T + J Williams | 2 Nov 2007 07:24

twcw 1.3 release

Hi
Version 1.3 of twcw has been release and can be found at:
http://wa0eir.ham.org

This version has improved audio thanks to some code from
"qrq" by DJ1YFK.
For a complete description and screen shots, see the web site.

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Curt, WE7U | 6 Nov 2007 19:55
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New Xastir Release


Project: XASTIR  (xastir)
Package: xastir-stable
Date   : 2007-11-06 09:20

Project "XASTIR" ('xastir') has released the new version of package
'xastir-stable'.
You can download it from SourceForge.net by following this link:
<https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=45562&release_id=552245>
or browse Release Notes and ChangeLog by visiting this link:
<https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=552245>

Xastir Homepage:  <http://www.xastir.org>

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Matti Aarnio | 6 Nov 2007 20:49
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Re: aprsdigi

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 08:24:45PM -0400, Michel Beaudry wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been asked to setup a aprs digi and igate in our area; xastir
> seems to function well for Igate purposes.
> 
> Does aprsdigi support the new paradgim widen-N path and the SSn-N PATH and how
> to configure it?

If all you really need is receive-only, then a very early test version might
interest you:

       http://ham.zmailer.org/oh2mqk/aprsazel/aprsg-ng-v0.02.tar.gz

It is very small ANSI-C program (or perhaps C90 standard), which on Linux
system can also receive packets from local AX.25 network (apparently).
Will relay everything (sans couple simple rules) to configured APRS-IS
server.

It does not use _any_ external libraries aside of glibc on Linux.
It runs at _any_ POSIX system with serial port(s)[*] and IP network stack.
At Linux it will listen on internal AX.25 network if such is available.

*) I use USB serial port cable to my KISS TNC.

It is so early a beast that I got it running for the most part a week ago,
and now it has been doing my local  Rx -> KISSTNC -> Rx-i-gate -> APRS-IS
processing.   At the moment the TNC must be talking plain basic KISS.
The TODO -file has many important things, like usage manual...

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Matti Aarnio | 6 Nov 2007 21:08
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Re: AX25 tools and packages

Picking old topic, but HAM things in Linux are not changeing very rapidly.

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:07:50PM +0200, Bernard Pidoux wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have also been working for a while on libax25, ax25-apps and ax25-tools 
> adaptation for compilation with 2.6 kernels and recent compilers.
>
> All is working quite well together with Rose-FPAC switching node and LinFBB 
> BBS applications with last 2.6.22 stable kernel.
>
> I would be glad to share my experience and results with other developpers. 
> We could compare our solutions.
>
> My work is publically available here :
>
> AX25
> http://f6bvp.free.fr/logiciels/ax25/libax25-0.0.11.2src_f6bvp.tgz
> http://f6bvp.free.fr/logiciels/ax25/ax25-tools-0.0.8.2src_f6bvp.tgz
> http://f6bvp.free.fr/logiciels/ax25/ax25-apps-0.0.6.2src_f6bvp.tgz

Thanks!   Recently Fedora added(*) AX.25 / ROSE / NETROM protocols, and
many HAM drivers into their kernel, and now I am looking into making
up to date utilities for it.

*) .. after I bugzillaed them about the issue.

You didn't do much changes on  libax25, I see...

> ROSE-FPAC
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Matti Aarnio | 6 Nov 2007 21:52
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listen -utility vs. aprsd and its treatment of AX.25 sockets..


   rx_socket = socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_PACKET, htons(proto));

   tx_socket = socket(PF_AX25, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)

Where the 'proto' is either ETH_P_AX25  or ETH_P_ALL.

In the  'listen'  utility the proto is  ETH_P_AX25  unless '-a' option
is given, then it is ETH_P_ALL.  In  'aprsd' it is always ETH_P_ALL.

Given explanation is that ETH_P_AX25 sees only incoming packets, while
ETH_P_ALL sees also outgoing ones.   Presuming that I am only interested
in AX.25 packets but do want to know also outgoing frames, which one
I should use -- or is the commentary on this utilities sources wrong ?

  73 de Matti, OH2MQK
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Hamish Moffatt | 6 Nov 2007 22:00
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Re: aprsdigi

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:49:25PM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 08:24:45PM -0400, Michel Beaudry wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have been asked to setup a aprs digi and igate in our area; xastir
> > seems to function well for Igate purposes.
> > 
> > Does aprsdigi support the new paradgim widen-N path and the SSn-N PATH and how
> > to configure it?
> 
> If all you really need is receive-only, then a very early test version might
> interest you:
> 
>        http://ham.zmailer.org/oh2mqk/aprsazel/aprsg-ng-v0.02.tar.gz

If you only need read-only gating, then aprsmon from the aprsdigi package 
would also suit.

What will aprsg-ng do eventually?

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt | 6 Nov 2007 22:04
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Re: listen -utility vs. aprsd and its treatment of AX.25 sockets..

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:52:47PM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote:
>    rx_socket = socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_PACKET, htons(proto));
> 
>    tx_socket = socket(PF_AX25, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)
> 
> Where the 'proto' is either ETH_P_AX25  or ETH_P_ALL.
> 
> 
> In the  'listen'  utility the proto is  ETH_P_AX25  unless '-a' option
> is given, then it is ETH_P_ALL.  In  'aprsd' it is always ETH_P_ALL.

When I added AX.25 sockets functionality to aprsd, I "leveraged" the
code from listen, so you should expect them to be the same.

I can't think now why aprsd would need to monitor outgoing frames
though. Perhaps so that it hears packets sent by other AX.25
applications running on the same host eg aprsdigi. However it does add
the requirement to run as root which aprsd might not have otherwise.

Hamish
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Matti Aarnio | 7 Nov 2007 11:12
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Re: aprsdigi

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 08:00:27AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
....
> > If all you really need is receive-only, then a very early test version might
> > interest you:
> > 
> >        http://ham.zmailer.org/oh2mqk/aprsazel/aprsg-ng-v0.02.tar.gz
> 
> If you only need read-only gating, then aprsmon from the aprsdigi package 
> would also suit.
> 
> What will aprsg-ng do eventually?

What we need here is:

  - Multiple receive-only TNCs at sites to be gated into APRS-IS without
    needing individual callsigns at each port, or much of any callsigns.

A bit of backgrounder:

  - Automatic transmitters have yearly license fees, thus building coverage
    with them does cost more - and crowds the frequencies with transmissions

  - Receive only is free of license fees - anybody can put a net connected
    receiver on their HF tower / house / highraise  to densify receiver
    network - surprisingly many are willing, as long as it uses minimal
    little electrical power  (this includes people just interested in
    amateur radio, and those with beginners licenses)

  - Repeaters could be used "co-receiver" for some APRS Rx applications
    in our bands - the european 144.800 MHz APRS slot is on the pass-band
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Bernard Pidoux | 8 Nov 2007 12:18
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Re: AX25 tools and packages

Hi Matti,

You are right. I performed minimal changes in order to make the 
necessary adaptation to 2.6 kernel.
I did not want to break things.

Concerning LinFBB and Rose-Fpac applications, I made some modifications.
See respective "Changes" files.

FBB :
http://f6bvp.free.fr/logiciels/BBS-f6fbb/xd704o-src.tgz
http://f6bvp.free.fr/logiciels/BBS-f6fbb/xd704o_i386.tgz
Rose-FPAC :
http://f6bvp.free.fr/logiciels/rose-fpac/fpac327-11src.tgz
http://f6bvp.free.fr/logiciels/rose-fpac/fpac327-12src.tgz
http://f6bvp.free.fr/logiciels/rose-fpac/fpac327-12_i386.tgz

Please refere to FPAC MINI HOWTO for installation procedure :
http://rose.fpac.free.fr/MINI-HOWTO/

73 de Bernard, f6bvp

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Matti Aarnio wrote :
> Picking old topic, but HAM things in Linux are not changeing very rapidly.
>
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:07:50PM +0200, Bernard Pidoux wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
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Phil | 9 Nov 2007 13:41

Soundmedem-.10 file not uncompressing

Hello,

Having recently renewed my interest in amateur radio I decided to have
another look at APRS.

After successfully installing the latest versions of the ax25 files I have
run into a problem with soundmodem-.10. I downloaded the tar.gz file from 
the baycom site but ite seems to have a problem, as follows:

tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Can anyone offer a suggestion?

By the way, an older version (soundmodem-.7) that I've used in the past
uncompress without any problems.

Regards,
Phil.

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