Re: packet radio

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert]

 > From: "Testlab N.A. Inc. (Engineering)" <http://www.testman.com/~testlabeng>
 > Date: Tue  Jul 13,  3:31pm
 >
 > The neatest thing is APRS which uses a GPS unit connected to your packet
 > radio which then transmits your exact position to the WWW.APRS.NET internet
 > service so that anyone can tell exactly where you are.
 > I still have a packet setup running at 1200 baud.

There's a 9600-baud packet radio->internet gateway running at MIT.  I
think it said it had a 2-mile radius, though.

Look at
http://anxiety-closet.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu/activity/w/w1mx/www/gw-w1mx.html

 > I haven't connected to
 > the Linux/Unix packet systems yet that use KISS.  the Bennet's have my
 > other packet unit but have no idea how to set it up.  If you're interested
 > in pursuing packet, let me know and I'll let you know what I know.
 > Igot ping to ping the Linux box (testman) but when I ping the Windows
 > computer, it goes crazy printing out ASCII characters on the Linux screen
 > and then hangs and RESET is the only way I can restart the Linux computer.

Try

# ldd `which ping`

to make sure it's using the correct libraries.  Also make sure

# which ping

ends up with the one in /bin.

 > At 06:42 PM 07/13/1999 +0000, you wrote:
 > >Have you thought of doing packet radio again?  Did you know that people
 > >are working on high-speed packet radio (56Kbps)?