Hi, Frank
I'll give you a try on 20 meters this weekend.
There is plenty of room for another PSKmail server in region 4 on 30
meters. I take my station down as a PSKmail server when I am sailing
and would sure like to be able to reach a pskmail server from the
Chesapeake Bay as a client.
I took a week long sailing trip two weeks ago and tried to connect from
about 100 miles off shore in the Atlantic, from both ends of the
Chesapeake and from the Delaware Bay but I couldn't see a PSKmail
station. I did have a QSO with a person in Vancover BC on psk 31 but I
expect my shipboard antenna is not as good as it needs to be. I was
using a PAR Electronics end-feed dipole raised on a spare halyard and
attached near the portside shrouds. I expect the mast and shrouds are
distorting my TX field. I plan to keep working on getting everything
working. I was hoping that my beacon might have reached EU but it looks
like I didn't make it. I only had about 20 watts going out.
73 Alan KD4QCL
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 20:58 -0400, Frank F. wrote:
This is Frank, K4AVL, am testing the server version on Ubuntu Hardy,
currently have had the server up for over 24 hours at 14078. I'm located
in Asheville NC
I chose 20 meters as I have done most of my PSK work there, and when I
used the client on 30 meters I was not able to easily connect with any
one, perhaps just once and it aborted, and there are 3-4 people from the
4th call district already covering that.
I've just about read everything on the site 3-4 times and still it's a
bit new to me.
Could someone try my server and see if it can do mail, internet, etc.?
Looking at the log, it seems I have a continuous connection the the
Netherlands APRS server (via internet), and that's why I'm showing up on
the "users list". I send a beacon every 20 minutes, where can I look to
see if that is posted anywhere? I started the server the second time
without the &
and to see what the stdout messages show as well. Besides what's in the
log, I've seen things like "Gating PA0R, Dropping PA0R from record" ,
also a lot of "no aprs message in file".
Are clients automatically able to add their email info to the server
they connect to once connected?
Also, I'm ignoring any references to gmsk, the autofile and log files
are both 0 bytes. In rflinkusers I added myself using user_db.pl
I edited pskmailrc.pl to the best of my ability before restarting the
server, and am using my outgoing google mail SMTP server, for the time
being until I can check if my ISP has SMTP_AUTH.
That leads to my last question, if I use pskmail as a client, when
sending an email, will is act as if I am on my home network, or do I
need to use SMTP_AUTH?
Thanks in advance, and please test my server. I'm considering possibly
keeping it online, but now its on my main rig, I have another but will
have to built a PTT circuit for it if I were to use that (I do have a
couple spare antennas, lol) . I'm planning to make a presentation a our
next club meeting, and hope to get a few other interested, and perhaps
then we may have more servers if I can explain it well enough.
73, Frank
