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g4tut
03-17-2008, 08:15 AM
The Outernet Project
The first Beta of the Outernet Server was released on 16th March.
The Outernet Project is a community driven project to create a Linux distribution that links many digital modes of amateur radio. The server software seamlessly links packet radio, high speed multimedia networks to one another using the internet as a backbone.
The Outernet server software acts as a central server for High Speed Multimedia networks that utilize TCP/IP such as 802.11 and D-Star "DD" mode.
Future releases will also support the server running as a packet radio or AX.25 node with worldwide networking using AX.25 in IP encapsulation.
The Outernet Project
http://outernet.wikidot.com/
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K8ERV
03-17-2008, 01:44 PM
If an "innie" is here, can an "outtie be far behind? (Pardon the pun).
TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo
KA5LQJ
03-17-2008, 04:56 PM
Now,
I'm not the brightest crayola in the box, but I'd like to see a Linux program of series of programs that would allow me to "control" my Icom 706MkII-G by a laptop and wireless card so that no matter where I was at home or even in the truck, with the Icom, I could work HF, VHF, and UHF both by voice and other digital modes (PSK-31, etc), look up calls via QRZ and log them into a true "data base" that could be updated to reflect every time I worked that station and additional notes about the QSO.
Digital is all well & good, but not the soul extent of my interest. I still would want to work cw, am, & fm as band authorization allowed. Ham frequencies are tight at best with all the different modes. Unmanned, digital, robot, I-net commercial interest have NO BUSINESS on ham frequencies. Let them go to geo-stationary commercial satellite frequencies above 30 ghz.
Respectfully submitted,
73,
Don/KA5-LQJ
Could someone please tell us what it does? What does it allow us to do that is useful? What can we now do that we were dying without? Since ham radio isn't really multimedia, especially on any one frequency, why do we need a multimedia server?
I have grown to loath jargon crazy programmers with a poor grasp of the English language.
I am sick and tired of hearing things like this - and going to trade shows, touring booths, attending the presentations etc. only to end up without any idea what they are actually selling.
Why not actually speak to us.
With feeling,
Michael Watts WY6K
software company CEO, and venture capitalist
... I'd like to see a Linux program or series of programs that would allow me to "control" my Icom 706MkII-G by a laptop and wireless card so that no matter where I was at home or even in the truck, with the Icom, I could work HF, VHF, and UHF both by voice and other digital modes (PSK-31, etc), look up calls via QRZ and log them into a true "data base" that could be updated to reflect every time I worked that station and additional notes about the QSO.
I agree! It would be really nice to easily control my rigs at home from anywhere via the internet. Now THAT would be useful.
Just think - I could be stuck in a NYC hotel but still operate my rig back home. That would be a useful, sensible use of the internet.
k4avl
03-18-2008, 01:33 AM
I believe that you can do that, at least for the digital modes, with Ham Radio Deluxe in conjunction with a VPN application, or perhaps even more simply.
Yes it would be nice to operate SSB using a mic at a remote laptop over the internet as well.
It would be nice to see an app as comprehensive as HRD for Linux sometime soon, and I'm sure there a enough knowledgeable folks out there to put it all together, in due time.
n5ark
03-18-2008, 02:58 AM
I have used logmein.com in the past for digital modes with my computer /radio at my mothers. ONly problem is the delay is a little longer because it is going to a server and then back to me and not direct. That is possible for a fact. Only thing is you have to have someone physically turn the radio on, open HRD and you are typing..:)
I think it is possible with the VPN just never used it that way..I dont see why not just havent tried it that way...
Anything is possible with todays technology. We have come a long ways since the comodore.
Troy
A nice piece of work - sure love to see non-proprietary solutions!
My concern is now that we have seen what clumsy government programmers in Pakistan did to the Internet via a carelessly released app to block access to certain Internet resources there, what the tyrannical Chinese government is doing vis-a-vis selective blocking of access, and what assorted data-terrorists do every day we know that the Internet is highly vulnerable.
I'd like to see a project like this build a parallel network of Internet-free links based on non-proprietary software and hardware so that Amateur Radio may provide a sustainable communications network for a region, a nation, or multiple nations when the Internet is down.
WDYT?
73, doc KD4E
I agree! It would be really nice to easily control my rigs at home from anywhere via the internet. Now THAT would be useful.
Just think - I could be stuck in a NYC hotel but still operate my rig back home. That would be a useful, sensible use of the internet.
Excuse me if I don't understand what you are wanting but don't we already have that. I use Internet Remote Base (IRB) by W4MQ. With a mic plugged into my soundcard using Windows software program by W4MQ I can connect to IRB stations across the country/world. Talk & listen on the remote ham station as if it was in my shack. Controlling all the functions of the Transceiver plus rotating the antenna.
You can set up the software to run on your home station and PC. When you are away from home it is a simple matter to connect to your very own rig from your Laptop or whatever.
Take a look at: http://www.w4mq.com/indextop.html
73, Bob
WA0LYK
03-21-2008, 03:06 AM
Excuse me if I don't understand what you are wanting but don't we already have that. I use Internet Remote Base (IRB) by W4MQ. With a mic plugged into my soundcard using Windows software program by W4MQ I can connect to IRB stations across the country/world. Talk & listen on the remote ham station as if it was in my shack. Controlling all the functions of the Transceiver plus rotating the antenna.
You can set up the software to run on your home station and PC. When you are away from home it is a simple matter to connect to your very own rig from your Laptop or whatever.
Take a look at: http://www.w4mq.com/indextop.html
73, Bob
I read through the info at the site you gave. I see there is a brief statement about station id but how does one satisfy the following sections requirement when using a US station:
97.17 Application for new license or reciprocal permit for alien amateur licensee.
Are only stations who have a reciprocal permit issued by the fcc allowed to operate these stations located in the US? Are only foreign amateurs within the CEPT agreements allowed to operate?
Vice versa, are the appropriate foreign licensing applications and permits/grants obtained by fcc licensed amateurs that are required when operating a station located in another country?
The web site you gave discusses none of this.
Jim
WA0LYK
I read through the info at the site you gave. I see there is a brief statement about station id but how does one satisfy the following sections requirement when using a US station:
97.17 Application for new license or reciprocal permit for alien amateur licensee.
Are only stations who have a reciprocal permit issued by the fcc allowed to operate these stations located in the US? Are only foreign amateurs within the CEPT agreements allowed to operate?
Vice versa, are the appropriate foreign licensing applications and permits/grants obtained by fcc licensed amateurs that are required when operating a station located in another country?
The web site you gave discusses none of this.
Jim
WA0LYK
Did you send an email to W4MQ and ask these same questions?