Need to reset frequency on radio after forwarding
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I manually pickup messages from an area DTN hub using BPQMail and would like to go back to a set frequency after forwarding so they can find me when sending traffic to me. I saw a reference to the parameter DefaultRXFrequency xx.xxx but no reference if this still works or where to put it the port config file. Can someone help me reset my radio after forwarding to a set frequency? Thanks Dave - KD7UM
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Field range values
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When setting up the timing for mail forwarding/ reverse, what is the max value that can be entered into the fields for these settings (seconds). BTW minutes seem to me as a better value rather than seconds. the reason I ask is I want to poll for DTN traffic only 2 to 4 times a day, but those values are large when expressed as seconds. TIA jim
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Qttermtcp teletext control codes
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Hello Could someone point me to the right display control codes for triggering and displaying in the teletext window. The closest thing I can find so far are the prestel control codes and I have only been able to produce colored text with those. Thanks in advance Joey
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howto send from winlink express to BPQmail using telnet on a local host
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I am trying to work out a way to send from winlink express to bpqmail thru telnet on the localhost I need to generate outgoing messages to a group and winlink express seems to handle this the best from what I can see SO with that being said instead I saw on winlink express under telnet session - settings there is a way to use the local machine as a RMS Relay. So I am assuming that I need to set CMS=1 on the BPQ32.cfg port definition but beyond that I am lost and dont see where to establish the rms relay to listen on 8772 I could also be all wet and not understanding the pipe any guidance is welcome Rob
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how to post a bulletin to the BBS and have it be rewritten to a list
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I was curious if there is a way that I can have a message posted to the BBS and have it rewritten so I can send out a defined list of rms express users individually. I was looking thru the system and havent come across a rewrite window i will continue to look The system is currently a closed system and not out on the public network so I am not too concerned for outside users flooding my user community Thanks in advance
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Need Advice: RF Only Forwarding
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Need Advice: I'm setting up 2 RF only BPQ nodes that are not within RF range of each other. (Please see diagram below.) However, they each can access a node on a mountain between them. The node is a Kantronics V9.1. In Scenario 1, forwarding would be done during sleep hours to avoid tying up the user channel. In Scenario 2, the data link would be 24/7. Kantronics has a KNet, KA-Node, and a simple Digipeater? Which type of node do you think would play well with BPQ for forwarding? What would the forwarding scripts look like between both stations via the node in each scenario? I'm curious to hear member comments on the pros and cons for each scenario. Thank you! 73 de Chris WW2BSA
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Mail odd behavior
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This morning I accessed BPQ Mail from a terminal window on the bpq host machine. Windows 10. BPQ32 6.0.24.64 and BPQMail 6.0.24.62 (these were distributed together.) Anything that I enter (LM, L, name, homebbs, anything) returns nothing to the terminal. I can see that it connects to the BBS on the mail app, and the queue value goes to what looks to be accurate. But nothing on the screen. Accessing WebMail in a browser works normal. Accessing the BBS from a browser terminal acts normal. Accessing the BBS from another machin using telnet works normally. The logs show exactly what the terminal does. No output to the terminal when accessed with a terminal window on the local machine. I looked for all occurrances of my base call sign in my config. I do have a couple and commented them out. Restarted and the same happens. Forwarding is happening normally. Recieving mail is happening normally. Anyone else have this happen to them? I probably have not accessed the BBS like this for months so have no clue when it started. So many changes to the config file since I accessed the mail from a termina... Just not sure if this is isolated to my fat finguring the config file somewhere or if others have seen this. Quite frankly, I don't even know where to start looking. -- 73, Mark, N5MDT Montgomery, Texas http://n5mdt.ham-radio-op.net:52852
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BPQ Kiss AX25 Bridge Testing
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I have been experimenting with the bridge functionality on a linbpq system. The test bridge system has only 1 telnet port (so I can use QTT for testing) and 2 RF ports defined. The 2 RF ports (10m and 70cm) are bridged and for testing purposes are configured for 1200b with a maxframe of 3 and a paclen of 128. The bridge functionality is working but with one odd behavior. Both RF ports use QTSM 1200b ax25 no fx and no il2p. I can connect on either the 10m port or the 70cm port to the bridge system directly as a node and issue a command that will generate a bunch of output like the status command and both ports behave as I would expect. By that I mean I can monitor the ax25 packets and see the bridge system send 3 frames (MAXFRAME=3) and the connected system respond as it should with a single ACK. The bridge node sends the next 3 frames which is again ACK'd by the connected system with a single frame and so on until there is no remaining data to send. The bridge is active the entire time but in this test is not providing anything useful since I connected to the bridge system directly as a node specifically to verify that AX25 packet timing was acceptable on both RF ports given PERSIST and SLOTTIME settings. Both RF ports behaved well and I did not witness a single retry. If I instead connect .eg. from a system on 10m "through the bridge" to a linbpq node on the 70cm side of the bridge the ax25 traffic is nicely bridged in both directions but now there is the odd to me behavior observed. With small bits of data that do not require more than a single frame the bridge works very well. If however there is a large block of data like the output from a BPQ status command and both RF ports are trying to do the MAXFRAME=3 thing the timing goes bonkers and there are lots of retries that slow down the transfers significantly. Short of forcing MAXFRAME=1 on the bridge ports is there anything I can do so that the bridge function does not muck so much with the packet timing? 73 de Rich WA3WLH
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LINBPQ Fails to start with message: Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit)
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I am configuring linbpq on a Pi Zero W, when it was installed the default config BPQ was running so I started to configure it. After the reboot in didn't have BPQ available and I am seeing the following error: $ systemctl status linbpq.service ¡ñ linbpq.service Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/linbpq.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit) since Tue 2025-03-04 12:35:30 AST; 3h 20min ago Process: 621 ExecStart=/bin/bash /home/pi/linbpq/runbpq (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 621 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CPU: 115ms Mar 04 12:35:30 M1DOG systemd[1]: linbpq.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5. Mar 04 12:35:30 M1DOG systemd[1]: Stopped linbpq.service. Mar 04 12:35:30 M1DOG systemd[1]: linbpq.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Mar 04 12:35:30 M1DOG systemd[1]: linbpq.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'. Mar 04 12:35:30 M1DOG systemd[1]: Failed to start linbpq.service. I was using linbpq 6.0.24.65 upgrade it to 6.0.24.66 but the same result. Any help would be appriciated. Heber NP4JN
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Need Advice: MAP through an Internet T-Mobile, Verizon, etc. "can"
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I'm experimenting with one of my BPQ32 nodes. I need advice on how to MAP through a T-Mobile Arcadyan KVD21 Gateway. For only $35/mo it's a great way to provide internet service at almost any location - especially remote node sites. https://www.t-mobile.com/support/home-internet/arcadyan-gateway 1st experiment: MAP from my existing -7 node at the Arts Center to my -5 node at my house. I¡¯ve been able to identify the IP address for the can and have had some success using the following format. (x's being the IP addresses) on -5: MAP WW2BSA-7 xxxxxxxxxxxx TCP-Master at the Arts Center: MAP WW2BSA-5 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx TCP-Slave But before I go into a lengthy post with more details, I wanted to first see how other Sysops have configured their MAP statements with a T-mobile, Verizon, etc. internet ¡°can¡± if they use one. 73 de Chris ww2bsa
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WL2KREPORT not working
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Whereabouts in the file is it? It needs to go in a port config. If that's not the problem send me your config and I'll have a look. 73, John
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Can I send a tune command from within a RADIO Block
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Just curious can I send a RADIO TUNE command when switching static frequencies based on time I know I can do it during a forward script but dont see a way to handle it when switching frequencies based on time Below a a sample of the port an radio block PORT PORTNUM=2 ID=HF VARA DRIVER=VARA INTERLOCK=1 PORTCALL=NNA1AH CONFIG ADDR 127.0.0.1 8300 PTT CI-V PATH C:\VARA\VARA.exe ENDPORT RADIO 1 COM4 19200 ICOM 7300 94 00:00 5,CHAN70,Z 15:00 5,CHAN71,Z 23:00 5,CHAN70,Z **** TIA Robert Cartier kd1jg@...
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DNS Name Connection Issue
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My Pi4 running my LinBPQ node was going bad so I replaced it with a new Pi4 and a fresh copy of Pilinbpq. After finally transferring the mail, users & wp data the node came back on line. However, two new issues. AXIP MAP station take a long time to reconnect after a reboot they do finally connect. I have a 2nd AXIP port that handles my AREDN tcp connections it connects right away.. I had the same setup on the original pi as well. Can not access the BPQ web server or telnet from outside of my network using ddns.net. This has to be some sort of permissions problem, if I start the original pi4 w/BPQ it connects fine. I have opened all the same ports on my network for the new pi. If you ping the ddns.net it resolves just fine. Apologies for any grammar or spelling errors! -- 73 de Glenn Allison N3MEL (tprfn) The Packet Radio Forwarding Network EPA Hub Station www.tprfn.net Emergency Coordinator Chester County ARES/RACES www.w3eoc.org Sent with Spark
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need sample of Radio port using Channel command
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Hi I see in the docs that the use of CHANXX is valid and I have successfully used it in rigcontrol but what would like to move to RADIO X IN the docs the example RADIO 1 COM6 9600 ICOM IC718 5E 4,3.5855,USB,F1,P23,W2 4,7.1,USB,F1,P23,W2 6,7.0815,USB,F1,P12,W1,R2 6,10.1455,USB,F1,P23,W2,R2 14:00 4,7.1,USB,F1,P23,W2 6,7.0815,USB,F1,P12,W1,R2 6,10.1455,USB,F1,P23,W2,R2 4,10.1405,USB,F1,P23,W2 **** But I looked and found no examples of using CHANXX and trying RADIO 1 COM4 19200 ICOM 7300 94 00:00 5,CHAN70 15:00 5,CHAN71 **** Doesnt yield the results I was hoping for.. basically nothing TIA Robert Cartier kd1jg@...
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CLAWS mail, POPing mail, multiple clients and unread mail
Hi, How do others deal with the "Unread mail" generated by housekeeping in these scenarios? Since I am using CLAWS mail, having the system report mail is unread in X days is not really accurate tho housekeeping is convinced so. As so POP does not have an ability to mark mail read, only delete. However that is kind of defeating if you read mail on many machines with something like a POP mail reader like claws/thunderbird. And BPQ does not have an IMAP server which would be more ideal for marking things read. So I tried to set the unread timer to 0, it just generates has not read mail. I guess I can put something outrageous at 9999 days or something but then it'll effect things more globally than just my user. PS I do read my mail, despite the system lying on me. :D -k
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BPQ - VARA
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We are in the process of creating a new node which has a VARA port. This is working for outgoing connects and some incoming connects. We have a total of 11 applications, each using a different ssid of the node call. It appears that only the node call and the first 5 applications are made available to VARA for incoming connects. The node call is WX4MC-8 RMS is temporary using WX4MC-14 - this will change to -10 when the node replaces the existing WX4MC-10. Attempting an incoming connect to WX4MC-14 (Application 6) or any higher application is denied by VARA. So, are we missing something? Is the limit actually 6 and how are they determined? Does MYCALLS allow more that 6? Trying this did not work the first time.. Thanks John WB4MOZ APPLICATION 1,BBS,,WX4MC,MCBBS,220 APPLICATION 2,OF1,C K4WOF-1,WX4MC-1,OF1,160 APPLICATION 3,WELL3,C WB4MOZ-3,WX4MC-2,160 APPLICATION 4,PKT8,C K4PKT-8,WX4MC-4,160 APPLICATION 5,OT2,C W4OT-2,WX4MC-5,160 APPLICATION 6,RMS,C 7 CMS,WX4MC-14,RMS,194 APPLICATION 7,RMS1,C W4SPR-10,WX4MC-6,SPRRMS,194 APPLICATION 8,RMS2,C KEWOF-10,WX4MC-7,WOFRMS,190 APPLICATION 9,RMS3,C WB4MOZ-10,WX4MC-9,MOZRMS,190 APPLICATION 11,CHAT,,WX4MC-11,MCCHT,190 APPLICATION 12,PBC,,WX4MC-12,PBCCHT,190
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LinBPQ Winlink error message
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Hello folks; I inherited the sysop duties from a SK. The system is operating on a Linux computer with packet only. I noticed that when I start LinBPQ I receive a message that says: WL2K Traffic Reporting disabled - Gateway WA9C-10 does not have a Winlink Account WL2K Reporting disabled - Gateway WA9C does not have a Winlink Account I have logged into Winlink and the call is there. The WA9C-10 node is not showing up on the Channel Selection but the system is processing messages fine. I'm a bit new to the Sysop game so any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks Dave WB9YIG (WA9C sysop)
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RIGCONTROL format/options
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I found that the 7300 needs a little more commands to control the mode like USB-D can someone explain the different options available. like P123, R1.. I assume R1 is for the radio number but I have to find a document that goes into more detail then the info below Supported Radios: Kenwood TS590S/SG ICOM IC7100 ICOM IC7200 ICOM IC7300 ICOM IC7410 ICOM IC7600 Yaesu FT991/991A If you are running a Sound Card Modem using the internal soundcard and PACTOR (or other TNC Modes) using the AUX connector the input to the modulator has to be changed depending on which is transmitting. As the Soundcard TNC sends PTT ON and PTT OFF commands to the application, these can be used to switch the input source. To enable this add PTT_SETS_INPUT to the RIGCONTROL config, eg RIGCONTROL COM8 19200 ICOM IC7100 88 PTT_SETS_INPUT 6,14.110,usb,F1,d,P123,R1 6,28.110,usb,F1,d,P123,R1 **** THanks in advance Robert Cartier kd1jg@...
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s there a port config or ic-7300 usb-d mode setting on vara port
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Hi all Is there a command or file I can update to allow the icom ic-7300 to switch to USB-D mode when using vara. on a CI-V PTT This works fine on winlink express but when I am starting bpq and vara comes up it shows registered and will work as long as I manually enable usb-d mode. I dont see any options besides the USB and this is problem as I would like to scan a few frequencies PORT PORTNUM=1 ID=HF VARA DRIVER=VARA INTERLOCK=1 PORTCALL=XXXXX-10 CONFIG ADDR 127.0.0.1 8300 PTT CI-V PATH C:\VARA\VARA.exe APPL BBS BW2300 RIGCONTROL COM4 19200 ICOM 7300 94 5,x.xxxx, USB,F1 **** ENDPORT Thanks in advance Robert Cartier kd1jg@...
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Adding a command in bpgq32.cfg for vara hf and ic-7300
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Well I have bpq talking to vara HF . But unlike winlink express there doesnt seem to be a command sent to the ic-7300 to switch it to USB-D I am using the CI-V and CAT. Is there a file that can be adjusted or a command to be sent to the radio to switch it to USB-D While I can set it manually it is a problem if I start to scan Any help would be appreciated TIA Rob - KD1JG
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