laura halliday wrote:

Is pbpg still being developed? wasn't that open source? This might be a good start, if not.

Oh yes, it is. It is in daily use at OZ7SAT - 24/7 on our automatic, unmanned ground station. I made a release of PB/PG for Linux in January of this year. It may be found several places:

http://www.fern.dk/?PB%2FPG (the main site) ftp://ftp.amsat.org/amsat/software/Linux/pbpg-2.2.1.tar.gz ftp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/apps/ham/pbpg-2.2.1.tar.gz

I always thought the pacsat protocol was a very interesting concept and is a piece of technology that deserves to live on.

I have at several occations tried to persuade some of the Cubesat people to use this protocol, but so far to no avail.

Best 73 de Bent/OZ6BL maintainer of PB/PG for Linux