From n2nov at n2nov.net Mon Jan 10 23:13:51 2022 From: n2nov at n2nov.net (Charles J. Hargrove) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 23:13:51 -0500 Subject: [HamGateMA] What is HamGateMA? Message-ID: <24814f7f-31d9-33fe-39c5-0b671ae44a28@n2nov.net> Welcome to your HamGate mailing list for all things RF digital. There are HamGate mailing lists for various areas of the Northeast from Maine to Maryland based on activity/allocations: HamGateNNE (VT, NH, ME) HamGateMA HamGateSNE (CT, RI) HamGateNY HamGateNJ HamGatePA HamGateMDE (MD, DE) This includes 44Net TCP/IP allocations, packet radio networking, various BBS flavors (BPQ, FBB, Flex, JNOS, Xnet, Xrouter, UROnode, etc), APRS, digital voice repeaters, etc. Basically anything that routes a message from one system or area to another. By keeping the mailing list limited to a particular area, it allows neighboring sysops the opportunity to get to know each other and work together. There are plenty of other mailing lists that are specific to a mode or flavor of software, but very little can be found that is more local. Our goal is to have every type of system share links and ideas to effectively move traffic (personal mail, bulletins, Radiograms, etc) in an organized way that is totally agnostic to the software and hardware being used. We strive to be forward looking without leaving anyone behind. We all have different strengths and weaknesses, but we can all help someone else to join in and participate. If you have a particular tech background that can help, we need to hear from you. A user account was set up for you on this mailing list based on your having a 44Net allocation now or at one time, a recommendation by a fellow sysop or you asked to join. This mailing list is public and open to all. You can unsubscribe at anytime as there will be a monthly reminder sent to you with your system generated password. As an introduction, my name is Charles Hargrove (N2NOV) and I have been involved with packet since the early 90s, set up the N2NOV JNOS BBS in 1997, founded the NY-NBEMS and USeast-NBEMS nets on HF in 2011 for using FLdigi modes for EmComm and radiogram messaging. I was the EC for Staten Island (NYC), DEC for NYC from 1999 to late 2003 (included Y2K, 9/11-WTC and the 2003 Blackout). In late 2003 the active members and leadership of NYC ARES went independent and formed the NYC Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Service for EmComm training and public service. I am deeply involved with Radio Relay International and maintain their website and traffic net database. I have been the 44Net Coordinator for NY State since 2014. Last week I was asked to take over 44Net coordination for the states that N1URO controlled after he suddenly passed away. I hope that together we can keep things going forward, help those who want to get involved, reactivate those who fell by the wayside over the years and build out a resilient RF network that will support any outage or overload in our various states. State emergency management agencies are looking for this resilience and many here are looking to do just that. Let's keep ALL of the lines of communication open between us. -- Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV NYC-ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord. NYC-ARECS/RACES Nets 441.100/136.5 PL ARnewsline Broadcast Mon. @ 8:00PM NYC-ARECS Weekly Net Mon. @ 8:30PM http://www.nyc-arecs.org NY-NBEMS Net Saturdays @ 10AM & USeast-NBEMS Net Wednesdays @ 7PM on 7.036 Mhz USB (alt 3.536)/1500 hz waterfall spot; MFSK-16 or 32 "Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." - Ronald Reagan "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus "Molann an obair an fear" - Irish Saying (The work praises the man.) "No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers." - Ronald Reagan From n2nov at n2nov.net Mon Jan 24 13:24:48 2022 From: n2nov at n2nov.net (Charles J. Hargrove) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 13:24:48 -0500 Subject: [HamGateMA] Basics of Using 44Net Message-ID: <5e4faaf0-f049-59fd-99e4-59e23810c44f@n2nov.net> Here are some things to get you started on using 44Net (not just packet): from 2012 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMI9YSM0mzY from 2018 - https://youtu.be/OxsmGaFZ2MM?t=49 from 2019 - https://youtu.be/s4PHUJbLtMk?t=8 The best place to get help with various configurations to get 44Net to work with your equipment is to subscribe to the 44Net mailing list and ask there. There is a deep pool of people with various experiences to help. The Wiki has many articles https://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Main_Page and registration for the mailing list is also at the AMPR.org portal https://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/44Net_mailing_list -- Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV NYC-ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord. NYC-ARECS/RACES Nets 441.100/136.5 PL ARnewsline Broadcast Mon. @ 8:00PM NYC-ARECS Weekly Net Mon. @ 8:30PM http://www.nyc-arecs.org NY-NBEMS Net Saturdays @ 10AM & USeast-NBEMS Net Wednesdays @ 7PM on 7.036 Mhz USB (alt 3.536)/1500 hz waterfall spot; MFSK-16 or 32 "Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." - Ronald Reagan "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus "Molann an obair an fear" - Irish Saying (The work praises the man.) "No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers." - Ronald Reagan From n2nov at n2nov.net Tue Jan 25 10:23:03 2022 From: n2nov at n2nov.net (Charles J. Hargrove) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 10:23:03 -0500 Subject: [HamGateMA] Why DNS Records After Creating Public Gateway Message-ID: After receiving your allocation, setting up your public gateway address and linking your subnet to it, some are wondering why the DNS records for them need to be set up in the database by the state coordinator. > What is the DNS on your side for? > What is the typical DNS entry usually used? A typical DNS will always have your callsign followed by ampr.org. Anything before your callsign typically describes what is is used for. Some examples could be: n2nov.ampr.org gw.n2nov.ampr.org 220.n2nov.ampr.org webcam.n2nov.ampr.org While all allocation holders are part of a "mesh" by virtue that their subnet is linked to a public gateway, connections between us do not hit UCSD at all. Any use of the "mesh" IPIP encap table locally is via the AMPR-RIPD program to set up iptables as opposed to manually updating them. The encap table is broadcast every five minutes to anyone in the public gateway table with at least one DNS record. I personally use the DOTUN.SH script to set up the variables for setting up a tunnel on my Linux box, call the AMPR-RIPD program to accept the encap broadcast and set up the iptables. When someone is coming from outside of 44Net, they will enter through UCSD and the DNS table along with the gateways list will be used to send them to their destination. Your local security structure will expose certain ports or require passwords. My JNOS bbs has certain ports open for things like telnet, chat, ftp, POP3 and all others are set to deny entry. I then have each user's callsign in a table with their password. Anyone not in the table is allowed only the minimum permissions of reading messages or sending a message to the sysop, but no message creation or node hopping. -- Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV NYC-ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord. NYC-ARECS/RACES Nets 441.100/136.5 PL ARnewsline Broadcast Mon. @ 8:00PM NYC-ARECS Weekly Net Mon. @ 8:30PM http://www.nyc-arecs.org NY-NBEMS Net Saturdays @ 10AM & USeast-NBEMS Net Wednesdays @ 7PM on 7.036 Mhz USB (alt 3.536)/1500 hz waterfall spot; MFSK-16 or 32 "Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." - Ronald Reagan "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus "Molann an obair an fear" - Irish Saying (The work praises the man.) "No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers." - Ronald Reagan From crossd at gmail.com Tue Jan 25 16:13:12 2022 From: crossd at gmail.com (Dan Cross) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:13:12 -0500 Subject: [HamGateMA] Introducing myself. Message-ID: Hello Folks, Thanks to Charles for setting up this mailing list; perhaps we can see some regional communication and maybe even some collaborative projects. My name is Dan Cross, KZ2X, and my QTH is in Cambridge, MA. I am the author of 44ripd (https://github.com/dancrossnyc/44ripd), a mesh routing maintenance daemon for OpenBSD, and I wrote the wiki page for setting up an AMPRNet gateway on OpenBSD ( https://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Setting_up_a_gateway_on_OpenBSD). I have been slowly working with Robert Quattlebaum, N6DRC, on a new link-layer protocol derived from 6LoWPAN designed for slow- and medium-speed IPv6 internetworking over amateur radio; one can find out more here: https://github.com/arngll I run a variety of timesharing systems on my AMPRNet allocation, and happily give out accounts to any hams who are interested; after all, what's the point of having these resources if we don't make use of them? There's a massively over-powered Unix machine (16 i7 threads, 64 GiB RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD), a DECSYSTEM-20 running TOPS-20, a VAX running VMS, a DPS8/M running Multics, a PDP-11/70 running 7th Edition Research Unix, a PDP-11/93 running RSTS/E, another VAX running 4.3BSD Unix, a CDC Cyber-175 running NOS and finally an IBM 4381 mainframe running VM/CMS. My systems are also accessible from AX.25 via KZ2X-1 in the greater Boston area, or KZPAD:KZ2X-3 via NET/ROM. I occasionally write about amateur radio on a blog at https://kz2x.radio, and if you'd like to find out more about me, please check out my QRZ page ( https://qrz.com/db/KZ2X), github (https://github.com/dancrossnyc/) or my personal web page (http://pub.gajendra.net/). I am particularly interested in what the HamWan folks over in western Washington state are doing with the Puget Sound Data Ring: they have a high-speed, multi-megabit network going from Olympia all the way north into Canada, just south of Vancouver, BC. It's ambitious, but I would love to see something like that covering the eastern seaboard from DC through NYC and Boston and up through Maine or into Nova Scotia. It would be amazing to have IP connectivity throughout the NE corridor and see AXUDP/AXIP interconnected AX.25 networks running over that infrastructure. I'd love to hear from some other local AMPRNet users! 73 de KZ2X, - Dan C. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From n2nov at n2nov.net Fri Jan 28 10:35:59 2022 From: n2nov at n2nov.net (Charles J. Hargrove) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 10:35:59 -0500 Subject: [HamGateMA] Responses Needed ASAP Before Purging Records Message-ID: In an effort to clarify and cleanup the databases, I have been reaching out to all of the stations with either a 44Net allocation or stale DNS records since January 11th. I have heard back from many of you and I have made note of your current status. Starting February 1st (next Tuesday), I will be purging the stale DNS records and the 44Net allocations with no public gateways and/or no DNS records of the following stations if I have not heard from them by then. If you know the following stations, then please reach out to them and let them know to contact me ASAP via email or at 917-991-0356 any evening or all day Sunday and Monday. KF1G KC1NCN WA1MDD N1WVQ KC1ETB NG3E K1RAU KC1EDX K1WDY KC1KLN N7FYO KB1PQB N1YRK -- Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV NYC-ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord. NYC-ARECS/RACES Nets 441.100/136.5 PL ARnewsline Broadcast Mon. @ 8:00PM NYC-ARECS Weekly Net Mon. @ 8:30PM http://www.nyc-arecs.org NY-NBEMS Net Saturdays @ 10AM & USeast-NBEMS Net Wednesdays @ 7PM on 7.036 Mhz USB (alt 3.536)/1500 hz waterfall spot; MFSK-16 or 32 "Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." - Ronald Reagan "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus "Molann an obair an fear" - Irish Saying (The work praises the man.) "No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers." - Ronald Reagan From phillip at wr2x.net Fri Jan 28 13:39:12 2022 From: phillip at wr2x.net (Phillip Bailey) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 13:39:12 -0500 Subject: [HamGateMA] Introduction Message-ID: <985EAD96-8F32-497D-9119-42E358FD3332@wr2x.net> Hi All, I?m Phillip Bailey, WR2X, and wanted to introduce myself and what I?m up to currently with my AMPRNet allocation. I?m currently operating a packet node running URONode accessible via WR2X-2 on AX.25 2m 145.09 MHz, telnet to wr2x-2.ampr.org port 3694 (accessible from AMPRNet IPs only), and theoretically WR2XN:WR2X-12 via NET/ROM (this has been flaky and I haven?t devoted the time to debug it yet). The node currently doesn?t have much functionality, but you can see the current weather at my QTH in Dedham, MA and telnet to other AMPRNet hosts. I run my gateway on OpenWrt using a customized version of RIP44.lua (https://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/RIP44.lua ) and host web interfaces to my weather stations at wr2x-13.ampr.org and wr2x-4.ampr.org that are accessible through the UCSD gateway. I?d be happy to collaborate with others in the area, particularly on projects at 13 cm and 5 cm. Feel free to reach out! 73 de WR2X -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From n2nov at n2nov.net Sat Jan 29 15:41:03 2022 From: n2nov at n2nov.net (Charles J. Hargrove) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 15:41:03 -0500 Subject: [HamGateMA] Setting Up a Public Gateway and DNS Records Message-ID: <5b3473f8-54e4-b356-44a1-3497320cd689@n2nov.net> A common thread that I am seeing is that people don't know about setting up their Public Gateway entry and/or submitting DNS record entries for the DNS servers around the world. Both of these things are needed to route packets to and from your devices on your 44Net allocation. Here is a quick two page PDF tutorial that shows you how to do these things. The gateway entry is done by you in your AMPR Portal account and the DNS records are emailed to me for submission to the DNS database. -- Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV NYC-ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord. NYC-ARECS/RACES Nets 441.100/136.5 PL ARnewsline Broadcast Mon. @ 8:00PM NYC-ARECS Weekly Net Mon. @ 8:30PM http://www.nyc-arecs.org NY-NBEMS Net Saturdays @ 10AM & USeast-NBEMS Net Wednesdays @ 7PM on 7.036 Mhz USB (alt 3.536)/1500 hz waterfall spot; MFSK-16 or 32 "Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." - Ronald Reagan "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus "Molann an obair an fear" - Irish Saying (The work praises the man.) 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These are informative, so please keep in distributing them! 73, Jay Rogers N1WVQ Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 28, 2022, at 10:36, Charles J. Hargrove wrote: > > ?In an effort to clarify and cleanup the databases, I have been reaching out > to all of the stations with either a 44Net allocation or stale DNS records > since January 11th. I have heard back from many of you and I have made note > of your current status. Starting February 1st (next Tuesday), I will be > purging the stale DNS records and the 44Net allocations with no public > gateways and/or no DNS records of the following stations if I have not > heard from them by then. If you know the following stations, then please > reach out to them and let them know to contact me ASAP via email or at > 917-991-0356 any evening or all day Sunday and Monday. > > KF1G > KC1NCN > WA1MDD > N1WVQ > KC1ETB > NG3E > K1RAU > KC1EDX > K1WDY > KC1KLN > N7FYO > KB1PQB > N1YRK > > -- > Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV > NYC-ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord. > > NYC-ARECS/RACES Nets 441.100/136.5 PL > ARnewsline Broadcast Mon. @ 8:00PM > NYC-ARECS Weekly Net Mon. @ 8:30PM > http://www.nyc-arecs.org > > NY-NBEMS Net Saturdays @ 10AM & USeast-NBEMS Net Wednesdays @ 7PM > on 7.036 Mhz USB (alt 3.536)/1500 hz waterfall spot; MFSK-16 or 32 > > "Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped > by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." - Ronald Reagan > > "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus > > "Molann an obair an fear" - Irish Saying > (The work praises the man.) > > "No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it > provides, it can never take the place of volunteers." - Ronald Reagan > From n2nov at n2nov.net Sat Jan 29 21:25:13 2022 From: n2nov at n2nov.net (Charles J. Hargrove) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 21:25:13 -0500 Subject: [HamGateMA] Responses Needed ASAP Before Purging Records In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <955549e3-ef52-fa64-948b-bab805073d54@n2nov.net> As for why 44Net, I would liken it to our private little "mesh" sandbox just for hams where we can trust an incoming connection from another 44 station. Some people have their /24 allocations as BGP hosted at a datacenter and then use VPN tunnels from their house or portable device to the datacenter. Did you see the three video links last week on 1/24? All devices on 44Net must by virtue of Part97 and the ARDC rules be ham related, but they can be accessed by the great unwashed if you want to. My JNOS bbs has been running since late 1997 on 44Net and I allow non-hams to read messages but they can only send a message to me. Hams can register on my system and get all of the privs to post messages and bulletins, node hop, etc. Some on this list have introduced themselves and described their systems. Others who have not should not be shy and share a little. ;) On 1/29/2022 5:52 PM, Jay Rogers wrote: > I want to use my addresses, however, it has never been clear to me how they can be used. I tried asking people I know have more computer knowledge than I do, but they too were confused about how this all works. Can I have the 44 address be the avatar for my devices on my home router, which goes thru Verizon? It seems the info you?ve given out of late would be yes, contrary to what I?ve been told. These are informative, so please keep in distributing them! > > 73, > Jay Rogers > N1WVQ -- Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV NYC-ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord. NYC-ARECS/RACES Nets 441.100/136.5 PL ARnewsline Broadcast Mon. @ 8:00PM NYC-ARECS Weekly Net Mon. @ 8:30PM http://www.nyc-arecs.org NY-NBEMS Net Saturdays @ 10AM & USeast-NBEMS Net Wednesdays @ 7PM on 7.036 Mhz USB (alt 3.536)/1500 hz waterfall spot; MFSK-16 or 32 "Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." - Ronald Reagan "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus "Molann an obair an fear" - Irish Saying (The work praises the man.) "No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers." - Ronald Reagan From wr2x at wr2x.net Sun Jan 30 10:37:24 2022 From: wr2x at wr2x.net (Phillip Bailey) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 15:37:24 -0000 Subject: [HamGateMA] Introduction - resending Message-ID: <2e5dcb52-e77a-4a1f-baff-47848634703d@me.com> (Sorry for the duplicate message if you've already seen this. My email client was misconfigured and that resulted in my original message being flagged as spam for a number of people.)Hi All,I?m Phillip Bailey, WR2X, and wanted to introduce myself and what I?m up to currently with my AMPRNet allocation. I?m currently operating a packet node running URONode accessible via WR2X-2 on AX.25 2m 145.09 MHz, telnet to?wr2x-2.ampr.org?port 3694 (accessible from AMPRNet IPs only), and theoretically WR2XN:WR2X-12 via NET/ROM (this has been flaky and I haven?t devoted the time to debug it yet). The node currently doesn?t have much functionality, but you can see the current weather at my QTH in Dedham, MA and telnet to other AMPRNet hosts. I run my gateway on OpenWrt using a customized version of RIP44.lua (https://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/RIP44.lua) and host web interfaces to my weather stations at?wr2x-13.ampr.org?and?wr2x-4.ampr.org?that are accessible through the UCSD gateway.I?d be happy to collaborate with others in the area, particularly on projects at 13 cm and 5 cm. Feel free to reach out!?73 de WR2Xwr2x at wr2x.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From n2nov at n2nov.net Mon Jan 31 11:55:53 2022 From: n2nov at n2nov.net (Charles J. Hargrove) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 11:55:53 -0500 Subject: [HamGateMA] Welcome N2KGC, President of Eastnet Message-ID: <9513248d-9489-b8dd-f7b0-b50fe739f33d@n2nov.net> Brian Webster (N2KGC) is the President of Eastnet and replace N1URO last year. I have added him to this mailing list as there are UROnode, Flexnet, Xnet systems across the northeast. Conversations with him over many years shows that he thinks along the same way as I do. The network needs to be agnostic to the software as long as we can talk to each other, route to each other and pass along messages to each other. I am sure that he will jump in soon to introduce himself and get some interesting conversations going as we look forward to the future of networking and not stay stuck in the 90s. -- Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV NYC-ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord. NYC-ARECS/RACES Nets 441.100/136.5 PL ARnewsline Broadcast Mon. @ 8:00PM NYC-ARECS Weekly Net Mon. @ 8:30PM http://www.nyc-arecs.org NY-NBEMS Net Saturdays @ 10AM & USeast-NBEMS Net Wednesdays @ 7PM on 7.036 Mhz USB (alt 3.536)/1500 hz waterfall spot; MFSK-16 or 32 "Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." - Ronald Reagan "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus "Molann an obair an fear" - Irish Saying (The work praises the man.) "No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers." - Ronald Reagan