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Some TNCs had a feature whereby you could leave messages for their owners. Bulletin board software began to develop partly out of this, allowing one-to-one message exchange and posting on forums, real-time chat, distributing news and data, and whatever the operators of the BBS want to offer. The scene may be quieter, but it isn’t dead. [http://g7vja.co.uk/novbbs.htm Ten or so packet BBSs] still exist in the UK. | Some TNCs had a feature whereby you could leave messages for their owners. Bulletin board software began to develop partly out of this, allowing one-to-one message exchange and posting on forums, real-time chat, distributing news and data, and whatever the operators of the BBS want to offer. The scene may be quieter, but it isn’t dead. [http://g7vja.co.uk/novbbs.htm Ten or so packet BBSs] still exist in the UK. | ||
Several of us on the [[Amateur Radio]] IRC channel expressed an interest in setting up and managing a BBS, perhaps even on a local packet network. We’ve been talking about what other fun features beyond message passing we could implement, like Richard Osgood's [http://www.richardosgood.com/blog/how-to-setup-a-raspberry-pi-packet-radio-node-with-zork/ BBS that allows users to play Zork]. We might be able to reach quite a lot of people from a central London location. However, we’d need somewhere with decent coverage and we’d also need a full license to run an unattended node. Furthermore, to repeat or rebroadcast other peoples’ messages we’d need a Notice of Variation. | Several of us on the [[Amateur Radio]] IRC channel expressed an interest in setting up and managing a BBS, perhaps even on a local packet network. We’ve been talking about what other fun features beyond message passing we could implement, like Richard Osgood's [http://www.richardosgood.com/blog/how-to-setup-a-raspberry-pi-packet-radio-node-with-zork/ BBS that allows users to play Zork]. We might be able to reach quite a lot of people from a central London location. However, we’d need somewhere with decent coverage and we’d also need a full license to run an unattended node. Furthermore, to repeat or rebroadcast other peoples’ messages we’d need a Notice of Variation for ''each node'' that is on and unattended. | ||
== Who has shown interest? == | == Who has shown interest? == | ||
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* [http://www.theskywaves.net/ The Skywaves], including some stuff on [http://wiki.ampr.org/ AMPRnet]. | * [http://www.theskywaves.net/ The Skywaves], including some stuff on [http://wiki.ampr.org/ AMPRnet]. | ||
* Baldrick introduced us to [http://tarpn.net/t/packet_radio_networking.html TARPN], a project to encourage builders to build the largest amateur radio packet network that they can. The TARPN is based on G8BPQ nodes running on a Raspberry Pi computer with outboard TNCs or TNC emulators. | * Baldrick introduced us to [http://tarpn.net/t/packet_radio_networking.html TARPN], a project to encourage builders to build the largest amateur radio packet network that they can. The TARPN is based on G8BPQ nodes running on a Raspberry Pi computer with outboard TNCs or TNC emulators. | ||
* [http://www.gb7esx.co.uk/ G1NNA]'s stuff and [http://www.cantab.net/users/john.wiseman/Documents/ G8BPQ]'s stuff. | |||
[[Category:Amateur Radio]] | [[Category:Amateur Radio]] | ||
[[Category:Projects]] | [[Category:Projects]] | ||
