[OZAPRS] Plug computer
Ray Wells
vk2tv at exemail.com.au
Fri Dec 11 18:45:38 EST 2009
Thanks Gavin,
I'd forgotten about that, despite lots of traffic on the aprs SIG (I
think) quite recently.
Ray vk2tv
Gavin Rogers wrote:
> Tony Hunt wrote:
>
>> I wonder if you could use this to create a remote low powered Igate ? I
>> bet you could. These are $99 US ..
>>
>
> I bought a Buffalo wireless router from Retravision for all of $45. Many
> 802.11 wireless routers based on a Broadcom chipsets will run an
> embedded Linux distribution like OpenWRT. OpenWRT has a prepackaged
> APRS-IS server and most of these boards give you at least 1 serial port.
>
> If you have an available wireless or Ethernet Internet connection
> available, then presto, you have yourself an APRS-IS server.
>
> If you want to use a USB 3G modem, then many of the NAS devices out
> there run Linux and have USB support. Check out http://www.openwrt.org/
>
> I haven't tested this setup yet (building the MAX232 circuit to
> interface to the router's TTL serial port) but I don't anticipate any
> major roadblocks so far.
>
>
>
> 73
> Gavin.
>
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