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

[maiko at pcs.mb.ca]

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