I’m not aware of anyone having written an application like that, but it wouldn’t be too difficult to write.

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73,

John

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Good Morning,
Not even sure how to begin with a thought I have on my current BPQ32 implementation. I am new to BPQ and picked up the torch for our area, an older Ham was running our RMS gateway on 2m packet and had an equipment failure (was running BPQ), he is wanting to slow down on some items so I took up the RMS gateway (Had to rebuild from scratch) and have added BPQChat, BBS Relay for RMS, I am about to implement VARA HF (Have the configs done/tested), and I have one last item (Below) I want to sort if possible. Being an ARES member and the only station in our area with a 24/7 Battery/Solar station it made sense for me to pick it up the gateway as an EmComm resource... I hope its never needed as such, but its ready, tested, and available. My Qth also makes it prime along with the station towers (crank downs to get it out of the weather when it hits and quickly back up) and location since it is reachable by almost all the surrounding areas.

The last item I want to attempt is an additional application on the node, but I do NOT want to put this within the BBS information, most connections are not going to bother digging into the BBS. The Application (and SSID associated to it) would simply dump a text file to the connected station. In the case of a connection to the SSID directly (e.g., N3BYR-3), it would connect, dump the text file to the station, and disconnect. In the case of application selection from the primary node (in this case N3BYR-7), if the user selected by typing the option "NodeDoc" like they would with CHAT or BBS or CMS, it would run that application line to drop the text, and return to node (STAY) if the S option was used.

The drive behind the idea of having a Text file that BPQ can essentially dump to a connecting station, is having a quick way to pull a few items I plan to list on the text file. These would include important ARES stations to reach, any upcoming nets or exercises on recurring basis, associated frequency lists for the area, and a weather report/condition (I'd write my own code to pull WX data and add into the text doc at intervals). I think having this would be good for quick glance information, and more "Up Front available" to the local area packet stations instead of digging into the BBS looking for a bulletin or message.

Is there already a method in BPQ to do this, or has someone else done this? Most the other settings in BPQ are easy to google and configure, not even sure where to start with querying google or the BPQ site to approach this... thanks ahead of time!

Greg - N3BYR