Wednesday, November 12, 2014

This Weekend I Tried Out the BBS via HF

So, Thursday Night Tony (KA5TRO) and myself (KD5NJR) tried out Jeff's BBS via the new HF port. WOW ! IT WORKED !!

It was very similar (and easy) to logging in via VHF using UZ7HO Soundmodem and the terminal emulator that ships with that software.

    Wednesday night I did some prep work.
  • Upgraded to the most recent version of FLDIGI ( downloaded from the FLDIGI webpage )
  • Made a few test contacts with PSK-31 on 20m ( 14.070 MHz )to verify my mic and speaker settings were unchanged.
  • Downloaded and installed BPQ (as Jeff mentioned in his earlier post)

    Thursday night we
  • Made a few test contacts with PSK-31 on 20m ( 14.070 MHz )to verify my mic and speaker settings were unchanged.
  • Downloaded and installed BPQ (as Jeff mentioned in his earlier post)
  • Overwrote the configuration file for BPQ (as Jeff mentioned in his earlier post)
  • Made a few changes to FLDIGI (as Jeff mentioned in his earlier post)

    When you bring up BPQ32 (It will bring up FLDIGI as well)
  • open a terminal screen
  • give the command : attach 5
  • give the command : modem bpsk250
  • give the command : c ae5me-15

And you should hear the handshaking between you and Jeff's BPQ software.
    To check mail
  • give the command : BBS
  • give the command : OP 20 //this will keep test transmissions of a reasonable length
  • give the command L or LM //one of these is LIST, on is LIST MINE
  • if you see something worth reading, RM //read mine.
  • if you see something worth reading, R num //num is the message number.
  • ? gives pretty good help.
  • Try it out and have fun !!

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