[OZAPRS] Rasbian

[Norm McMillan]

Bob,
first, the reply goes to the group, not just me.

Second:, path. I use Wide2-2 here in Mildura. I can hit our digi with a
dummy load! (VK2RBX, across the river in NSW)
Just checked APRS.fi, your last report was a year ago out on the
Cambewarra  road.!

I spent quite some time in Nowra back in the 80s and 90s. We had a voice
repeater and digi in the hut under the mast on Cambewarra. VK2RST as I
recall, tho I see Gladesville has that call now. My memory may be off too.

I guess that the Shoalhaven Radio Club is long gone, but I see a Mid South
Coast Club with assets at Nowra Hill. ( I used to work up there as a RADAR
tech 'bout a million years ago!) No digi there?

I've got vk3xci, soon to be vk3wrm, set up as an igate. I take off-air from
VK2RBX and pipe it to the internet using an old dell box, Ubuntu, xastir
and an old Tiny 2. The Pi-3 and a hardware tnc  (TNC-Pi) will replace it
real soon. I'm not real keen on soundmodem, direwolf et al, never seem to
be able to set them up properly.

So there's something to go on with. There's lotsa expertise in this group,
sometimes it just takes asking the right question.

norm
vk3xci



On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Bob <vk2byf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Norm & others, thank you all. I just got control back of my RPi via
> SSH. Errors in /etc/network/interfaces file due to a flakey keyboard.
>
> Your method seems almost too easy to be true but I'm familiar with the
> apt-get routine. I think I'll have to install direwolf first.
> I have direwolf and xastir running on a laptup with linux Mint. I can see
> packets on the direwolf terminal and on message views etc
>
> where I get confused is how to set the correct path for TX. I can't see
> the options I want like WIDE2-1 as I'm close to VK2HIM
> Also I can beacon ok but I don't seem to appear on the aprs.fi map either
> with QF55hd or =3451.00S/15036.00E/- blah blah blah
> Ultimately I would like to bounce my signal off the ISS with
> ARISS,SGATE,WIDE2-1
> Even my VK2BYF-9 tracker in the car works sometimes and not at other
> times. I've had it for years. I suspect maybe a lack of relays, oops
> WIDE1-1 stations in this area 150km south of Sydney. Ham radio is pretty
> dead down here.
>
> Even the destination APRS apparently is no longer correct. I see lots of
> weird destinations when I look at the RAW packet view with xastir.
> I've done a lot of searching on the Internet but keep finding data which
> is not up to date.
>
> I have a RTL-SDR running with gqrx and the inbuild AFSK 1200 decoder
> working quiet well so I can look at my own packets. What I really need is a
> source for up to date configuration details.
>
> Installing maps is another issue which I'll need to address again later.
>
> The old brain is struggling to keep up with too many new things. I only
> transitioned from Windoze to Linux a few months ago.
>
> Thanks again ( will this go to everybody or just Norm?)
>
> Bob vk2byf in Nowra
>
>
>
> On 02/07/16 14:03, Norm McMillan wrote:
>
>> G'day Bob,
>> my experience, your mileage may differ.
>>
>>  I'
>>
>
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