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Welcome to the latest edition of the National Packet Update, where we strive to collate updates on our endeavors to increase packet radio usage and expand its coverage in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and beyond. | Welcome to the latest edition of the National Packet Update, where we strive to collate updates on our endeavors to increase packet radio usage and expand its coverage in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and beyond. | ||
- | I think its fair to say that packet has taken off and is seeing some exponential growth with almost 50 NoV'd packet nodes online. | + | I think its fair to say that packet has well and truly taken off and is seeing some exponential growth, with almost 50 NoV'd packet nodes online. |
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+ | Going forward I'd request that people submit their updates via this [[https:// | ||
===== Progress ===== | ===== Progress ===== | ||
- | In the North East of England, Robin M0JQQ has applied for an NoV for M0JQQ GB7CNR near Cramlington, | + | ==== Packet Network ==== |
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+ | The network continues to grow with lots of new nodes and links going up this month. | ||
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+ | In Scotland Andy GM7GDE has put up MB7UAH near East Kilbride | ||
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+ | In the North East of England, Robin M0JQQ is now operating | ||
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+ | In the North West, Neil M0NFI has put MB7NFI into service near Prescot, Merseyside. Neil's also running some custom apps on the node, which are well worth checking out. | ||
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+ | In the Midlands, Dave G1ZEK has put up GB7NWL near Castle Donnington and Jon G7RUP GB7LCN in Lincoln. Andy M1NER has also put up MB7NER near Peterborough. | ||
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+ | In London, Szymon M0GZP has been granted GB7WEM for his Node in Sudbury, and has reliable RF connectivity into GB7CIP in Caterham - one of, if not the oldest packet node still operating and the gateway into the international packet network. GB7WEM also has a good link to GB7NHA in Harpenden, which in turn can reach Milton Keynes and beyond. | ||
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+ | In the west of England, M0ZEN has put up MB7NCD near Coleford in Gloucestershire | ||
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+ | Last but not least, GB7IOW has had a flurry of activity with some 50 users connecting to the BBS from Holland, Russia, Germany | ||
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+ | ==== Software ==== | ||
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+ | The software world has also been incredibly busy this month. Paula has released Xrouter v502x, available on the [[https:// | ||
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+ | Hibby MM0RFN has also been putting in some hard work to build packages and host packet related software so it's as simple as `apt-get install`. For a list of instructions and available packages see this [[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Hardware ==== | ||
- | In London, Syzmon M0GZP has been granted GB7WEM for his Node in Sudbury, | + | Jonathan G4KLX and Nino KK4HEJ have been working to add new C4FSK based modes to the MMDVM and NinoTNC respectively, |
- | 2m: GBLCN, GB7NWL, GB7ODZ, GB7OUK, MB7NCD, MB7NER, MB7UWV | + | You may recall that last month Nino also added some experimental |
- | 70cm: GB7OUK, MB7UAH | + | |
- | The software world has also been incredibly busy. Paula has released Xrouter v502x, available on the [[https:// | ||
===== How to get involved ===== | ===== How to get involved ===== |
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