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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 04:30:02 PST
From: Packet-Radio Mailing List and Newsgroup <packet-radio@ucsd.edu>
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Subject: Packet-Radio Digest V93 #299
To: packet-radio
Packet-Radio Digest Fri, 10 Dec 93 Volume 93 : Issue 299
Today's Topics:
Help setting up a physics packet-BBS
Packet-Radio Digest V93 #298
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Date: 10 Dec 93 02:59:37 GMT
From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
Subject: Help setting up a physics packet-BBS
To: packet-radio@ucsd.edu
I don't know about the rest of you, or even how many of you there are,
but I'm getting sick and tired of these Digests filled with garbage, a.k.a.
unsubcribe requests from know-nothing lusers. That aired, lets get on air.
I may be involved in a university project in the coming semester to set
up a physics packet-BBS for the benefit of surrounding high school students.
The chairman of the department has asked me to do a little probing for info
on setting up such a system and as I am a little new to ham radio in general
and packet or digital radio in particular I would appreciate any help you
can afford me.
I'm looking for information on radio-modems, personally, I'm leaning
towards the Gracilis Packet-Twin; digital radios, the Packet-Twin comes with
a small dedicated radio that must be factory preset somewhere in the 220MHz
band, but I have no idea where that should be for my area or purposes; OS,
I'd like to see the project use a Linux/JNOS combo, but I still haven't
gotten around to setting up X11R5 on my Linux box so I really don't have
that much Linux experience and I haven't gotten the cash together to try my
own hand at running a packet station, as much as I'd like to, so I have no
experience with JNOS. The system should also be able link into 'the
database' the chairman has, but I don't even know what that is. I suspect
that he wants it to be able to access the Science Library computer system so
the students can search the catalogues for reports and papers from the BBS.
If I can get the project to spring for it, I'd also like to get the $1800
hw/sw package that allows isolated Unix systems to recieve Usenet News via
satelite downlink.
Right now, all I have a little book knowledge and a lot of ambition. I'm
going to browse rtfm.mit.edu and the ham radio lists on Usenet for more info
to pass along to the chairman. If I do a good job of getting him the right
info so he can get the funding for the project, I may end up running this
system.
73 de N9THG (it'd be Nice To Have a Gateway)
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/ Matt Garrett N9THG, a.k.a. Cybernaut \
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[ Sequent(Unix): garrett@judy.indstate.edu | Physics/Computer Science major ]
[ "Another victory for truth, justice, and | Indiana State University ]
\ automatic weapons." -- button | future astrophysicist /
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Date: 9 Dec 93 15:27:56 GMT
From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
Subject: Packet-Radio Digest V93 #298
To: packet-radio@ucsd.edu
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End of Packet-Radio Digest V93 #299
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