[Sderby] Radio licences

[Ted]

Simon Hales wrote:

>Hi
>
>If you have a Linux box and a radio license you can attach a packet
>radio modem to your serial port and have fun on the packet radio
>network.  I was given a packet radio modem a while back, but have never
>got round to playing with it.
>
>Would definitely be interested in a radio license, will listen on the
>list for more details.
>
>As far as I know, packet radio is a slow (i.e. old fashioned 2400 or
>9600 baud serial port speed) wide area network, like a primitive
>Internet.  Although each packet radio modem has only a limited range,
>many places (such as Derby University I think) run packet radio
>repeaters, so you can get access to a very big network with a lot
>of users all over the UK.  There are even packet radio gateways to the
>Internet, so you do things like reading your sderby list mail on a
>packet radio link.
>
>Regards
>
>Simon Hales
>
>
>
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>  
>
A modem is not really needed providing you have a soundcard
and then ax25 utils will fill the bill...

-- 
Regards
  Ted Wager
    Using Libranet Linux