VIA HAM RADIO How do Hams do that? This series of slides was used to guide the all day Florida Amateur Digital Communications (FADCA) Technical Conference held in Sanford, FL on April 30, 2005.

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FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION TECHNICAL CONFERENCE APRIL 30, 2005 FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION “Decisions are made by those who show up." -- Aaron Sorkin FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION HOW WE HANDLE AMENITIES FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org Rest rooms – out either door and go in either direction ‘down the hall’ Coffee, water, doughnuts – Out the back door of the building to the canteen. Your $5 lunch fee almost covered this – Thanks to Keith Kotch KF4BXT for the doughnuts! If you spill anything be sure it is on your computer.

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org REFILLS DURING THE WORKSHOP- Do not leave your computer unattended when going for refills or taking a break during the workshop. Leave your partner there to continue loading software or ask one of the experts to go get your coffee! If you spill anything be sure it is on your computer.

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION HOW WE HANDLE AMENITIES FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org Lunch – out the back door of the building and go to the canteen wagon. Pay $5 and get your hand stamped. Take one lunch portion - sandwich, drink, chips. Eat on picnic tables outside, in the break room (down the hall out this front classroom door), or back here in the classroom. If you spill anything be sure it is on your computer.

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION HOW WE HANDLE AMENITIES FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org Lunch – (continued) Once everyone has had a lunch, you may return to the canteen w/o extra charge. (Don’t wash the stamp off your hand!) Please leave this classroom clean before we continue the Technical Conference after lunch.

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION HANDS ON WORKSHOP – LOADING SOFTWARE FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org TERMINAL NODE CONTROLLER (TNC) Connect a TNC to a comport on the computer with the RS- 232 cable. Do you know which comport this is? Do you know the serial baud rate for which the TNC is set? These things are important. Learn them and make note. OS – Win 98 or newer.

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION HANDS ON WORKSHOP – LOADING SOFTWARE FADCA Technical Conference April 30, MS.NETframework 1.1 Required for Paclink AGW and Paclink Post Office If not on your machine load now. Do NOT go to internet and load beta version 2 OS – Win 2000 or newer.

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION HANDS ON WORKSHOP – LOADING SOFTWARE FADCA Technical Conference April 30, WinPack – A Terminal Program that does it all. Use WinPack for general keyboard uses Testing TNCs, links, and paths Real time keyboarding (QSOs, BBS, ) File transfers including with TelPac Nodes OS – Win 98 or newer.

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION HANDS ON WORKSHOP – LOADING SOFTWARE FADCA Technical Conference April 30, TINYPAC – TNC DIAGNOSTIC PROGRAM (AUTHOR Charlie Crook N3PPC) Determine com/serial port where TNC is connected Determine baud rate of TNC serial port Determine state of TNC (cmd:, KISS, HOST) Set state and baud rate of TNC. OS – Win 98 or newer. Use TINYPAC version for your OS!

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION HANDS ON WORKSHOP – LOADING SOFTWARE FADCA Technical Conference April 30, AGW PACKET ENGINE – Use AGW PE to - allow access to a TNC/Radio port by more than one application. access more than one TNC/Radio port by any application. make automatic transfers with Paclink AGW. OS – Win 2000, WinXP.AGW PE ‘FREE’

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION HANDS ON WORKSHOP – LOADING SOFTWARE FADCA Technical Conference April 30, PACLINK POST OFFICE – SERVER Establishes - the ham radio call sign / account for this computer. non-ham tactical accounts to be processed by this computer. OS – Win 2000, WinXP. Should be on internet when loaded.

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION HANDS ON WORKSHOP – LOADING SOFTWARE FADCA Technical Conference April 30, PACLINK AGW – TRANSFER PROGRAM Automatically transfers outgoing mime files from user accounts to TNC/Radio port to TelPac node. incoming mime files from Telpac Node to user accounts on this computer. OS – Win 2000, WinXP.

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION HANDS ON WORKSHOP – LOADING SOFTWARE FADCA Technical Conference April 30, OUTLOOK EXPRESS – CLIENT Once Paclink AGW is working - all messaging is done using your standard client. All other programs are transparent and run in the background. Create an account for your Paclink Post Office account in Outlook Express. OS – Win98 or newer.

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION HANDS ON WORKSHOP – LOADING SOFTWARE FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org TELPAC NODE – BRIDGE TO INTERNET Generally tactical computers will not be running Telpac Nodes while in the field as a Telpac Node must have an internet connection to make this bridge to internet . Loading this program on your computer today will be a learning exercise so you can do it on another computer when needed. OS – Win98 or newer. Pre-registration of Telpac Node required

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION HANDS ON WORKSHOP – LOADING SOFTWARE FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org TELPAC NODE – BRIDGE TO INTERNET When a packet station links to a Telpac Node - Telpac links the packet station to a distant PMBO. exchanges are made between the packet station and the PMBO. Telpac computer must have an internet connection to make this bridge to internet . OS – Win 98 or newer. Pre-registration of Telpac Node required

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION HANDS ON WORKSHOP – LOADING SOFTWARE FADCA Technical Conference April 30, TELPAC NODE When you load this program for real you must first register it at You will also need to know: Lat/Long of the Telpac Node Call letters of at least one distant WL2K PMBO that runs a Telnet Server. OS – Win98 or newer. Pre-registration of Telpac Node required

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION HANDS ON WORKSHOP – LOADING SOFTWARE FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org AIRMAIL – PRIMARY PROGRAM FOR ACCESS ON HF Also may be used on packet to automatically link to a Telpac node for transfers. AIRMAIL is not yet AGW-PE compliant. Will run on Win98 or newer OS. OS – Win 98 or newer. Limited list of TNCs for packet

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION COMPLETE INSTALLATION DOCUMENTATION ON ALL PROGRAMS IS ON THE INTERNET FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org RTFM! Read The Manual!

INTERNET REFLECTORS FOR SPECIFIC HELP Paclink AGW and EMCOMMs – AIRMIAL – / / Use FADCA reflector for Florida-specifics – FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION

AGWPE (free version) AGW Monitor AGW Terminal Digipeater [ Airmail 3.2 Airmail 3.2 (floppies) Airmail TNC's (text) [ FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION Programs on the FADCA Tech Conference CD Microsoft.Net Framework 1.1 [ PaclinkAGW Paclink Post Office [ Telpac Telpac [

TinyPacME_Kan TinyPacXP_Kan Winpack 6.80 Winpack 6.80 (floppies) Winpwait [ WinZip 90 FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION Programs on the FADCA Tech Conference CD

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION “Decisions are made by those who show up." -- Aaron Sorkin FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION Now go forth and multiply. FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org

THE FLORIDA LAYERED PACKET NETWORK AND HOW TO NAVIGATE IT. Local Area Networks (LANS) – The Building Blocks of the Network; switch components; how a switch functions; network addressing; connect Scripts; Telpac links, packet Bulletin Boards, Telpac Nodes. MODERATOR: WB4MOZ, N0IA FADCA Technical Conference April 30, FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION

CURRENT STATUS OF THE FLORIDA LAYERED PACKET NETWORK. Which LANs are active; status of interconnecting backbones; current fixes and upgrades in process, where additional LANs are needed, backbones needed to bring the new LANs into the network. MODERATORS WB4MOZ, WB4KGY – assisted by FADCA District Directors and anyone else who knows current device status FADCA Technical Conference April 30, FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION

1130 – FADCA FREQUENCY COORDINATION DATABASE AND FADCA WEB PAGES Status, updating, new database program, suggestions for upgrading/ changing presentations. New database manager needed. MODERATORS N4KOX, W1NPR FADCA Technical Conference April 30, FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION

LUNCH BREAK! Hotdogs, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, sausage/ onions, chips, drinks. Out the back door of the building to the caterers’ wagon. Eat outside, in break room down the hall, or back in this room. Caterers – John Rothert KC4IYO and XYL Judy. FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION

Tour of Seminole County EOC and ARES Radio Shack. When you finish lunch join a small group tour led by a local ARES member. Start here and take elevator to 3 rd floor. Technical Conference continues at 1300 – don’t miss the several working Paclink AGW stations and a combo voice / digital repeater. FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION

– PORTABLE PACKET STATION DEMONSTRATION Several stations set up around the room. Talk with the owners - get/give some ideas. Also a combo voice and digital repeater. FADCA Technical Conference April 30, FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION

1330 – OVER HAM RADIO IN SUPPORT OF EMCOMMS IN FLORIDA. What is required to provide this modern method of supporting served agencies during communications emergencies. MODERATOR N0IA - group discussion. FADCA Technical Conference April 30, FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION

– NETWORK DRIVE TESTING Giving a definitive answer to the question "can you hear me now?" – Chuck KP4DJT will demonstrate his company’s software that maps network coverage. Chuck hopes to be able to map the Florida Layered Packet Network Coverage. MODERATOR KP4DJT. FADCA Technical Conference April 30, FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION

– LINUX FPAC – What LINUX has to offer, how to get there. LINUX box on display, and more. MODERATORS KP4DJT, K4GBB, N3PPC, (a.k.a. ‘The Three Charlies’) FADCA Technical Conference April 30, FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION

– HIGH SPEED DATA - BACKBONES 9.6KB UHF, 38.4KB 900MHZ. Basic problems, types of data controllers, radios, antennas, combine 9.6kb user access using shared voice repeater, and more. MODERATORS KA0OXH, KP4DJT, N4KOX. FADCA Technical Conference April 30, FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION

– PC/FlexNet – A SMART AX-25 NETWORKING SYSTEM MODERATOR K2BJG (Palm Bay) – FlexNet is widely used in the northeast US and Europe. FADCA Technical Conference April 30, FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION

HF MODES FOR SUPPORTING OVER HAM RADIO and WL2K 2000 SYSTEM Q&A. Pactor, Packet, SCAMP. MODERATOR N0IA and anyone else who is knowledgable. FADCA Technical Conference April 30, FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION

CURTAIN CALL - THANKS TO FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org MEETING ROOMSEMINOLE COUNTY DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY DICK FESS K4FUY EC AND HIS STAFFCOORDINATION CHARLIE CROOK N3PPCWORKSHOP CD ROMS AND TINY PACK JUDY AND JOHN ROTHERT KC4IYOLUNCH CANTEEN DOUGHNUTSKEITH KOTCH KF4BXT AND TO YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST AND TIME

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION “Decisions are made by those who show up." -- Aaron Sorkin FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION Now go forth and multiply. FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org

FLORIDA AMATEUR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION TECHNICAL CONFERENCE APRIL 30, 2005 FADCA Technical Conference April 30, 2005www.fadca.org