Re: Yet another newbie question.
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Thanks for the really quick response Andrew. Perhaps I will just look for another software that will work with direwolf to handl this and stick to APRS for YAAC.? ?I'm jsut really curious how much of the old packet radio still remains. I was very active back in the 80's.. wow.. where did time go.? 73 Brad N8YG
On Wednesday, March 25, 2020, 11:03:26 AM EDT, Andrew P. <andrewemt@...> wrote:
I can't say what those other stations actually are, so you'll have to try.
Regarding old-style connected packet mode: In theory, you should be able to do so. As long as DireWolf just passes all AX.25 packets through to YAAC, YAAC has a complete AX.25 stack to handle initiating and (if configured) receiving packet connections. You will need to configure your AGWPE or KISS port connection to DireWolf to support raw AX.25 packets instead of APRS. Presumably, these BB stations are also not on the standard APRS frequency as well (another reason to disable APRS on the port you use to try to connect to connected-mode packet stations, so you don't clutter the channel with APRS packets).
Once you are configured correctly, there is a "Connect to PBBS" choice on the "Message" menu that you would use to initiate connections. If you want keyboard-to-keyboard chats and want others to be able to connect to you, go to File->Configure->Expert Mode, and on the Preferences tab, check the "Accept inbound AX.25 connected-mode requests" checkbox. In that case, disable your APRS beacon and use your Status message to do your connected-mode beaconing so other connected-mode users can find you.
Note that YAAC is not optimized for this sort of thing. It was intended to be an APRS client, not a packet chat client or PBBS client. And the Chat option on the "Message" menu is not connected-mode packet chat; it does it by APRS text messaging, and just uses a instant messaging style window to keep the text messages from one remote station separated from all the other ones you would see in the View->Messages->Raw Messages window.
Hope this helps.
Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 10:48 AM
Subject: [yaac-users] Yet another newbie question.
Hi All, I see on the map station -bb.. are these ax.25 packet buliten boards, and can I configure YAAC with direwolf to talk to the old packet protocol??
73 Brad N8YG
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