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 !!