The ax25 app ‘beacon’ does what it says, it sends beacon packets, by default every 30 mins, e.g.
beacon -c KK6DCT-6 1 "Hello from KK6DCT-6 node!"
By default the callsign will be what you’ve configured for your node/tnc, but you can change that with the -c param. The next param is the ax25 interface number from /etc/ax25/axports, followed by your beacon message.
Have you figured out how to cancel a beacon? If I want to keep my computer hooked up to my radio but change frequencies, I need to be able to stop my beacon.
file: killbeacon.sh
#!/bin/bash
#kill beacon messages
killall beacon
file startbeacon.sh
#!/bin/bash
node=”KK6DCT-6″
msg=”Hello from $node node!”
howOftenInMinutes=1
killall beacon
beacon -c $node $howOftenInMinutes “$message”
Awesome,thanks!