LHS Episode #064: Winlink and AX.25
Welcome to Episode #062 of Linux in the Ham Shack. Today Richard has decided he's going to talk a bit (OK, a lot) about Winlink, AX.25 and packet radio under Linux. In the meantime, I get to discuss some useful Linux utilities like modprobe, wget and the SysV init script system. So get comfortable in your easy chair, put on your headphones and relax for a deep dive into packet radio with Linux. Captain Nemo has nothing on us.
Introduction:
- Apologies for being late with this episode.
Announcements:
LHS had planned on attending the Ohio LinuxFest on September 9-11 in Columbus,OH, and the Huntsville, AL hamfest Aug 21-22, but it’s just too expensive. To address that, LHS has started the LHS Ambassadors program where listeners of the show act as representatives for LHS at events. If you’re interested, please contact us at ambassadors@lhspodcast.info
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Linux Format magazine, the producers of the Tux Radar podcast, recently reviewed various Linux-related podcasts, and LHS wasn’t even mentioned! Ouch!
Richard announces the demise of Resonant Frequency: The Amateur Radio Podcast. Richard is looking for a place to post the articles and other content. The podcast episodes are saved at the Internet Archive, and the videos will remain on YouTube.
Topics:
WinLink and AX.25
Richard describes his trials and tribulations getting a WinLink packet gateway working under Ubuntu Linux.
For the most part, Richard followed the instructions provided by Charles, K4GBB: How to install RMS Gate.
Richard and Russ describe the steps in the Howto and possible pitfalls. Richard notes that you’ll probably want to run the commands as the root user, either by logging in as root or using sudo.
(Note, near the end of Section 4 of the Howto, it appears the author left out the “wget” in the command to retrieve the script. On the page it reads: Get Script – Bernard has written a little Housekeeping script… https://f6bvp.free.fr/logiciels/ax25/rc.init.script && …
I think that command should be: wget https://f6bvp.free.fr/logiciels/ax25/rc.init.script && …
Note that I’ve shortened the lines with ellipses here. -Ed.)
Other useful links:
Feedback:
Andy, KB1OIQ, tells us of his Ham Radio Linux CD, based on Ubuntu Linux 10.10, and includes many ham radio programs.
Rich, KD0BJT, of the LowSWR podcast, is working on a ham radio-related Linux distribution, too.
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Thanks to Dave from Gamma Leonis for the theme music.
Music:
“Mendes” by Assembly Line Gods from the album “Control: Volume 1.”
“Pound of Flesh” by Assembly Line Gods from the album “Control: Volume 1.”
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