[amsat-bb] WISP replacement?

[John Melton]

I am away cycling in Italy and France at the moment but will try to help if
needed when I get home next week.

It has been a long time since I wrote the original code!

-- John g0orx/n6lyt

On 30 Sep 2017 21:12, "Douglas Quagliana" <dquagliana at gmail.com> 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 <ewpereira at 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 <n8hm at arrl.net> 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
> > > <amsat-bb at amsat.org> 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 at mindspring.com> 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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