WinRPR: Saving Robust Packet from oblivion
The creator of Robust Packet has graciously ported a form of TNC code to Windows making Robust Packet available as a sound card mode.
News
The latest updates and happenings concerning the Virginia Packet Network of Fauquier County, Virginia.
Dire Wolf and Outpost PM
Here’s one way to combine the Dire Wolf packet modem software with Outpost PM for a truly 21st century approach to packet radio.
June 2020 Status Report
2m port frequency moved from 145.030 to 144.930 MHz to avoid QRM. NTS a go. HF Packet works… sort of.
Letter to Laura Smith concerning 97.205(b)
We wrote a letter to the FCC’s Laura Smith to ascertain if 97.205(b) allows AX.25 repeating on 2m as is apparently the case for 6m.
Full Duplex Packet
Being the 21st century and all, it’s time to put the menace of missing transmitter syndrome to bed… if packet is to be viable once again.
Hardware hacking our motherboards… now a thing?
Startling revelations of exploits built directly into internet hardware highlighting just how precarious Internet security has become in the age of offshore manufacturing.
Audio spur above RPR spectrum
The SCS Tracker DSP TNC works very well, but we noticed some additional energy transmitted above and below the primary Robust Packet 500 Hz bandwidth.
Radio Relay International explains themselves
Representatives from the newly formed Radio Relay International speak with Ham Radio Now to provide perspectives on where NTS radiograms fit into today’s amateur and non-amateur commo landscape.
If ‘COWS’ could fly
Flying cell sites bring connectivity back to the masses post disaster and companies lead the innovation.
Another nail in the EmComm coffin
Savvy products from notable vendors continue the trend of empowering anyone well removed from cell and amateur radio infrastructure with communications capabilities.
HF packet system or bust
Waiting for a spot on the mountain shouldn’t prevent adding tremendously useful HF access to the VAPN system so that’s exactly what we are going to do in the lowlands.
September 2017 status report
Negotiations for hill top space continue while we consider adding HF to the current 2m prototype.
Final reckoning of several Field Day NTS radiograms
Three months after the 2017 ARRL Field Day, several radiograms are finally delivered to their recipients despite the mystery revolving around moving NTS messages digitally.