[Linux-ham] new equipment tips and hamfest

[Kevin Otte]

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On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:20:26PM -0400, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 13:53, Magnus wrote:
> > I think better yet, to better fulfill the Linux evangelism interests of 
> > TriLUG, would be to fork Knoppix into a HAM distro that had a bootable 
> > Linux distro-on-CD with all the ham radio applications already 
> > installed.
> > 
> > Knoppix already has the necessary software included to install the 
> > distro to the HD if the user likes the distro.
> 
> Ooh! HamKnoppix (or KnoppixHam).  I like it.  Note that people are
> already doing this as the existence of distCCKnoppix shows.
> 
> Knoppix is really a cool distro.  It does some really cool things
> to be able to run from the CDrom.  That would definitely be the way 
> to go.

There exists an early fork of Debian for doing contesting:
http://debianham.sunsite.dk/

Admittedly you could probably do quite a bit more with a Knoppix style
distro, but you have to watch your hardware requirements.  It's been my
experience that most hams are going to want to run this stuff on older
hardware, not the family powerhouse.

> One thing we'd need to look into though, is how hard it would be to
> get sound working, and by extension the soundcard radio modem.
> That would allow people to do packet using just a radio, a small
> isolator circuit and their computer/soundcard.

The soundcard radio modem is going to be kind of tricky in its current
state.  You'd have to do your PnP stuff to get the address of the sound card
and then modprobe the proper module.  Also, soundmodem modules only exist
for a handful of soundcards.  I am definitely looking forward to kernel 2.6
when they move this out to userland.

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Kevin Otte, N8VNR
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http://www.nivex.net/

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