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I’ve been on a serial terminal kick the last few months. I think it started when I picked up a used Sun Ultra 60 and found out you could boot with a serial terminal to diagnose boot issues, and/or logon via a serial terminal. I built a VT132 kit and this has worked well using …
After logging on to an ax25 node, you’re shown a message like this: DAVBBS:KK6DCT-6 Welcome to KK6DCT-6 network node Type ? for a list of commands. help <commandname> gives a description of the named command. — @kk6dct-6 20:52:01> This is what is shown by my node that I’m currently setting up. I’d like to show …
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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 …
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I’ve posted before about using a VT132 terminal board to control a PK-232 packet TNC. Here’s a few more specific steps and commands. On first startup after doing the * auto-baud detection, the first thing you’ll see is the “cmd” prompt. If this is your first time setting up, or if the internal battery is …
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