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

Sun Oct 1 11:00:05 UTC 2017

Bob,

Digipeating through PFS3-1 is on, but it would be really nice to use the
digipeater for live QSOs and not unattended beacons.

73, Edson PY2SDR

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 8:31 PM, Robert Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu> wrote:

> 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 <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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