Conquering Outpost Packet Message Manager
Outpost Packet Message Manager promises a familiar user interface to good ol’ packet BBS messages, but with a non-trivial learning curve in setup.
The Internet Menace
Like Stephen King’s “The Mist,” a fog has settled over the Internet landscape making the mere act of stepping outside one’s DMZ a potentially dangerous act. The fog only gets worse with time leaving stopgap, protempore, Internet independent messaging systems like AX.25 packet more viable than ever.
SuperServer 5018A-TN4
Reasons for selection of and adventures of setting up a Supermicro SuperServer 5018A-TN4 for the VAPN main machine for hosting BPQ32 applications.
November 2016 status report
What’s been happening in the VAPN development. Topics: Test system up, 2nd Tracker, Rackmount PC, Donations, Organization.
SCS Tracker DSP TNC at 1200 baud
Our interaction with SCS engineers reaps an improvement in 1200 AFSK performance in their Tracker DSP Terminal Node Controller yielding one TNC with packet modes for DC to daylight.
Radio Relay Revolution?
Fracturing in the NTS organizational paradigm has spawned a well organized resistance movement based on quantifiable successes in the Cascadia Rising FEMA simulation. Viva la revolución?!?!?
NTS organizational kerfuffle
What do FEMA, the ARRL and the National Traffic System (NTS) have in common? A lawsuit of course.
2m rollout opportunity possibly Fall 2016
Opportunity knocks The curators of the local Fauquier 145.730 MHz packet node decommissioned their system on the very same hill we hope to rollout our version of the Virginia Packet Network. The antenna and cavity filter are still in place. This makes our 2m packet frequency open for use with relative ease. With some lobbying efforts from … Read more
MAIPN MeshNet featured at Berryville
The local Mesh Net effort in Virginia was at Berryville under a new name of Mid-Atlantic IP Network – MAIPN.
Berryville Ham Fest 2016
John and maybe Mark will attend the Berryville, Virginia ham fest this weekend and will have our poster setup at a tail-gate spot weather permitting. We look forward to continuing discussions with the ham population as we continue to vet the usefullness of our VAPN concepts.
Where AX.25 fits into the ARS digital landscape
Any feasibility study needs an assessment of the competing technology landscape. Following our doctrine the following figure shows the data rate vs. frequency (as wavelength) of several ham inspired digital methods. This graphic is used elsewhere in the main pages of this site. It shows the general trend of high speed with higher frequency. More digital … Read more
Genesis moment for VAPN prototype
VAPN volunteers worked through set up issues and parameter adjustments to arrive at a nice Eureka moment in the progress towards a Virginia Packet Network roll out.
Comparing 1200 and 9600 in the TM-D710 during ATGP
The organizers of the Appalachian Trail Golden Packet exercise switched from 1200 to 9600 bps in their Kenwood APRS gear.
KY Packet Network Going Dark
WA4ZKO posted the upcoming dismantling of the various components of the Kentucky Packet Network and other amateur radio assets on the informative web blog… https://kypn.wordpress.com/ Twenty-five years is a good long run and we wish the KYPN folks the best in their endeavors. The enormous contribution of technical knowhow formally contained in the above web site … Read more
Manassas Ham Fest 2016
KX4O attended the June 19th Manassas Ham Fest to spread the word about the existence of the Virginia Packet Network.