Tom's packet radio scratchpad
This is Tom's scratchpad and hopefully evolve into:
- How to build a standalone packet node
- What you can do with it
- How you can get it talking to other packet systems
- Interlinking with high-bandwidth private IP networks like hamwan
and on the other side:
- How to build a packet access station
- What you can do with it
- How to use it
URLs
United Kingdom BBS Regions and Counties showing National Area Code
adapted from https://www.theskywaves.net/fbb/AX25_BBS_UK_FORWARDING_REGIONS.pdf
| Region | Forwarding area | County | Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 RSGB Reg A - N England | #11 | Cheshire | CHS |
| #12 | Cleveland | CVE | |
| #13 | Co. Durham | DHM | |
| #14 | Cumbria | CBA | |
| #15 | Humberside | HBS | |
| #16 | Greater Manchester | MCH | |
| #16 | Isle of Man | IOM | |
| #16 | Merseyside | MSY | |
| #16 | Lancashire | LNH | |
| #17 | Northumberland | NLD | |
| #18 | Tyne and Wear | TWR | |
| #19 | North Yorkshire | YSN | |
| #19 | South Yorkshire | YSS | |
| #19 | West Yorkshire | YSW | |
| #2 RSGB Reg B - Midlands | #21 | Bedfordshire | BFD |
| #22 | Cambridgeshire | CBE | |
| #23 | Nottinghamshire | NOT | |
| #24 | Hereford and Worcester | HWR | |
| #25 | Leicestershire | LEC | |
| #26 | Lincolnshire | LCN | |
| #27 | Northamptonshire | NHM | |
| #28 | Shropshire | SPE | |
| #28 | Staffordshire | SFD | |
| #29 | Warwickshire | WKS | |
| #29 | West Midlands | WMD | |
| #3 RSGB Reg C - South East | #31 | Essex | ESX |
| #32 | Greater London | LDN | |
| #33 | Hertfordshire | HFD | |
| #34 | Kent | KNT | |
| #35 | Norfolk | NOR | |
| #36 | Suffolk | SFK | |
| #37 | Surrey | SRY | |
| #38 | East Sussex | SXE | |
| #38 | West Sussex | SXW | |
| #4 RSGB Reg D - South West | #41 | Avon | AVN |
| #42 | Berkshire | BRK | |
| #43 | Buckinghamshire | BUX | |
| #44 | Devon | DVN | |
| #44 | Cornwall | CNL | |
| #45 | Dorset | DOR | |
| #45 | Somerset | SOM | |
| #46 | Gloucestershire | GLR | |
| #47 | Alderney | ALD | |
| #47 | Jersey | JER | |
| #47 | Guernsey | GUR | |
| #47 | Sark | SRK | |
| #48 | Hampshire | HPH | |
| #48 | Isle of Wight | IOW | |
| #49 | Wiltshire | WLT | |
| #49 | Oxfordshire | OFE | |
| #5 RSGB Reg E - Wales | #51 | Clwyd | CLD |
| #52 | Dyfed | DFD | |
| #53 | Mid Glamorgan | GNM | |
| #53 | South Glamorgan | GNS | |
| #53 | West Glamorgan | GNW | |
| #54 | Gwent | GWT | |
| #55 | Gwynedd | GDD | |
| #56 | Powys | PWS | |
| #6 RSGB Reg F - Northern Ireland | #61 | County Antrim | ATM |
| #62 | County Armagh | ARM | |
| #63 | County Down | DWN | |
| #64 | County Fermanagh | FMH | |
| #65 | County Londonderry | LDR | |
| #66 | County Tyrone | TYR | |
| #7 RSGB Reg G - Scotland | #71 | Borders | BDS |
| #72 | Central | CTR | |
| #73 | Dumfries and Galloway | DGL | |
| #74 | Fife | FFE | |
| #75 | Grampian | GRN | |
| #76 | Western Isles | WIL | |
| #76 | Orkney | ORK | |
| #76 | Highland | HLD | |
| #76 | Shetland | SLD | |
| #77 | Lothian | LTH | |
| #78 | Strathclyde | SCD | |
| #79 | Tayside | TYS |
Example:
GB7CIP.#32.GBR.EURO (is a BBS located within the London Forwarding area. As gb7cip was a satellite server to a London BBS before taking over full service many Years ago.)
2m / 70cm nodes
Excluding HF and APRS
| Region | Callsign | Sysop | Freq | Locator | Location | Notes | Web |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE | GB7KUX | G0KUX | 144.9375 | IO91WP | Southgate | ||
| SE | MB7NCR | G4APL | 144.9375 | IO91WH | Caterham on the Hill | https://www.theskywaves.net/ | |
| SE | MB7NRD | M0LTE | 144.95 | IO91LK | Reading | ||
| SE | MB7NAF | M1MIT | 144.95 | JO02NN | Wymondham | NOT OPERATIONAL | https://www.mx0wvv.org/ |
| SE | MB7PGD | M0NGY | 439.9875 | IO91QE | Godalming | NOT OPERATIONAL | |
| N | MB7PNE | M0NXN | 439.9875 | IO94EX | Gateshead | NOT OPERATIONAL | |
| MID | GB7UOD | G7UOD | 144.95, 432.675 | IO92PA | Milton Keynes | ||
| SW | MB7NBA | G0AOZ | 50.65, 144.95, 430.2, 432.675 | IO91FR | Bampton | 430.2 n/o | |
| SCOT | MB7NCB | GM7LUN | IO85 | ||||
| SCOT | MB7NHW | GM7LUN | IO85 | ||||
| SCOT | MB7NLS | GM7LUN | IO85 | ||||
| SCOT | MB7NSB | GM7LUN | IO85 | ||||
| SCOT | MB7NSK | GM7LUN | IO85 | ||||
| SCOT | MB7NDU | GM7LUN | IO85 |
Equipment
Tait TM8200
Client software
- Outpost - Personal mailbox client
- QtTermTCP - from BPQ, can as of recently now be used with a dumb KISS modem as a “traditional” connected-mode TNC
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/uichat/ - CLI and gui ax.25 chat client again with KISS modem support
- UISS - non-connected mode packet client