[OZAPRS] Re: Gating HF

[David and Justine Olsen]

Tony

DigiNed sounds great. Once I have settled in, I would like to set up  
a SatGate as well, if there is ever going to be any more APRS  
activity on Sat.

David


On 2 Apr 2009, at 12:28, Tony Hunt wrote:

> 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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