The radio operations center roc is a comprehensive suite of fullfeatured software solutions for commercial radio, amateur ham radio, mars and marine radio control. Here comes the new packet radio by french ham f4hdk. Some software will provide a terminal with which to control terminal capable tncs to allow a user to interact with other packet users. Packet radio terminal written in borland pascal a ham radio terminal program for packet radio ax. For 1,2002,400 bits uhfvhf packet radio, amateurs use commonly available. To get on packet, you will need, of course, a radio. Debian software packages in jessie, subsection hamradio. If you are illegally using this for offroading or hang gliding or balloon tracking, we cannot help you. Its using a terminal or program, a special modem, and radio to connect with another packet user or a packet bulletin board system pbbs. Radio amateurs best asset, rig and rotor control, logging, digital modes, and satellite. When this 2meter radio failed, it was replaced with an identical ericcson 70cm ht operating on 437. What software would i use on win7 64bit to do 2m packet. I am developing a software dualport packet radio tnc that uses a soundcard as a modem and supports ax. Dit kan een 27 mhz bakkie zijn, maar ook een 2m of 70cm tranceiver.
In simple terms, the terminal program converts text from the computer keyboard and sends it to the tnc for transmission as tones by the radio. If you have a pc or compatible computer but do not have a packet terminal program, click here to download the 20046 version 2. It is a special windows utility for amateur radio packet users that interfaces multiple packet programs and multiple tncs terminal node controllers modems. The terminal node controller tnc automatically divides the message into.
What is a good inexpensive mobile 2m70cm radio with a data. Npr70 v05 modem by f4hdk new packet radio over 70cm. It also has no serial flow control, so it is quite easy to overrun the buffers. A computer, even an old xt running msdos will work just fine and a tnc terminal node controller.
The first thing to try is lowering maxframe from 4 to 2. Feb 11, 2020 if you are a ham, you should be able to talk to local hams and get info. Most of the frequencies marked all modes or dm digital mode may be used for packet radio, although there does not seem to be a single designated packet calling frequency. Rtty and other digital mode terminal for hfamateur radio.
Its been made by sigi kluger who worked on it for several years. Steps for using soundmodem uz7ho as a packet modem at our. Im pretty handy with hf digital modes, ive got an digital interface and a radio do to packet on 2m. Usually decoding packet requires some sort of external hardware called a tnc terminal node controller. New packet radio amateur radio emergency data network.
The world of free packet radio software in amsterdam ziggo. Soundmodem is compatible with all programs that work with the agw packet engine agwpe. What frequencies should i listen to for packet radio. A packet radio station consists of a 2 meter radio, a terminal node controller tnc, basically a modem for your radio, a computer running some type of communications software be it written for packet or as simple as a old telephone modem program like telex, and connecting cables. A software program to facilitate the transfer of data back and forth between the computer and the tnc a terminal program. Back in the 80s and 90s, packet radio linked amateur radio stations together. The winpack terminal program is a nice windows program that is easy to set up and use and a big improvement over hyperterminal and the older dos based programs such as pacterm. This protocol allows to transport up to 500kbps ip trafic over 70cm amateur radio links, in a pointtomultipoint topology. The tnc is like a modem that encodes and decodes packets of data using what. I would like to share my last project with the aredn community. The soundmodem has two tcpip interfaces to link with client application. Now that computers are more powerful, its often simpler to use a software modem. On hf, it tends to be 300bps, while some uhf links run at 9600 or even faster. Npr70 v05 modem by f4hdk new packet radio over 70cm band.
Ham radio deluxe software radio amateurs best asset. It can also be used with other software for aprs, bbs, satellite packet, and regular packet work. This software is created for the sole purpose of creating an easy packet radio experience. The key to using it for packet is to keep the packet size down 128 bytes and the number of max frames low 2. Normally a packet radio frequency is coordinated between operators in the area, since one frequency can be shared by several tncs. It has been tested on windows xp, vista, 7, 8, 10 and has proved stable in operation. Kantronics radio modems convert radios hfvhfuhf into digital communications devices. Windows for the end user is the easiest for installing the tcpip over ax. Packet radio can run on any platform including ancient operating systems from 20 and 25 years ago.
Computer a laptop or desktop unit with terminal software. A bulletin board is like a crude website that can provide limited or specific information as well as a message server similar to gmail, hotmail, and yahoo mail, like we all use today. However, there is a sound card decoder called agw packet engine. Npr new packet radio is an hardware and software project by guillaume f4hdk recently published on hackaday. Packet radio lives on through open source software. Id like to do the same with the mobilinkd if possible. Business use is strictly prohibited without written consent from the webmaster. Aprs bulletin board systems bbs conversation mode digipeater winlink. Despite the name, the npr is not related to amateur radio packet network, and no ax. With the d72 it had a full tnc that i could just use with any terminal software, but since the mobilinkd is kiss only i think a lot of the heavy lifting has to be done on the software side in the pc. The following is a list of other vhf, and uhf packet radio simplex frequencies that are a part of the.
So lets take a peek back at packet radio through this ten part series from the denver radio packet class so can get a close up look at packet radio in action. On vhf or uhf, the average packet station can communicate directly with stations within 1040. Rxclus rxclus is a free amateur radio software especially designed for the dxers and swls wanting to receive the informations transmitted by packet radio. Jun 10, 2018 linpac is an attempt to create a packet radio terminal that could be easily extended and reconfigured to meet the needs of anybody. Packet radio is a digital radio communications mode used to send packets of data. Pkterm 99 host mode terminal software for the timewaveaea tncs takes advantage of the true multitasking capabilities of windows 95,98,nt. Software for packet radio use category is a curation of 32 web resources on, packetcluster dx statistics, winafsk, linpac packet radio terminal. Uhfvhf packet, commonly available narrow band fm voice radios are used. Fsk is rtty encoded by the transmitter or a terminal node controller tnc. You could run your entire packet radio station on 12 volts. In the early days, packet radio relied on a special piece of hardware called a terminal node controller tnc.
With an off the shelf dmr amplifier, you can get 20w rf power or more. It has all the features one needs with a packet program. Develop a reliable terminal core with reduced set of functions and define an unified application interface that would allow adding new functions by creating the applications. Packet radio basics introduction to packet radio operation with emphasis on parameters and connecting with other stations, nodes, clusters, digis or bbs. All images, software, files and downloads of this website are only intended for personal use. Kb1oiq andys ham radio linux version 23 has been released. The frequency for these stations and their associated digital repeaters digipeaters is 145. Packet goldmine software by the hundreds from hams net. To access a bbs, you connect to it using a terminal program. The world of free packet radio software in amsterdam 50megs. Taking another look at packet radio page 29 qrz forums. Until recently, packet radio activity from the iss on the 145.
You can use a physical packet modem terminal node controller tnc, but at 1200, 9600 and even 19,200 windows dsp digital signal processing emulating a modem is superior. The thing is im confused by all the ancient software and instructions on the net. Lanlink is a personal digital communications terminal program for the tnc2, kpc2, pk88 and, most of all, a smart multimode digital communications controller for the kam, mfj1278, and pk900 and. Jun 09, 2019 npr new packet radio is an hardware and software project by guillaume f4hdk recently published on hackaday. Packet radio is an open standard, supported by multiple vendors.
There are lots of terminal programs available for use with packet radio. Agwpe is widely accepted in the amateur radio packet software community and is a tool that provides a standard interface between packet radio software and associated hardware. This amateur radio web site explains how to use the agwpe utility program to send and receive packet using the sound card of your pc instead of a tnc. Rms express software uses either soundmodem in combination with the signalink as a tnc terminal node controller to connect to a packet rms gateway, or the winmor local examples are ab4nx10, wb4qdx10, ka4kkf10 etc. Dos software sp is the best dos based packet software i know of. Tired of the low data rate on the oldstyled tradditional packet radio. Ham radio deluxe is the worlds most popular ham radio software. With free and open source software, a linux pc with a. Current packet technology and software packet has changed dramatically over the last 35 years or more. Can anyone suggest what software id use to use packet radio with. Id like to find easy2use software for windows, mac, linux, and potentially even on mobile androidiphone. Most packet happens on 2m, but some happens on uhf and even down to 40m as well.
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