For people who don't want the 'hassle' of installing some perl modules via CPAN there are 2 possibilities:
* Run pskmail and fldigi from the pskmail_puppy live CD. It boots in 45 seconds the second time if you save some files on your C drive after first use. This will give you fldigi 2.09 and pskmail client version 0.6. * This also works from a 256MB bootable USB drive. As it runs totally in RAM it is lightning fast. * Run pskmail inside windows. This is as easy as unzipping a zip file in your C drive and installing 1 driver (KQEMU). Also a 1-click affair. You need at least 256 MB Ram for this. If you tell it to do so it will automatically saveyour config data and mail afterwards (also to a separate USB stick). Uses VESA only. 1024x768 is works fine in XP. It is impossible for me to port it to window$, as the program uses a lot of Linux native tools. The APRS part (yes, pskmail is a full-fledged HF APRS messenger) has been done for windows by UT1HZM. The arq part is more difficult... In EU I can use 4 servers at the moment from where I am. IS0GRB-3, PI4TUE, DL9YCS, SM0RWO. Depending on time of day. Most beacons are qsl'ed by 2 servers all the time. Using 20 Watts from my RV on a campsite in Spain. Last email session on 19:30 local with DL9YCS on 30 meters PSK250 with zero repeats. Several servers are operated in the US and 1 in Australia. Best set up a server yourself for initial testing... http://pskmail.wikispaces.com http://www.freelists.org/archives/pskmail/ http://www.pskmail.de 73, Rein EA/PA0R/P > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > Gesendet: 02.03.08 19:24:46 > An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > Betreff: [digitalradio] Some success with PSKmail > > > > > I recently revisited PSKmail as I had previously downloaded fldigi and > was thinking that I had that program working. I did the necessary unzip > and untar, although I could not get the regular GUI program to do it. It > indicated no directory to put it in and so I just used the terminal > program. I am using Kubutu, but tried to follow the detailed downloads > required for Ubuntu and ran into lots of problems with it not finding or > being able to do things with the rather large numbers of files, but kept > trying various ways from other Linux variants and somehow managed to get > everything installed. > > As an aside, Linux developers have to figure out how to make this all a > part of the program or the OS or whatever. It is amazingly difficult and > convoluted to do all this "stuff" just to get one program to work. > Windows is so incredibly superior to this downside of Linux that it will > be (or is already) a non starter for most computer users. You can call > people dumb and all that, as some of the Linux zealots do on a rather > regular basis, but this is a huge stumbling block. And very retro in > today's advanced operating systems. Like my wife says, "I just want it > to work." > > I was able to eventually figure out how to get everything to work and > attempted connecting with several of the listed e-mail stations and did > connect to the 5 station once I got on the correct QRG. That was > impressive. I did not have anything connected up yet to an e-mail > program so that will require more configuration but I thought I might > just try and send just anything from the keyboard. > > Ooops, I crashed X Windows. Then I recalled that some time back, this > was an on-going problem with my computer:( Does anyone else have this > problem with fldigi? It has something to do with entering any data in > the transmit window and X just goes into an immediate reboot. Or > perhaps a later version has this fixed? > > Are any stations using PSKmail here in the U.S.? Can you tell us of your > experiences? > > After using NBEMS at bit, am I right that the error correction ARQ is > the same or very close to the way that PSKmail does this? If so, why > can't this be ported over to MS OS? This would give us an additional > tool for emergencies as well as some practical e-mail capability that is > very narrow mode. > > 73, > > Rick, KV9U > > > -- http://pa0r.blogspirit.com Announce your digital presence via our Interactive Sked Page at http://www.obriensweb.com/sked Check our other Yahoo Groups.... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlist/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contesting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
