Portable Offgrid Packet Station - A BBS in 2021?
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2021
- In this video, I’ll show you how I built an inexpensive, light-weight, portable, feature rich packet station for offgrid comms. We’ll also take a look at a three decade old technology and see if we can use a bulletin board system (BBS) as an offgrid collaboration platform. If you’re over 40 this may be the video for you. Good old packet radio!
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3. Mobilinkd TNC cable - Same as the link above. Simply get the correct cable for your radio.
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Excellent video as usual! Few realize how delicate the infrastructure really is, Most people I talk to just hold up their cellphone and proudly exclaim "this is all I need". Also people who put down the Baefongs have forgotten what it is like to be young, married, and not much disposable income on such a "foolish" item as starting in ham radio. I have a comment for them but it is rather vulgar so I will not post it here. PLEASE keep your videos coming! I have learned something from each one and have been a ham for a LONG time! Thank you.
I loved connecting to BBS's back in the pre-internet days with my Radio Shack Color Computer 2 (later the 3) on a 300 baud modem. A local kid ran a BBS and I logged into it every day. This setup definitely looks like something I want to try sometime. I've been getting back into ham radio after quite a few years being inactive. I'm a computer geek to so this looks like a fun project to work on.
Your content is *always awesome. Whether 'prepper' or not, many hams out there have an interest in this stuff but aren't sure how to get it going because, as you say, it's 30yr old tech and a lot of people have moved on. You're a great 'Elmer' for this!
Very interesting and great work! Definitely would be valuable to have deployable comms & message boards like this for many situations.
Great content Gaston! Since your last video, a buddy and me were able to connect to a Winlink station via a digipeater on 2m. There are also a couple BBS systems in range for me. Looking forward to you doing keyboard to keyboard comms with others. Miss the good old days of packet radio!!!
It's nice to see BBS over radio. It all makes so much sense. Thank you for sharing the content, brother. I'll be sharing your channel and the info I glean with the folks that I've been guiding towards rf coms. People are starting to understand that we have options that aren't just cellphones and texting. When you tell a normal person this tech exists, it blows their mind. When you let them know that it's been around for decades, it makes them want to use it even more. 🤙🏽
This is awesome, thanks!
I find value in all your videos , thank you so much .
Great video as always, man! I look forward to putting together my own field-ready packet station at some point in the near future and the information in this video, specifically regarding how to connect to the BBS, will be very helpful.
KM6TAU I enjoyed your video. Your just as good as those other guys! Keep going!
Thank you, Gaston. This is very interesting. Digital is my weak point, but I've recently picked up a couple of Pi Zero 2 W units, which appear to be similar in power to the Pi 3 (but of course much smaller). I have a lot of learning to do, however channels like yours are a big help as well as a big inspiration. Thanks from a happy ('though digitally confused) subscriber! 73
Great video - we need more of these types of videos from everyone. In fact I was planning on doing a similar video for the IC-9700!
I just found your channel and enjoyed this very much! I had a packet station around the early 2000's for Army MARS. I want to revisit that and I like your portable station. 73
I ran a BPQ BBS many years ago. I used HT while on a local exercise being able to send Winlink via BPQ. I used Kenwood V 71. I also used UIVIEW to run Robust Packet and chatted with various hams on 30 M. Also interesting is using VHF to chat with a Ham around the world and they use HF via Chat on the BPQ BBS.
Another great video.
Eye to eye, station to station!
"Thank you" can express my gratitude enough. Another great video and content. I love your approach to using any and all radios without prejudice. I think your mindset wrapped around comms in any condition, with any equipment is the best approach for all; weather your at the bottom of the spectrum of equipment or the best on the market. From my experience, I think equipment prejudice is the biggest downfall to the hobby, leaving a lot of potentially great HAM radio operators in the dark. Its sad, but its reality. Keep pumping out this content, its inspired me to get into the hobby deeper, setup my own comms and share it and upgrade my license to the next level.
Thanks for another great video! Would like to see what else can be done with this configuration.
Amazing, fuck yeah bro. You really are thee man. This is something right out of Fallout. I just found your channel and I’m already crazy about it
Years ago, I cracked open a UV-5R extended battery pack and replaced the cells with smaller cells from a standard UV-5R battery pack. This left the extended portion of the battery case as an empty cavity. I stuffed that empty cavity with an Argent Data Systems T3-mini, a Ublox gps module and an HC-05 bluetooth module. I cut the cord off of the headset that came with one of my radios and soldered it to the T3-mini and ran it out of the battery shell through the hole where charging port was. I installed a small sliding switch in the side of the case to turn the extra electronics on and off. Battery life was less than fantastic, but it was a pretty slick little package. I took it to a club meeting and said "Check this out. Notice anything different about this battery?" Someone said "oh it's just an extended battery, we've seen those before." He was quite surprised when I explained what I had done.