I had a VHF/UHF radio I’d gotten for this purpose and connected a digirig and Raspberry Pi to it to set up a minimal BBS. It doesn’t get very good range (current antenna location is under my PC desk) but it’s very fun to play with. I did this instead of working on my kernel driver project the last couple days. Thinking about setting up door games, but not sure how well ANSI would play with certain terminals and not sure if it might cause my radio to overheat on TX. Especially if I get my wish and a lot of people connect to it.
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I hope u get your wish, packet radio is so cool
It’s completely dead in my area :(. Even the last APRS repeater I could reach shut down like a year or 2 ago (maybe someone died :/). APRS is primitive garbage but it’s at least widely available, the last time a packet BBS was around my city was prolly like 3 decades ago
Modulation techniques and erasure codes and compression and more have become so much better in the last 20 years especially cuz of cell phones but amateur packet radio seems stuck in the past… It’s a little cwazy to me ppl (ancient Winlink boomers) are still doing plain 1970s ass AX.25 over HF to send e-mails to their buddies at 1 7-bit byte bauds per second to say literally “HELLO FROM MY HAM CAVE AGAIN FOR THE 1 BILLIONTH TIME Q467MN 73” or whatever tf and the only ppl “innovating” in this area are just spreading around microcontrollers with attached off-the-shelf, commercial, proprietary ISM band transceiver chips around them >w< (Meshtastic, which I like, to be clear)
Uhh uhh this is turning into an unsolicited rant but yeah :3
Also how is your kernel driver project going? I think I missed a reply from u, I have rly been lacking in spoons recently…
I like Meshtastic, but I’d really like to see more Reticulum going around on LoRa. And I think packet radio is just the coolest thing having been born on the tail end of the dial-up days. I keep an HT around to listen to weather stations and we even have a storm-spotters’ repeater network around here that I like to listen to when it’s stormy. Also, I’m trans and hate my voice, so digital modes are nice. I also enjoy setting my HF rig up to listen for SSTV and then just leave it for a while and come back.
The driver project I think is going okay? I discovered that a lot of the structures and preprocessor macros in other drivers is just there for completion’s sake and isn’t actually used by the driver code. So I’m thinking I won’t need to have quite as much code as I first thought. It is still a little daunting, though, trying to parse through the evil Realtek Linux driver code.
I’ve never heard of Reticulum, this looks cool!
Also, I’m trans and hate my voice, so digital modes are nice.
This is so real lol. I also have a lot of mic anxiety >w< also frankly (charitably)-a lot- of hams doing voice aren’t worth talking to >w<
Would rly like to see other local on-the-air social spaces in amateur radio than repeaters
I didn’t get enough sleep before work and I’m crashing hard rn but I saw your other msg and I will DM u :3
