Hi to all.

This is half OT, sorry for that.

As you may know Cuba has (now) a growing network infrastructure for the National Ham Radio Association with at least a node with ADSL in each province and a internet connected central link in Havana; I have managed to make strong links with the Senior System Administrator (I'm a sysadmin also) and we are willing to put more ham related services in the net mostly for local users that connect to it via dialup connections (almost 30% of the hams are registered) and why not for international users.

We tested and setup a DXcluster (Linked DXSpider node) that was a big success among our users.

We are now thinking on kind of internet connected APRS server that acts as a gate (kind of proxy) for the internal network and then a first node on my city (Camagüey, 500 Km east of Havana, FL11BJ) to test a on-air APRS and link it to the internal APRS server and I was thinking on setting a VHF packet on 145.825 Mhz as a bi-directional Sat-gate.

The main questions are this: (Any advice, critics, links, help is appreciated)

* There are any real interest in a VHF APRS SAT GATE in my location (FL11BJ) ? or it will be more noise in the net... * Any lead in how to mount a internet only aprs server and how to link it to the global APRS internet network? * Any other suggestion on what network-ham-related project we can setup on the national network described on the first paragraph? * Any other list/reflector where this can be interesting... ?

The OS by choice will be Linux (Debian 9 or Ubuntu LTS), we plan to use direwolf as software modem on linux, we are seeking for a rbpi to test as we have no real hardware right now but a trusty Yaesu FTL-2011 VHF radio, we are on the plan stage and seeking for advice.

I'm all ears,

Pavel Milanes, CO7WT, 73