RCARES packet LAN configuration
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Racine County ARES packet freq, and utilized LAN configuration config
Anyone utilizing these frequencies should use this as a guideline to avoid confusion, and co-ordinate with AEC digital
EBBS KB9MMA
Example HOME BBS ADDRESS CALLSIGN @KB9MMA.#SEWI.WI.USA.NOAM
Commands for registration on BBS
N FIRST NAME
NH KB9MMA ( OR HOME BBS)
NZ YOUR ZIP CODE
Frequencies utilized normal and disaster responses
PRIMARY Racine LAN 145.530 MHz / 1200 BAUD
SECONDARY ARES NODE 145.610 MHz / 1200 Baud
High speed user freq 446.100 MHz / 9600 Baud
(old backbone freq now defunct)
Alternate QSY Frequency Primary 145.01 WOULD REPLACE 145.530 IN CASE FREQ IS UNUSABLE
KEYBOARD TO KEYBOARD 145.030 MHz ( This is OK on 145.530 )
Documented and agreed to July 2005 by the RCARES digital group.
Anyone is welcome to operate on the frequency, utilize them, but please review guidelines to help the frequency not to become unusable. Also please co-ordinate with KB9MMA just to make sure no conflicts will arise ahead of time.
Conventional BBS to BBS forwarding is to be kept to a minimum, please. This does not include Winlink 2k communications, because this is not automated forwarding. automated forwarding chews up air time too much.
SSID plan
- CALLSIGN -0 BBS
- CALLSIGN -1 PBBS (optional)
- CALLSIGN -2 NODE primary
- CALLSIGN -3
- CALLSIGN -4 APRS DIGI
- CALLSIGN -5 RESERVED FOR PMBO / TELPAC THIRD CHOICE SSID, can be used as keyboard terminal.
- CALLSIGN -6
- CALLSIGN -7 ALTERNATIVE TELPAC SECONDARY SSID
- CALLSIGN -8
- CALLSIGN -9 ALTERNATIVE NODE SOMETIMES USED FOR DIGIPEATER
- CALLSIGN -10 PRIMARY TELPAC SSID
- CALLSIGN -11 CHAT / TACTICAL
- CALLSIGN -12 PRIMARY KEYBOARD SSID
- CALLSIGN -13 RESERVED
- CALLSIGN -14
Applications
Outpost / Winlink 2000 / Terminals / Airmail / Paclink/ ETC.
External links
Required TNC settings to get operational on the network
KEEP UPDATES ON THIS SHEET. SETTINGS MAY CHANGE !
- AX25L2V2 = ON
- AXHANG = 0
- BEACON = DEFAULT 0 (OPTIONAL 120 If you are a node / digipeater )
- BTEXT = See beacon standards for nodes / telpacs if you are one.
- CTEXT = WELCOME TO (CALLSIGN)'S EMCOMM STATION.
- CW = off always
- DAYTIME = outpost sets up automatically
- DIGIPEAT = off default (turn on if told to.) it is unnecessary to digipeat beacons through a node digipeater.
- DWAIT = 15
- FRACK = 5
- INTFACE = CHANGES TNC MODE
- KISS ON = PUTS TNC , KANTRONICS SEE INTFACE COMMAND for use with AGW or other Kiss programs
- MONITOR off (on only if troubleshooting)
- MALL = MONITOR ALL ( HELPFUL IN TROUBLESHOOTING) OFF BY DEFAULT
- MAXFRAME =5 allows up to 1k download at a time
- MAXUSERS = usually 1 increase if multiple users
- MBEACON = Recommended for PBBS off but can be on operators discretion.
- MCON = off (on only if troubleshooting)
- MCOM = OFF (ON ONLY if troubleshooting)
- MHEARD =lists heard stations... ( use this instead of beacon)
- mrpt = off
- MYCALL = required ONLY use YOUR CALL!
- MYALIAS =wi+LAST THREE OF YOUR CALL Suffix
- MYNODE = call-2 if told to turn on..
- MYPBBS = call-1 if need to (no entry by default)
- MYREMOTE = never datafill
- PACLEN = 230
- PASS leave alone unless problems (some TNC lock up on char $2C for example)
- PASSALL off (do not accept invalid packets) ensures 100% copy.
- PBBS = default 0 off (on if mypbbs call-1 enabled)
- PBFORWRD = default off Not used usually
- PBHEADER =N/A IF PBFORWRD OFF
- PBHOLD =N/A IF PBFORWRD OFF
- PBKILLFW =N/A IF PBFORWRD OFF
- PBREVERS =N/A IF PBFORWRD OFF
- PERSIST = 200 (we are using persist/ slottime method)
- Perm = some TNC this writes settings to EEPROM
- RESPTIME =5
- RESET = LIKE POWER CYCLE OF TNC BE CAREFUL, !!!SOME TNC THIS RESETS MEMORY!!!
- RESTART = LIKE POWER CYCLE OF TNC
- SLOTTIME = 15
- TRIES =5
- TXDELAY 30 (45 IF OLDER TXMITTER)
- TXFLOW IF NOT USING RTS/CTS TURN ON... SOME TNC NEED.
- TXTAIL 0 PREFERRED SOME REQUIRE LOW VALUE OF 2-4 in AGW
- Flow control = hardware, some TNC if have Software flow control, might not work.
Normally if TNC is built in don't use it, Tasco modems especially!
