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

Sally7 personal mailbox client
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