Welcome to Station:   KA1FSB

This Ham Radio website is dedicated to the promotion of Digital Amateur Radio. Its main focus is packet related topics. The purpose is to offer information that may be useful in setting up and operating packet radio stations, particularly on Linux "platforms."

Of special interest may be the articles on homebrew projects for both hardware and software. It is hoped that they will encourage you to build your favorite project, or write that "next generation killer-app" code. Scope out the project, plan your time, and enjoy the homebrew aspects of packet radio!

Packet radio makes a great hobby, but can find special application in times of emergencies or disasters. Consider what you can do to assist others by maintaining an emergency packet radio station.

Please note that this site is a "work in progress" and may not supply all the information that you might need... However, extra care has been taken to fully document all software and hardware projects using analytical commentary, configuration file excerpts, shell scripts, schematics, tables, and photographic illustrations where applicable.

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• Featured Articles
  • Building a Thru-modem Using the TCM3105
    
  • Driver Configurations for the Thru-modem
    
  • A Runtime Configuration File for the Thru-modem
    
  • The Single Turn Magnetic Loop Antenna
    
  • Setting up a Convers Server
    
  • Configuring a Soundmodem for AX25 or JNOS
    
  • The Packet TraceBot-Monitor: *NOS->Convers
    
  • The Status of Packet Radio
    
  • Using Packet Radio in Emergencies
  
  
• Technical Configurations & HOW-TO's
  • Setting up a Packet Radio Station
    
  • All About Digipeating
    
  • Running JNOS on Linux
    • How-To Compile or Re-compile JNOS    
  • Running the AX25 Utilities
    
  
  
• Linux-Related Topics
  • Working with the Shell
    
  • Maintaining System Files
    
  • Compiling a Soundmodem Module: soundmodem.o
    
  
  
• Homebrew Projects
  • A "Case" for Homebrewing
    
  • My First TCM3105 Thru-Modem
    
  • The VHF Adjustable Quad Antenna
    
  • Building a J-Pole VHF Antenna
    
  
  
• Networks, Networking, and Mail
  • The AMPRNet Connection
    
  • Running TCP/IP in JNOS
    
  • NET105: An HF Network for the 20 Meter Band
    
  • NOS-ABS: An Automatic Beacon System for *NOS
    
  • Using PINE with Packet Radio
    
  • Popping the JNOS Mail Server
    
  • The Alias File in JNOS
    
  • Telnetting into a BBS    
    
  
  
• Emergency and Disaster-Related Services
  • Emergency Communications and Information Resources
  
  
• Internet Services
  • Internet Connections Page for Station KA1FSB
    
  • The Local Mail Server: Status and Information    
    
  
  
• Interactive: Games, Calculators... (JavaScript)
  • Interactive Calculator for Loop Antenna Designs    
    
  • Take a Quiz for Fun! Communications Topics
    
  • Match Game Quiz: Identify Packet Images
    

If you have any suggestions, questions, or comments about the content of this site, e-mail me and I will be happy to reply as soon as I can. If you have any pertinent information about any of the topics, feel free to send it along. And thanks to all of you who have taken the time to write; good to hear from you!    — Thanks for stopping by... 73 - KA1FSB/Karl