Re: HELP: soundmodem & keying rig
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:31:04AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> I am just amazed that you could pull this off with a 486!
Never underestimate old hardware. :-) The machine is an old Packard-Bell
486DX/66 w/32 MB, which was a gift from the Free Hardware Fairy (tm).
I squeezed Debian (Potato) into 91 MB of a 120 MB hard drive. I wasn't
trying very hard to save space either. :-) When I finally got the soundmodem
running and checked the load average, it was around .21. Darn machine is
hardly breaking a sweat. Looks like there will be enough spare CPU to play.
A friend and I have another 486/133 w/24 MB running as a router/mail/web
server (theshed.dhs.org) for his home LAN. Originally, we were using a
486/25 w/24 MB. Still would be if the hardware hadn't died (killing our
175 day uptime.) Naturally, we run Debian.
> Now, do u plan to just aprs or is it going to be a full packet bbs or
> node???
The original plan was to set up a remote node (solar powered) to gather
and send back weather data. Data collection will be done using the Basic
Weather Stamp. At first, I hadn't thought about making it a pbbs or APRS.
I like the idea of APRS though. Very likely, it will find it's way into
the project. :-)
> Would *really* like to see a recap post on results of this.
I'll be glad to. My next task is to figure out how to set the machine up
as Net-ROM node so I can connected to the AMPRnet gateway.
73... bob, kc2wz
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