Legal Disclaimer and Reasoning The VARA FM Licence states : “You agree that you will not attempt to reverse compile, modify, translate, or disassemble the SOFTWARE in whole or in part.” Thousands of amateur radio operators across the United States are using VARA FM, and VARA HF. This issue is that in the United States is that we also have […]
I know this will not come as an easy pill to swallow for most people who come across this blog post. I implore you to read with an open mind. Hear me out and then build your argument in the comment section. This post is an effort to help guide those who may be looking into packet radio, to help […]
This is by far the most painful portion of the packet radio journey. As we get more feature specific in the packet radio rabbit hole, there’s less and less useful documentation. At the point of writing, there are almost no definitive BPQ resources for a simple Mail Network Topology or Point A->Z of node-to-node mail forwarding with correct addressing, and […]
In part two of the live packet radio series build, we set up VARA and Direwolf in such a way that they can share COM/PTT ports, as well as run multiple instances of each per radio. Before moving onto the applications, we need to make sure that our TNCs (Dire wolf and VARA) will auto start if a reboot is […]
In order to forward email from your BPQ32 or LinBPQ node, you will first need to register with Winlink as a SysOp. You can find more information about registering and becoming a Winlink SysOp (System Operator) here. Once you have been granted access to the CMS Servers, you will be able to allow your node users to send email to […]
Click here for Part 1 Setting up Remote Desktop with NoMachine In part one of this build, I had configured windows remote desktop so we can access our packet note remotely. Windows remote desktop protocol comes with a few issues when it comes to our packet node. Mainly, you will notice that the audio devices get disabled when we remote […]
I wish I could make this one simple, but we are getting into complex territory. Please read the instructions and follow along carefully. This is not something I recommend doing without knowing your way around Linux, and so the basics are not covered(it would be too long). this should let you share the same soundcard between direwolf and other apps […]
First, I want to give all credit for this blog post and script to this website(blog.radioartisan.com), and the ham who created it (K3NG). The only reason I am posting it here is to walk through the database installation portion, and show how the database can be expanded onto to include extra information, as well as add some more detailed documentation. […]
As a last post to the BBS portion of the packet radio series, I wanted to give a few ways you can actually connect to a BBS node within Linux and windows. If you want to setup your own node with BPQ, you can follow the guide here. Connecting to a BBS Node in Windows OR Linux with Paracon Thanks […]
This is a short add-on to the tutorials I’ve already done on setting up either LinBPQ on Linux, or BPQ32 on Windows. The following guide will show you how to perform Node to Node Linking via IP on both BPQ32 and LinBPQ. This will allow you to fill in gaps in RF, or link distant running nodes together so that […]