[nos-bbs] AMAZING ! NOS and Thomas Sailer soundcard packet driver ...

[sv1uy]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:53:56 -0500 (CDT), maiko wrote
> Greetings all,
> 
> This is REALLY interesting - You have to read this !!! As an 
> experiment, this took me less than 5 minutes to get working. I'd 
> like to see what it can REALLY do in the field. Very impressive 
> Thomas, my hats off to you.
> 
> Just for the fun of it, I went to Thomas Sailer's page :
> 
>   http://www.baycom.org/~tom/ham/soundmodem/
> 
> installed the soundmodem driver on my fedora 3 box at work :
> 
>    rpm -ivh soundmodem-0.9-1.i386.rpm
> 
> configured it (basic afsk modulator, KISS packet i/o mode) :
> 
>    soundmodemconfig
> 
> started the soundmodem drive :
> 
>    service soundmodem start
> 
> AND then in my autoexec.nos, add something like the following :
> 
>    attach asy soundmodem0 - ax25 vhf 4096 256 1200
>    ifconfig vhf description "sndcard"
> 
> Then ran JNOS, and tried a connect from the JNOS console :
> 
>    c vhf ve4rag
> 
> Amazing !!! Instant packet out the soundcard !!!
> 
> Of course you'll need to build a PTT interface (no big deal),
> and you'll have to experiment with configuration and settings.
> 
> Initial impressions are very good !!! Good job Thomas !
> 
> Maiko Langelaar / VE4KLM


Nice to hear this Maiko.

It seems that JNOS is a very flexible program indeed. Not an old horse.

Keep up the good work OM.

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