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    From Indrid Cold@9:91/24 to All on Fri Nov 4 11:10:00 2016
    Hello, how are you guys - hoping well.
    Yesterday I've managed with a friend of mine to finally setup an AirChat station, using a laptop with Debian + rtxt Baofeng UV+5R+ and some custom cable, by my end. The other guy was using the same Baofeng model +
    subnotebook Aspire with Windows, and same type of cables.

    Here's the link to the project, interesting for communicating in case of calamities, disasters and other emergencies like government drop, Internet shutdown, etc. - ex. Syria dissidents, quakes...

    https://github.com/lulzlabs/AirChat

    It uses PERL, and some other dependencies, but nothing of impossible to configure, for each platform - as backend, it uses the famous FLDIGI and obviously own soundcard in/out cabled to rxtx.

    We managed to send messages, with the possibility to encrypt, inserting own callsign, administer potential Twitter accounts and useful TOR network - give it a try, it's a cheap way to experiment with packet radio.

    Now I'm trying to setup one of my Raspberry-like boards to stable AirChat station, to form with other friends a sort of mesh radio network between us.


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  • From Skuz@9:91/1 to Indrid Cold on Sun Nov 6 21:46:30 2016
    On 11/04/16, Indrid Cold said the following...

    https://github.com/lulzlabs/AirChat
    We managed to send messages, with the possibility to encrypt, inserting own callsign, administer potential Twitter accounts and useful TOR
    network - give it a try, it's a cheap way to experiment with packet
    radio.

    This is very interesting, thanks for sharing the info with us! Checking it
    out now...

    Now I'm trying to setup one of my Raspberry-like boards to stable AirChat station, to form with other friends a sort of mesh radio network between us.

    Please keep survival net in the loop for any more updates on your project. We all love to hear about new ways to make FREE communication possible.

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  • From Indrid Cold@9:91/24 to Skuz on Mon Nov 7 18:15:00 2016
    This is very interesting, thanks for sharing the info with us! Checking
    it out now...

    I've continued to work on it, I've got some update - thanks for your
    interest, we share the same interests I see.

    Please keep survival net in the loop for any more updates on your
    project. We all love to hear about new ways to make FREE communication possible.

    OK, I've setup AirChat on my notebook with success... regarding configuration and setup on Raspberry... it seems successful, but I've used a more powerful Orange PI mod. PC with Ubuntu Vivid distro - as audio IN-OUT I had a spare
    and nice SoundBlaster LIVE 24 DAC USB external to use, and a friend of mine built the correct cables to connect to the rxtx - it works, and another nice thing is that you can browse the local URL of the AirChat service from the smartphone or another PC, and send messages over air from there - obviously, you've to configure AirChat service autostart or exec it manually after the boot. My side, I've not had particular problems, and with more supported classic-raspberry platform, it can be only easier. As said before, the only important missing thing is a full audio IN-OUT ports presence in these little boards, but we can use also cheap USB audio dongles, with the custom cables.


     I N D R I D / C O L D 
    First come smiles / Then come lies / Last is gunfire 

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Raspberry Pi)
    * Origin: Miskatonic BBS | telnet://rasppi.servebbs.org (9:91/24)
  • From vk3jed@9:91/26 to Indrid Cold on Sat Jan 7 03:31:00 2017
    Indrid Cold wrote to All <=-

    Hello, how are you guys - hoping well.
    Yesterday I've managed with a friend of mine to finally setup an
    AirChat station, using a laptop with Debian + rtxt Baofeng UV+5R+ and
    some custom cable, by my end. The other guy was using the same Baofeng model + subnotebook Aspire with Windows, and same type of cables.

    Interesting project. I had no idea this existed. Just logging into another BBS that carries SurvNet, and catching up on posts, as I am not carrying this net on my systems yet. Will be checking it out further.


    ... Is this some conspiracy to make me look paranoid?
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  • From Orbitman@9:91/8 to Indrid Cold on Fri Jul 7 08:26:19 2017
    Now that's cool! I'll have to look up AirChat. I'm familiar with FLDigi as I've used it for my digital setup with my homemade interface to my Yaesu FT-900. A radio-mesh network...nice :)

    Thanks!
    Orbitman (Allen)
    telnet://orbitbbs.ddns.net:7210
    Opp, Alabama, USA

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