[OZAPRS] Re: Gating HF

[Tony Hunt]

Robert,

I think the Server and Port questions are covered.

Software and setups.

I am using a old laptop with Win98SE still as a APRS machine. I dont run the
Igate here in Adelaide normallly. On HF I have a PK232 usually but have a
MFJ1278 as well as sound card software (MixW) that Ive messed with.

For both SATGATE and HF GATE I use Uiview with AGW and Digi_Ned for windows.
Most of the time I use BPQ32 instead of AGW but for simplicity lets call it
AGW for now.
Uiview does not Do a cross port digipeat to VHF to get the traffic to the
Igate locally.
I use Digi_Ned to achieve this. A different config for Sat/HF which is
changable in about 60 seconds.
AGWuiDigi is another package that can do a Cross Port digipeat and is
configurable and can be logged onto the internet feed as a Igate but when I
tried it recently even on XP it had issues and was not really stable. Its a
pity. I wish he would fix it.

The laptop only has 1 RS232 serial port so I use a TNC-X on a USB port for
2m which seems to go well. This leaves the RS232 port available for the
HF/Sat TNC or PTT for the sound card.

I have also in the past used a sound card inteface on HF and a Virtual
serial port to feed it back into AGW as a KISS TNC and then used Digi_Ned to
cross port it.
The web site for Digi_Ned is here http://home.hetnet.nl/~pe1dnn/#DIGI_NED

You can probably tell I like Digi_Ned. Its light weight and very
configurable.

Tony Hunt VK5AH

----- Original Message ----- 

> > On 2 Apr 2009, at 09:11, Robert Thirkettle wrote:
> >
> >> Hi All I need some guidance with sorting out my HF gateway at
> >> present I
> >> take HF data to VHF just using a TNC it all works but there is no
> >> tractability through the system as my TNC does not insert its
> >> callsign
> >> plus I am going to switch to a SCS TNC when it arrives at the end of
> >> next week. This TNC is only a single port so I will need to gate in
> >> software. As I now have broadband in the shack it's just as easy to
> >> take
> >> the HF straight to the net.
> >>
> >> How are the others doing their HF gating? I prefer not to reinvent
> >> the
> >> wheel so some guidance would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> I need to know
> >> 1 what server to use
> >> 2 What port to connect to
> >> 3 what particular program is best
> >>


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