it-yourselfers, there's the new Alinco that's
>advertised in all of the latest ham magazines.  It's called the
>DR-1200T.  It comes with 25W output, a TNC cable, and 2400 baud
>capability.  The microphone is optional!
>
It sounds like your typical voice radio.  For example, Kantronics
sells a 2400 baud modem that uses QAM (?) that requires the same
bandwidth as 1200 baud, thus you don't have to make any mods to your
voice radio.  I think that is where they get the 2400 baud speed.

>You can assume that the deviation is set properly for data, and that
>the TX/RX switching is fast.  It sounds like you hook it up to a
>computer & start transmitting.
>
I would more assume they are not.  It looks like they took a voice radio
and just re-labeled it w/o a microphone.

>I haven't seen one myself.  Has anyone played with one?  
>
Nope, so I am just going from the pictures.  I may be speaking unfairly
about Alinco.  If they did provide a 9600 baud capable radio, then
that would be something to talk about.

-Steve Schallehn  KB0AGD
From: BTITMARS%ESOC@vm.gmd.DE (BARRY TITMARSH)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: FLEXNET help and contact BAYCOM
Date: 15 Apr 1992 08:06:57 -0700
Organization: European Space Agency
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

Hi all
Haveing had a NULL responce from contact with FLEXNET Group in Germany
I wish to Know if any one else in the World has had any Luck?? Ive written
Emailed ax25 and visited the so called place where its sold and Sitll come
come up with a big Nothing..
I would like to make contact with BAYCOM Group now to get info on the
BAYCOM-NODE think the latest version is Ver 1.5f  it compatible with FLEXNET
but with out the hassel of getting the software and the hardware
So has any one any contact info THAT is reliable and Likley to respond to
Questions.. for BayCom-Node software and SCC hardware
OR: if any one has had suscessful contact with the FLEXNET Group.
Thanks
Email only replies [btitmars@esoc.BITnet]  GM8SAU
Thanks Barry.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
From: pete@puffin.uucp (Pete Carah)
Subject: Re: HELP ka9q mailers address protocol
Keywords: ka9q tcpip mail
Organization: Pete's Unix
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 16:19:36 GMT

In article <29e89219-4f1.1rec.radio.amateur.packet-1@vpnet.chi.il.us> akcs.ken@vpnet.chi.il.us (ken hopkins) writes:
>Hi Ted. I believe the correct syntax is...
>hamcall@hamcall.ampr.org. For me that would be
>wa9wcp@wa9wcp.ampr.org. You'll see things like
This is an entirely local thing with EACH INDIVIDUAL STATION.
I and one other here (I'm running net under unix; he's running NOS under
DOS) use our first names as the primary mailbox and have (since the
"safe" custom seems to be callsign@callsign.ampr.org) aliases to point
the callsign to the name.  In the case of unix, there isn't a user here
known as "k6jrr" - the callsign is almost always an alias.  Just as in
internet mail you are supposed to support mail to several addresses that
are almost always aliases, ("postmaster" is one), hams "should" support mail
to their callsign, either as an alias or mailbox.

>ken@wa9wcp but that's a local issue and requires
>an alias file to translate ken back to wa9wcp.
That can vary (see above).  One should support mail to his callsign, and if
you mail to someone you don't know, it should be "safe".
If you prefer mail to some other name, either your "from" or "reply-to"
lines should reflect that, or your signature line(s) should.

>I have the full blown wnos3 including source code
>but it has to bee compiled with Turbo C.

-- Pete (k6jrr) (pete@puffin.uucp)
From: winter@Apple.COM (Patty Winter)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: Re: Beginner's Guide to TCP/IP
Summary: Get it!
Date: 11 Apr 92 01:38:31 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

In article <12118@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ford@eecs.ucdavis.edu (Gary Ford) writes:
>I have written a document entitled "Beginner's Guide to TCP/IP on the
>Amateur Packet Radio Network Using the KA9Q Internet Software."
>Version 2.0 of the guide documents the use of NOS 911229 (PA0GRI v2.0h)
>and BM v3.3.2.


If you've never seen Gary's guide, be sure to pick up the latest version.
Ever since he released the first version, I've been recommending it to 
incipient Mac TCPers (even though it doesn't really talk about the Macintosh 
version) because it's such a well written introduction to the KA9Q program.  
Five stars, highly recommended.


Patty

p.s. Of course, I've also been recommending it to incipient non-Mac TCPers.
I just don't like to admit that I know any...  :-)

-- 

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     ::   Sunnyvale, California	AMPRNet: 44.4.0.44	            ::
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
From: pst@cisco.com (Paul S. Traina)
Subject: Re: Ripoff Radio? (WAS Re: Combined radio/TNC)
Organization: cisco Systems, Menlo Park, California USA
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 21:05:20 GMT

I have an Alinco DR1200T radio and it works quite well.  It is true FM,  and
while it does NOT come ready-to-run 9600 baud, the modification for the
G3RUH modem is very simple.

It ran, out of the box,  right away.  It does *NOT* come with a TNC cable,
but does come with 1/2 of the cable (the mic end).

It's nothing more than a 112T without the microphone and mobile mounting
bracket.  Oh, except it's $50 less.  Where else can you get a rock-solid,
reasonably fast 2m radio for $270?

Paul
--
Our apparent freedom to do whatever we like shows how whatever we choose
serves the economy.	-- Raoul Vaneigem, _The Book of Pleasures_
From: jra@lawday.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (John R. Ackermann x2966)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: Introduction to NOS available
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:26:27 GMT
Reply-To: jra@lawday.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (John R. Ackermann x2966)
Organization: NCR Corporation, Law Department, Dayton OH

I just posted my introductory documentation for NOS to the
hamradio/packet/tcpip/incoming directory at ucsd.edu.

It's designed to be a useful guide for folks who know something about
packet but are just getting started with NOS.  It includes sample
configuration files, etc.  Preliminary reviews have been favorable, so
it might be worth a look...

It's "intronos.zip" and is in plain vanilla ASCII format that should
display or print on just about any hardware without problems.

John   AG9V
john.ackermann@daytonOH.ncr.com

-- 
John R. Ackermann, Jr.        Law Department, NCR Corporation, Dayton, Ohio
(513) 445-2966		      John.Ackermann@daytonoh.ncr.com
Packet Radio: ag9v@n8acv      tcp/ip: ag9v@ag9v.ampr [44.70.12.34]
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
From: n1gak@netcom.com (Scott Statton)
Subject: Re: printed circuit diagram or 2Mbps datalink in 1991 ARRL handbook
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 18:31:37 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Summary: PostScript
Followup-To: sender
Keywords: HiSpeed, 2MB

Greetings!  I made a layout for the boards [Two sided with ground plane] but
never ended up making the boards because I couldn't order the GUnnplexers
that the article called for.  Even after correcting the typo on the phone
number in the ARRL guide, I found that the part in question hadnt been made
for "a coujple of years now ... "   If anyone else knows a source of these,
I'd be glad to root through my backups and find the artwork for the board.
It's about a one evening project.  In fact - I'll get PC Boards MADE and
sell them at COST just to get more people to USE this mode.  Will people
be needing High-Speed Synch cards for various machines too?  I don't know
where to scrounge one up, and figured I'd just point-to-point one when the
need came.  [I've got a Mac and a 3B1 in my packet station] 

		N1GAK  Scott
From: winter@Apple.COM (Patty Winter)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: Re: Help 2nd try - mail naming convention etc
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:42:01 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

In article <3761@cod.NOSC.MIL> medin@cod.nosc.mil (Ted Medin) writes:
>
>1. What is the prefered protocol for smtp mail addresses?
>   handle@host       - ie ted@n6trf
>   callsign@host     - ie n6trf@n6trf

In the San Jose area, it seems to be personal preference. I use my
first name, some other folks do the same, others use their callsign.
(And, at least in the Macintosh version of Phil's package, you can
set up aliases so that all incoming mail lands in the mailbox of your
choice, no matter which user name it was sent to.)

Note, however, that if you're sending a message to an AX.25 user
(do you have a TCP-to-AX.25 gateway in San Diego?) you *have* to
use callsigns because the AX.25 BBS software will freak at anything else.


>   Educate me please on how we can  
>   do tcpip connections via netrom (or whatever).

I thought this was in the main KA9Q manual. If not, it's in a supplement.
Try rooting around the ka9q directory on ucsd.edu.



Patty

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From: clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: Re:  Poor Man's packet & modem
Distribution: world
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:05:40 EDT
Organization: Private UUCP "Twig" Node

In article <1992Apr7.000612.26742@tc.cornell.edu> payne@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Andrew Payne) writes:
>In article <N1FsiB2w165w@micromed.net.netcom.com> msolinas@micromed.net.netcom.com (Michael Solinas) writes:
>>Can a standard modem be used with poor man's packet?  I have a zoom 
>>external, and can purchase some used hayes modems (1200 baud) for $15.  
>>Can these be used with PMP?
>
>No.  In general most telephone modems *cannot* be used for 1200 baud packet.
>Most UHF/VHF 1200 baud packet uses Bell 202, which is a half-duplex FSK 
>protocol.  Some old, old modems implement this protocol but you don't
>find them around much anymore:  they usually get thrown away.
>

        But if we do have a Bell 202(A?) compatible modem, how might we go
about making a TNC out of them?  Is it possible at all.  It seems that my
old GVC 1200 had a command 'ath4' that was for special external connections
(some connotations towards radio were mentioned).  A relay clicked inside
the modem but the phone was not taken off of the hook.

--
 Craig Lemon VE3XCL - Kitchener, Ontario. Amiga B2000  OS 2.04  UUCPv1.15D.
 +1 519 741 0297    +1 519 578 7817              | Silly people!  We all
 clemon@lemsys.UUCP clemon%lemsys@xenitec.on.ca  | know that the Universe
 IP/Packet: ve3xcl@ve3xcl.ampr.org [44.135.84.51]| revolves around UUNET!
From: kf5mg@iinus1.ibm.com (Jack Snodgrass)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: List of 4800 baud and 9600 baud capable radios needed.
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:23:44 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu


   I just found out that it is possible to run 4800 baud on VHF.  Does
anyone have a list of radios that are capable of being modified to use
either 4800 baud or 9600 baud packet modems?  For example, can an ICOM
IC-2AT, Alinco DR-112, or a Kenwood TM-221-a be modified?  If so, what
needs to be done?  It would be nice if there was a file that contained
what radios could be modified to use the high speed modems, and what
steps were needed to do the modification.

73's  de  Jack - kf5mg
AX25net         -  kf5mg@kf5mg.#dfw.tx.usa.na - (817) 962-4409
AMPRnet         -  kf5mg@kf5mg.ampr.org       - 44.28.0.14
Internet        -  kf5mg@vnet.ibm.com -or- kf5mg@sdf.lonestar.org
From: Jeffery.A.Schneider@dartmouth.edu (Jeffery A. Schneider)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: Packet Radio in Cincinnati area??
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:31:46 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Hi I'll be moving to Cincinnati in July sometime to start a
postdoctoral research position at UCinn and was wondering about packet
radio in the area.  Can anyone tell me about the user freqs (i.e 2m,
220, 440?), any tcp/ip gateways, etc.  Any help would be appreciated. 
Responses are preferred by Email to:
           Jeff.Schneider@Dartmouth.edu

p.s.  If you want to help me find a place to live in the Clifton or
Hyde Park area for me, my wife, 2 1/2 kids, 2 cats and dog, that would
be great too, :-)

73 de WM1Y, Jeff
From: asqp-nbf@zama-emh1.army.mil (ASQP-NBF)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: HELP
Date: 13 Apr 92 13:20:38 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

I have a problem and I hope that I'm not the only one.
Could someone explain in SIMPLE terms whats the difference
between NOS,TCIP/IP, TNC 1 and 2,KA9?, and running a KAM or MFJ 1278
TNC.
Thanks
de Roland 7J1AKI @ 7J1AAA
or asqp-nbf@ZAMA-EMH1.ARMY.MIL
From: jduncan@willamette.edu (Jack Duncan)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet,rec.ham-radio.packet
Subject: packratt interface info. needed
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:03:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: willamet.1992Apr9.020304.11856
Organization: Willamette University, Salem, OR


i am doing a project and am looking for source code to interface my pc
to a terminal node controller.  any information would be GREATLY
appreciated.  

thanks in advance,

jack (jduncan@willamette.edu)

*** my only regret is that the fcc has not got my new license back to 
    me so i don't have a call sign yet.
From: medin@cod.nosc.mil (Ted Medin)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: Help ka9q et al mailer question
Keywords: ka9q bm mail
Date: 6 Apr 92 22:48:56 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego


 Im having a bit of trouble with the mailer & ka9q software.
After a lot of experimenting i am running this way:

1. domain.txt - has only callsigns, not "callsign.ampr.org."
2. domain suff null - the suffex(sp?) is not specified ie "ampr.org."
3. mail to "ted@n6trf" get thru fine & most of the time i have no trouble
   with addressing.
   However, when mail is sent to "n6trf" i get "n6trf.ampr.org not found"


So before i paint myself into a corner would you pse advise me on what i 
should be doing (as above) or whatever so that "ted@n6trf" & "n6trf" both
work as good addresses. Thanks in advance.
73, ted
n6trf
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: KA9Q's NOS 6.18 source
From: richard@nacjack.gen.nz (Richard Vowles)
Date: 11 Apr 92 23:52:38 GMT
Organization: Malleus Maleficarum - Nil Mortifi Sine Lucre


I managed to find the KA9Q's source for version 6.18 on ucsd.edu (after
remembering I had the old FAQ that was posted in November of last year
(perhaps an update is warranted? with more info in what is in those
archives?).

Anyone know if there have been any major bug fixes to the TCP/IP, KISS, or
AX.25 code since then?

Any help much appreciated.

Richard

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From: ford@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Gary Ford)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: Re: Beginner's Guide to TCP/IP
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:41:32 GMT
Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

In article <1992Apr10.155200.14931@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> be173@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (J. William Snyder, Jr.) writes:
>
>Thanks for taking the time to put together the documents
>introducing beginners to TCP/IP and making them available via
>FTP. Unfortunately, when I attempted to FTP to filbert... and

From my posting yesterday:

>> The document is available in three forms by anonymous ftp from
>> filbert.eecs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.57.123] in the directory pub/ka9q.
                                          ^
                                          ^
Argh, I blew it -- the ip address is 128.120.57.121.  If you ftp'd
to the ip address, you would have a problem.  However, ftping to the
hostname works OK, as confirmed by the pile of email I have received
this morning.

Sorry for the error.

	73, Gary
From: wd6ehr@wd6ehr.ampr.ORG (Mike Curtis)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: Why segregate TCP/IP? (was Re: kbd to kbd)
Date: 10 Apr 92 21:54:13 GMT
Reply-To: ames!elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov!puffin!wd6ehr.ampr.org!wd6ehr
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

If NET/NOS stations use mode VC, they will be more aggressive and have
a more equal footing with ax.25 stations.  

If ax.25 stations run sensible settings, they won't preempt tcp/ip
activity that much. 

The first is kind of wasteful (as well as other problems mentioned in
this newsgroup regarding mode vc); the second will work until the
channel gets busy and some impatient ax.25'er gets tired of waiting
for "his" turn while trying to read every bulletin ever posted on his
PBBS and "tweaks" things to "make them work better", and finds that he
now "owns the channel" :-(

(Now for the inevitable 9600 baud plug ;-)

If we'd get our collective heads screwed on correctly and move to more
realistic speeds than 1200 baud (at that speed, an acronym for "Boring
And Usually Dumb" ;-), this would not be a problem. 

We have a shared BBS-forward, tcp/ip, and ax.25 end user 9600 baud
channel (439.025) in Los Angeles, using TEKK radios for the most part
(which have been working well enough for most of us), with around 15
tcp/ip users, a handful of ax.25'ers, and several BBS forwarding ports
(to which the sysops have most generously allowed end user access) and
it works euphorically well.  Even with BBS forwarding, which _does_
hog the channel, it only requires a few minutes, after which ftp's,
etc., resume on their own. 

All this on a standard 25 KHz channel - and it'll work on any channel
width that will support 1200 baud AFSK! 

 --
 Mike   wd6ehr.ampr.org!wd6ehr@puffin.UUCP
From: Pat.Dockrey@f3.n346.z1.fido.iea.hmm (Pat Dockrey)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: Help 2nd try tcpip ka9q problem
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:05:18 GMT

I believe that FCC regulations allow the use of any digital code above 50 mhz,
except for unattended traffic forwarding, and subject to appropriate sub-band
restrictions. There are bandwidth requirements, and a code description must be
maintained in the station log.
 
pat  nq7m

 * Origin: Radio Therapy BBS * 509.534.7924 * (1:346/3)