New subject: [amsat-bb] WISP replacement? (or Live digipeating?)

30 Sep 2017

It was possible to enable digipeating in a PACSAT protocol satellite.  I
wonder if it should be considered?
I know I'd like it... ;-)

Live Real-time satellite operations.

I remember 20 years ago, I worked for a month and finally got a PACSAT
ground station to work.  Did one pass.  Once I saw that it was a hands off,
automatic process, with nothing to do during the pass but just watch it
work, I lost interest and never went back...

I wanted something live...

Bob, WB4APR.

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Douglas Quagliana &lt;dquagliana(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

...
  All,
    I'd like to get pbpg running with a soundcard modem on Linux. First, I'm
 just trying to get pbpg running.

    I was able to download pbpg-2.2.1.tar.gz from the AMSAT website, and
 after a little work I got it to compile and got it installed, but it
 doesn't seem to run properly on my Linux box. I have kernel version 4.4.75
 on this machine, but I could try another kernel version or a completely
 different distro quite easily.

    I strongly suspect I'm "doing it wrong" and there's some more
missing
 setup and config (for example, the "configure/make/make install" didn't
 create the control FIFO (/etc/pbpg/pb-fifo) nor any of the
 /var/spool/pbpg/satellite-name directories.

    I think I'm missing a required step.  Is there more install/config
 documentation somewhere besides what comes with pbpg-2.2.1.tar.gz ?

 Douglas KA2UPW/5

 On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Edson W. R. Pereira &lt;ewpereira(a)gmail.com
   wrote:

  The Linux version of PB and PG talks to a pseudo
TNC using the native  Linux
  AX.25 sockets. It has been more than two decades
since I have last used  the
 > native AX.25 sockets and, as far as I can remember, it was not trivial. I
 > suggest modifying the PB and PB software to speak the AX.25 KISS over TCP
 > protocol and talk with DireWolf, a software TNC that implements the G3RUH
 > GFSK 9600 bps modem. DireWolf can be found here:

 > https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf
   > I will try modifying PB and PG to use
the KISS protocol as soon as I can
 > spare some time.
   > DireWolf could be used with a classic
transceiver via soundcard and also
 to
  a SDR receiver such as GQRX or GNURadio and a
classic (or SDR)  transmitter.
  The software modem could also be implemented
directly in GNUradio as  well.
   > It will be a blast to operate a
PACSAT BBS again.
   > 73, Edson PY2SDR

 > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Paul Stoetzer &lt;n8hm(a)arrl.net&gt; wrote:
   > > The Linux tools (PacSatTools and
PB/PG) are distributed as source
 > > code. That code could potentially serve as a guide for how to encode
 > > files and interface with a  KISS TNC.
 >   > > See
https://www.amsat.org/falconsat-3/
 >   > > 73,
 >   > > Paul, N8HM
 >   > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at
11:18 AM, Robert Switzer via AMSAT-BB
 > > &lt;amsat-bb(a)amsat.org&gt; wrote:
 > > > Don't know if this is opensource ( a quick search only found the old
 > > WiSP32 download setup.exe), but this as well as other old programs (I'm
 > > thinking Nova, but perhaps others?) would be best
 > > > served by getting it out there in the public domain.
 > > > The other option is to reverse engineer if someone has a working
 copy.
 > >  
 > >  
 > >   >
>   > > >     On Thursday,
September 28, 2017 9:19 AM, Andrew Glasbrenner <
 > > glasbrenner(a)mindspring.com&gt; wrote:
 > >  
 > >   > > >  For all our talented coders out there, a
replacement for the
 venerable
 > > WISP
 > > > software would be well received, and allow much more utilization of
 > this
 > > > satellite resource. Anyone interested?
 > >  
 > >  
 > >   > >
> 73, Drew KO4MA
 > >   > > >
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