Hi Louis,
If you can hit any of the Eastnet nodes in NYC area, you could run a Flexnet-compatible node alongside BPQ on the same Linux machine using (X)Net.? I have that setup here which ends up RF-linking the local Eastnet network to the FRNPA/DEPN BPQ network in EPA (via VARA HF).? (X)Net works with Direwolf, no hardware TNC needed.? It "speaks" the Flexnet language.
Jeff KP3FT