Re: APRS for Linux?

1999-04-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 02:19:19PM -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote: > Since Bill Gates is so rich now it appears his worries were not > founded, or, they didn't matter. I suspect it doesn't matter because > people like Netscape give away their product and still make good money. Actually, Netsca

Re: AX25

1999-04-21 Thread Anonymous
Your rpm will install the package in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ Go to /SPECS and do a 'rpm -bp packagename-n.nn.spec' This will install the source files in /BUILD JOSE NG LEE wrote: > > I installed the ax25-utils rpm package but cannot find it on > the /usr/src directory. > > Can you tell me in wh

Re: Fiel Day and QRP

1999-04-21 Thread Tom Amenta
I have operated QRP and decided it was "hopeless". I have worked with clubs that operate QRP and they are able to score healthy scores but you have to work very hard to make a contact. I must admit it is loads of fun but you may have to work very hard for 2 -4 contacts per hour. I think, particu

Re: Proposal to abandon the HAM-HOWTO in its current form.

1999-04-21 Thread Terry Dawson
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 10:08:47AM -0400, Bloom, Jon, KE3Z wrote: > The next step, it seems to me, is to put together an outline of the book. > Trying to determine a page count is pointless until you know what material > you're going to cover. Jon, Let's see what the outline of the HOWTO that w

Re: Proposal to abandon the HAM-HOWTO in its current form.

1999-04-21 Thread Terry Dawson
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 06:30:19PM +0100, Riley Williams wrote: >Section 3: An index to software available for the ham to help > with his or her hobby, grouped by category, and an > index to the same software listed alphabetically by > name, both stat

Re: ampr_extractor and bind-8 cache files

1999-04-21 Thread Simon J Mudd
It's nice to know someone uses the things I write :-) "Robin Gilks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. I'd like to extract the UK parts of the ampr.org domain using > ampr_extractor from Simon Mudd (or similar) but the cache file > that bind-8 produces is a real mix!! None of the CNAMEs or MX > re

RE: Proposal to abandon the HAM-HOWTO in its current form.

1999-04-21 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Jon. >> What really worries me is that a decent book of 100-200 pages on >> using Linux for ham radio would tend to be too short, and a >> proper treatment would take at least six months to write -- by >> which time it would be largely out of date. > First, please understand that I don't

Re: sattrack

1999-04-21 Thread Bruce O. Benson
This sound like JPass? http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JPass/JPass.asp BB. On 20 Apr 1999, Jonathan NAYLOR wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, try amsat.org for the 2 line element sets. Looks like your > > interesested in the Kansas City Tracker and are trying sattelite packet. > > Sorry Karl, wr

RE: Proposal to abandon the HAM-HOWTO in its current form.

1999-04-21 Thread Bloom, Jon, KE3Z
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Terry Dawson wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: > TD> I'd be interested to know if the ARRL would be interested in > TD> publishing something of this nature? > > It seems a good project for the ARRL. One option might be to serialize it in > QST over a period of time,

RE: Proposal to abandon the HAM-HOWTO in its current form.

1999-04-21 Thread Bloom, Jon, KE3Z
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > There have been attempts to do this sort of thing before, most notably Bruce > Perens' "Linux for Hams" project. I thought that was going to be a Linux distribution, not a book? > What really worries me is that a decent book > of 100-200 pages on using Linux for ha

Re: Fiel Day and QRP

1999-04-21 Thread Charles Greene
At 08:01 PM 4/20/99 -0400, Ed Lawson wrote: >Having never operated QRP during FD, I am curious if the >QRP freq. are honored at all as a band segment for QRP stations. >Do QRP OPs did to stay in the area? >Or do we have to slug it out with all the 100 W stations? >I would also assume that 40, 20