Modern Introduction to Packet Radio - APRS BBS TCP/IP AX25 and NPR 

Hopefully I do it justice. Glad to have you here!

I honestly think that number is growing. I think we may see a resurgence of packet radio use.

Glad you think so. Hopefully the rest of the series will be clear and concise.

Thank you very much. I'm glad so many people still appreciate packet. I hope I can get more people on board.

Hopefully I can make the resource I wish I had when I started. APRS has definitely stood the test of time.

Good luck on your exam! I'm glad to hear that. The rabbit hole is definitely going to get deep. There's lots of things you can do in amateur radio.

Just got my ticket last November. Having lots of fun with ham radio. Good luck!!!!

Best of irish luck to ya pal with your exam.

Thank you for watching it!

Glad you liked it! 73, KN4MKB

I didn't realize so many people wanted this. I'll make it a good one.

I think it's making a comeback. Especially after the HF data rate restrictions lift.

Good luck on your studies!

You're one of the few people posting modern packet radio related content with followable documentation. I've found your tncattach related content useful, and will possibly make use of your AWG rust code in the near future.

Welcome to the hobby! Hopefully I can provide a clear path. 73 KN4MKB.

Hope I don't disappoint!

@@ModernHam Not a chance!

And totally unrelated to the video series: Come over to Mastodon! A lot of us don't do the twitter thing anymore. There are ham radio instances you'd probably like. One here in North America is run by N6MTS. OK... done nagging you now.

I may check it out in the future. Thanks for the tip!

I might give it a try. I've been off a lot of traditional social media lately besides for RU-vid.

Hopefully more to come! Thanks!

I missed the heyday just due to age. But I love the technology. Wish there was more of a community around it. But this might get some more nodes up.

I'm glad I could help!

Glad you liked it!

Glad you liked it!

Hope you get a packet node up and running!

It's rough to sort through when it comes to older technology. But I don't want the sprit of it all to die with those websites in time. It's also about preservation for me. If nobody recreates those guides for modern times, that information can get lost to time, which sucks.

Makes me wish I were around during those times to see it all when it was the most popular.

Glad the video could be helpful! There's one more set of packet videos out over the next few weeks covering some more advanced stuff.

It's confusing to me and I grew up with them. Things have just changed so much, most of it really needed translated.

I'll check it out and try and get it added once we get to the BBS part of the series. Thanks for the info. You got some cool looking videos on the subject.

Thank you very much. That means a lot. I hope you will like the series.

Oh they are coming.

Glad you liked it!

73! KN4MKB

BBS/IP will be at the tail end, but I'll get there in a week or two.

wait what.. this is a new video? Perfect!

@@BeavistheLizard well be digging into TNCs this coming week.

I have a tiny 2 tnc and a Kam KPC-4 dual radio TNC be ace to fire them up and get them talking to each other or something.. I will be tuned in! - Thanks for the reply!@@ModernHam

I hadn't thought of that. Thanks for the insight. Yeah it would take quite a while to transfer that type of stuff.

Thanks for the perspective. Considering packet began as a pre Internet (as we know it today) communication solution, it definitely has the same purpose and the same overall ideas. A lot of those ideas are lost now because the majority of packet is done via aprs and the majority of new people are introduced through locked off TNCs built into radios with only aprs functionality. Right off the bat, packet gets more overhead and high level use than it's original low level protocols and technology can support. As more protocols and applications are built on, the idea of the modem and basic data links are lost. I hope that as I get I to the BBS stuff, and TCP/IP I can convey that more.

As much as I don't like the fact VARA is closed source, this has been tested many times on HF and FM. VARA completely crushes traditional packet in both speed, distance and robustness. Not only does it beat AX25, but its predecessor FX25 as well. Winlink has papers documenting the results at various distances. That said, traditional packet is still a useful form of data communication.

@@ModernHam I've had different experiences. There are a few VARA servers in my area and I am not able to reach any but 1. Packet 1200 on the other hand I've reached 45 miles with. I live in FL where it's flat.

the NPR modems do not need any additional software, just plug in an Ethernet cable. But the onboard chips are for the 70cm ham band.

Be safe out there. Hope you found it useful.

Sounds like a lot of us are in the same boat. Maybe packet will make a comeback!

What an exiting time that would have been to be a ham. I'd love to get my hands on one of those old commodores, pair it with a CRT monitor and a hardware tnc and make an old fashioned packet radio bbs.

You can swap those arduinos out with a few pi's and use existing software like dire wolf to do so.

Sure, you can download it at themodernham.com/downloads/

ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND. @@ModernHam

It will show them, but won't log them into a file unless you tell it to. Video will probably be out tomorrow all about creating a direwolf igate/repeater

@@ModernHam thanks for answering I appreciate it and I appreciate you. I happen to think about something. You can redirect the output of those old command files and I might give that a try after a bit busy right now. If I just put a the command to start direwolf and place a greater than symbol I might be able to redirect it into a text file

It's making a comeback around the globe I think. Hopefully I can make it a little easier for those looking to start back up after a few videos.

@@ModernHamWe have had non members of our club over hear our repeater conversations and ask about getting involved. This is a great video.

Not sure if this is a troll comment, or if you are genuinely upset/offended over something so trivial. Either way, I told myself I would confront this type of toxicity in the hobby head on when I see it, so that others who are new or younger see that comments like this don't represent the hobby. I've pinned your comment to the top as people like you give good opportunity to show some of the underlining ageism and toxicity that affect the hobby in a blatant way that can be deciphered for others to understand. That way when they hear the not so blatant remarks, they can see the commonalities. You got your low-blows in, I've got mine. Lets see if you have anything valuable to add, or you're just here to Ad hominem with name calling and general toxicity in a space where everyone else seems to be having a great time. Allow me to address your criticism. " Apart from a standalone network in the event of 'disasters', I fail to see much of any future in it." Well, sure if you discount a major role it may have, then it wouldn't seem like it's very useful wouldn't it? The same could be said "Apart from the fact an antenna radiates electromagnetic waves, I don't see any use in it" My point being, it's word salad and doesn't mean anything useful for anyone when things like that are said. On top of that, the FCC outlines another purpose of amateur radio as experimentation. That fact alone is why some amateurs participate in the hobby. If they enjoy the hobby that way or not, is unfortunately not up to you alone to decide. On both grounds, the comment you made was an attempt to null meaning from a video like this where everyone else found it useful. Perhaps that begs some self reflection on your part. Here's the fun bit, here you attack me in three different ways. Each attack is so disconnected from normal healthy social communication that most people wouldn't interpret them that way. But in your mind, your disdain for young people is so strong, there mere fact of someone labeling themselves as such without shame is enough to send you over the edge. "I don't really give a shit for pretentious youngsters" Not much needs to be said here. The underlining issues you have with me, and the video really comes down to a strange, hatred for young people. The hatred you feel is enough to make a grown man (such as yourself) be reduced down to name calling on the internet. Now I know this isn't my problem to deal with. But this certainly begs some therapy or introspection to find out why "youngsters" and "pretentious" fit together so well for you. This isn't healthy or natural social behavior, and you need to seek guidance. I will call it out here, but in other places, you probably just make people unconformable in silence. "that label themselves 'millennials'" Despite how much you hate the generation, this isn't really any sort of critique in the eyes of most people. It's another indirect attack based on the fact I am a young person. Which in itself is only a problem for you, and maybe some others that have yet to truly understand why they feel this way. I am a millennial. If me saying that makes you angry, than you must realize you have an internal issue. "and seek to reinvent the wheel." This honestly seems like more word salad. But then gain, it's hard to tell if there is anything meaningful in what you said behind the anger and blatant ageism. What wheel am I seeking to reinvent here, and why has it made you upset? I don't think anymore needs to be said here. You can reply, but I'm sure whatever you could possibly say will be just as meaningless as the first thing. If anything at least you served as a good example.

I'd like to thin they were just pages around from a time when webpage development just wasn't up to speed yet. But for webpages developed that look like that in the past 10 years, I wonder why on earth the webmaster didn't just use a template of some type.

It's kind of ironic. I guess either way you go, there's going to be some wall of text. It's a lot easier to digest when it's organized, still relevant, and presented in a nice segmented package.

@@ModernHam do you know of an easy to use software for RTTY? i keep searching but all the programs i find have very bad UI.