Hello Kim,

Try sending ?APRSD to JACKTN which is our local digi_ned digi. If  you
get a reply let me know.

I am local to our digi_ned digi so I have never tried to get a reply
from a remote area.

Thanks
Richard
KB4YTM


--- In digined@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Baxter" <dave@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Kim..
>
> Not sure yet, I'm still learning my way round all this, but might there
> be some setup for the path to use for a query reply, different to that
> used for a "normal" beacon?  There is an awfull lot in there to mess
> with if you need to.
>
> Maybe your reply is getting sent OK (can anyone else local to your digi
> see it when you ask for it) and it's getting to an I-Gate, but from then
> on, any gate near where you are, may not repeat that internet traffic to
> RF.
>
> Or maybe your query is not getting to your digi?
>
> I think there is too many variables, any of which would stop you from
> seeing your query reply.
>
> There are also several other sources of satellite tracking data, some
> programs will run on a PDA if you have such a thing.  Guess you are
> looking to use something like a D7 or D700 only?
>
> 73
>
> Dave G0WBX
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kim, AC7YY
> > Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 12:58 AM
> > To: digined@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [digined] Query via DIGI
> >
> > Why is it that when I am outside my local coverage area I am
> > unable to receive a query reply back via any digipeater? When
> > digi_ned sends, as a result of a query, the path is set at
> > WIDE2-2, way plenty to hit a high level digi and/or an Igate.
> >
> > Is there something unique about a digi_ned query transmission
> > where normal digi settings do not pass them through?
> >
> > Is there a something I can do here to get them to pass
> > through a digi or and Igate?
> >
> > I really miss my satellite TRK and SAT information when I am
> > away from my local area.2
> >
> > Kim - AC7YY
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> This mail has been scanned by Palmer Cook Computer Services Limited.
  www.palmercook.co.uk
>

I'm trying to get a small igate configuration running on a WRT54G.
I have the "embedded" digi_ned 0.3.5, and an AX.25 kernel
(White Russian 0.9 w/X-wrt). I'm slowly learning how to configure ax.25
under linux.

My struggle tonight is how to tell digi_ned which AX.25 port to use!
The help file (digi_ned -h) says

--

digi_ned [-h] | -p <port> [-v] [<digi_ned.ini>]

To use this digipeater you must specify the port using the '-p'option.
This option takes a string that defindes the port in thefollowing
form:

-p <tty-device>:<baudrate>:<nr-of-ports>

The KISS device needs to have at least one port,more ports follow the
MKISS standaard. There can be only one tty-device with this version.

--

OK, fine. I have no idea what the MKISS standard is, and google
doesn't help me discover it... but when I run 'listen -a', I see
no output, even though digi_ned -v shows me that it's sending
beacons.

Help?

Thanks...

73 de chris K6DBG

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:03:26 -0700 (PDT), Chris Kantarjiev wrote:

>OK, fine. I have no idea what the MKISS standard is, and google
>doesn't help me discover it... but when I run 'listen -a', I see
>no output, even though digi_ned -v shows me that it's sending
>beacons.
>
>Help?


I can't get into specifics, because it's been several years.  But when I did
this, I followed the instructions in Henk's documentation TO THE LETTER, and
read the online ax.25 HOWTOs for additional input.  That gave me the tools
and info I needed to eventually get it to work.

However....

I eventually discovered it wasn't necessary.  Digi_ned and aprsd will happily
share the same KISS port connected directly.  Packets fed to APRS-IS don't
need to be filtered through digi_ned rules (in fact, it may be better that
they AREN'T), and aprsd should do a good job at deciding what needs to be
gated back to RF.

I'm currently running Xastir as my Igate, sharing the same KISS port with
digi_ned under a different SSID.  It seems to be working pretty well, and
doesn't appear to be generating excess digipeats.  IIRC, I put the Igate
call-SSID in the digi_ned BLOCK and VIABLOCK lists just to make
sure.

http://www.db0anf.de/hamweb/aprsdb/showdata/NU0C-1/shdigiusers?sortdigiusers=l
d
http://www.db0anf.de/hamweb/aprsdb/showdata/NU0C-15/shdigiusers?sortdigiusers=
ld

Hope this helps.

-Jim


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Well ... it appears that the comment about "following the MKISS
standard" means that the embedded digi_ned code will deal with a
multiport TNC on the serial line. It doesn't mean that it does ax.25
ports.

Sigh.

But your comment about aprsd and digi_ned sharing the serial port is
*really* interesting. I might just have to go try that with my THD7
... it would be grand if it worked!

Thanks,
chris

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:05:58 -0000, Chris Kantarjiev wrote:

>Well ... it appears that the comment about "following the MKISS
>standard" means that the embedded digi_ned code will deal with a
>multiport TNC on the serial line. It doesn't mean that it does ax.25
>ports.


The fact that you were using the embedded code completely escaped me.  I
haven't experimented with that.


>But your comment about aprsd and digi_ned sharing the serial port is
>*really* interesting. I might just have to go try that with my THD7
>... it would be grand if it worked!


AFAIK, only works in KISS mode.  Linux apps tend to lock the serial port and
generally don't play well with each other, but KISS ports are shareable.

But I'm no expert, believe me....

73

-Jim


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> >But your comment about aprsd and digi_ned sharing the serial port is
> >*really* interesting. I might just have to go try that with my THD7
> >... it would be grand if it worked!
>
>
> AFAIK, only works in KISS mode.  Linux apps tend to lock the serial
port and
> generally don't play well with each other, but KISS ports are shareable.

Oh. You mean KISS-mode AX.25 ports, not KISS-on-serial ports.

That makes a lot more sense; I was trying to figure out why/how Linux
was going to duplicate the data coming down the serial line, so it
could be read both by digi_ned and aprsd ...

Bummer. I thought this was a solution.

It's true that both digi_ned and aprsd seem happy to open the serial
port ... but I'm not sure it's doing aprsd any good!

Back to the drawing board. I might need to find someone with a WRT
toolchain to compile both of these for me.

Could you, for the sake of posterity, describe your setup in detail?
How are you configuring the ports, with kissattach?

73,
chris

OK, I have this working, after a fashion. The idea of connecting both
digi_ned and aprsd to the same KISS port was the right direction. By using
kissattach and net2kiss, I was able to do this, after some hair pulling
about ptys - the WRT uses Unix98 pty naming, but net2kiss counts on
legacy pty naming. Luckily, the kernel is compiled with support for
legacy ptys.

Google knows everything, if you look hard enough.

I finally found

http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/devices.txt

which told me how the legacy pty devices are numbered and named.
With that in hand, I can

# makedevs /dev/ptyp c 2 0 0 8
# makedevs /dev/ttyp c 3 0 0 8
# cat < /dev/ptyp0 &
# echo hi > /dev/ttyp0
hi
# cat: Read error: Input/output error

That looks pretty good to me. Now for the acid test...

# kissattach /dev/tts/1 1 192.168.44.3
AX.25 port 1 bound to device ax0
# net2kiss -i ax0 /dev/ptyp0 &
# net2kiss -i ax0 /dev/ptyp1 &

# digi_ned -p /dev/ttyp0:9600:1 -v &

sure enough, the radio transmits!

# aprsd &

(aprsd.conf has tncport set to /dev/ttyp1)

sure enough, the radio transmits!

And both packages seem to see the packets... aprsd is writing packets
into the log, but I think that they're raw KISS packets, not something
I can read :-/

The ptys don't survive a reboot, btw.

aprsd does *not* seem to be sending the RF packets to the net. I'm connected
to port 10151, and all I see are the aprsd NetBeacons. (Anyone know
where to find aprsd experts?)

73 de chris K6DBG

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:45:31 -0700 (PDT), Chris Kantarjiev wrote:

>aprsd does *not* seem to be sending the RF packets to the net. I'm connected
>to port 10151, and all I see are the aprsd NetBeacons. (Anyone know
>where to find aprsd experts?)


aprsd should be dumping everrything it hears to the net.  Are you using a
valid passcode?


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I probably spoke too soon. It appears that aprsd isn't prepared
(at least in the manner I have it configured) to deal with a KISS
TNC - just a KISS AX.25 port (if my version supported AX.25).

Back to do some more digging around... or find the equivalent of net2kiss
that generates "plain TNC" output!

73,
chris

Hi All,

Any words of advice for compiling under Ubuntu?  The process fails
when I do "make depend"; the error is that gccmakedep doesn't exist
on Ubuntu, and it doesn't exist when I try to install it.

gjd@maxwell:~/digined/digi_ned$ make depend
gccmakedep -DNEW_AX25 -D_SATTRACKER_ -D_TELEMETRY_ -D_WX_ -
D_OUTPORT_ -D_PTT_ -D_SERIAL_ -D_LINUX_ -- -I./ -I/usr/include -
I/usr/local/include -- call.c digipeat.c genlib.c keep.c main.c
message.c preempt.c mheard.c distance.c dx.c output.c read_ini.c
send.c timer.c telemetr.c command.c mac_if.c linux.c cygwin.c
predict.c sat.c kiss.c agwpe.c serial.c wx.c
make: gccmakedep: Command not found
make: *** [depend] Error 127

gjd@maxwell:~/digined/digi_ned$

gjd@maxwell:~/digined/digi_ned$ sudo apt-get install gccmakedep
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package gccmakedep


73s,

Greg

Hello Greg,
Welcome to the group.

I haven't had that problem myself, but here is a link to gccmakedep:

http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/util/gccmakedep-1.0.2.tar.bz2

$ tar xvfz gccmakedep-1.0.2.tar.gz
$ cd gccmakedep-1.0.2
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

Found the above with a google search, so you'll have to let us know if
it works not not. Hope this helps.

Richard
KB4YTM




--- In digined@yahoogroups.com, "Greg" <ve9gfi@...> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Any words of advice for compiling under Ubuntu?  The process fails
> when I do "make depend"; the error is that gccmakedep doesn't exist
> on Ubuntu, and it doesn't exist when I try to install it.
>
> gjd@maxwell:~/digined/digi_ned$ make depend
> gccmakedep -DNEW_AX25 -D_SATTRACKER_ -D_TELEMETRY_ -D_WX_ -
> D_OUTPORT_ -D_PTT_ -D_SERIAL_ -D_LINUX_ -- -I./ -I/usr/include -
> I/usr/local/include -- call.c digipeat.c genlib.c keep.c main.c
> message.c preempt.c mheard.c distance.c dx.c output.c read_ini.c
> send.c timer.c telemetr.c command.c mac_if.c linux.c cygwin.c
> predict.c sat.c kiss.c agwpe.c serial.c wx.c
> make: gccmakedep: Command not found
> make: *** [depend] Error 127
>
> gjd@maxwell:~/digined/digi_ned$
>
> gjd@maxwell:~/digined/digi_ned$ sudo apt-get install gccmakedep
> Password:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Couldn't find package gccmakedep
>
>
> 73s,
>
> Greg
>

Hi Richard,

Thanks for your help.  My issue was completely ubuntu / gcc
related.  A couple googles, and an install of "build-essential"
solved the compilation problems.  After applying your fix, the next
set of errors were missing header files like stdio.h, time.h, etc.

Funny though, the apt-get install build-essential doesn't completely
work ... it was looking for an older version of linux-libc-dev file:

  .... linux-libc-dev_2.6.20-16.29_i386.deb and apt-get kept saying
that the file couldn't be retreived from the ubuntu mirror.

The fix was to manually download the closest version, 16.31, and
manually install it using :

dpkg install linux-libc-dev_2.6.20-16.31_i386.deb

Then proceed again with apt-get install build-essentials, which
cleanly installed.


Regards,

Greg VE9GFI
--- In digined@yahoogroups.com, "KB4YTM" <kb4ytm@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Greg,
> Welcome to the group.
>
> I haven't had that problem myself, but here is a link to
gccmakedep:
>
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/util/gccmakedep-
1.0.2.tar.bz2
>
> $ tar xvfz gccmakedep-1.0.2.tar.gz
> $ cd gccmakedep-1.0.2
> $ ./configure
> $ make
> $ make install
>
> Found the above with a google search, so you'll have to let us
know if
> it works not not. Hope this helps.
>
> Richard
> KB4YTM
>
>
>
>
> --- In digined@yahoogroups.com, "Greg" <ve9gfi@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Any words of advice for compiling under Ubuntu?  The process
fails
> > when I do "make depend"; the error is that gccmakedep doesn't
exist
> > on Ubuntu, and it doesn't exist when I try to install it.
> >
> > gjd@maxwell:~/digined/digi_ned$ make depend
> > gccmakedep -DNEW_AX25 -D_SATTRACKER_ -D_TELEMETRY_ -D_WX_ -
> > D_OUTPORT_ -D_PTT_ -D_SERIAL_ -D_LINUX_ -- -I./ -I/usr/include -
> > I/usr/local/include -- call.c digipeat.c genlib.c keep.c main.c
> > message.c preempt.c mheard.c distance.c dx.c output.c read_ini.c
> > send.c timer.c telemetr.c command.c mac_if.c linux.c cygwin.c
> > predict.c sat.c kiss.c agwpe.c serial.c wx.c
> > make: gccmakedep: Command not found
> > make: *** [depend] Error 127
> >
> > gjd@maxwell:~/digined/digi_ned$
> >
> > gjd@maxwell:~/digined/digi_ned$ sudo apt-get install gccmakedep
> > Password:
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > E: Couldn't find package gccmakedep
> >
> >
> > 73s,
> >
> > Greg
> >
>

Hi all,

I'm not able to compile with AX25, but I am able to do it with KISS.

If I run the TNC in KISS mode, is this KISS-compiled version going to
work?

Also, any clues as to where I can locate the "ax25/axconfig.h" file
when using INTERFACE = NEW_AX25?

mac_if.c:226:27: error: ax25/axconfig.h: No such file or directory

I have ax25-tools and ax25-apps installed.

Regards,

Greg

It's been a while since I set all this up...


On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:55:28 -0000, Greg wrote:

>If I run the TNC in KISS mode, is this KISS-compiled version going to
>work?

The cool thing about running a KISS TNC is that multiple apps can share the
TNC.  I'm currently running Digi_Ned for RF digipeating, Xastir for mapping
and Igating, APRSHog for statistics, and (occasionally) aprsd and listen -
all using the same ax25 TNC port.


>Also, any clues as to where I can locate the "ax25/axconfig.h" file
>when using INTERFACE = NEW_AX25?
>
>mac_if.c:226:27: error: ax25/axconfig.h: No such file or directory
>
>I have ax25-tools and ax25-apps installed.


IIRC, you need the ax25 development package to get the heqder files you need
to compile stuff.


73,

-Jim


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Hello all,

First of all season greetings from Holland and the best wishes for 2008.

A very long time ago the project site of DIGI_NED went down due to an
ISP change. Now it is back! PE1MEW has build a new site at
http://pe1mew.nl/digi_ned/.

The DIGI_NED portal at http://www.qsl.net/digi_ned/ also redirects to
the new site now.

I als changed http://www.homepages.hetnet.nl/~pe1dnn/ and added links
the new site.

Kind regards

Henk - PE1DNN

Hi all,

I see on the SAR-APRS yahoogroup there is talk of SAR trackers using a path
of WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2,SAR7-7 so that they get handled OK by the normal digis and
if they are heard by a SAR digi it uses preemptive digipeating on the SAR7-7
path, ignoring the WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2 section of the path.

The 'SAR digis' are likely to be Tracker2 devices used as trackers and digis
simultaneously, carried by other SAR teams, or special digis used only for
SAR purposes.

I'm curious to know how to set up Digi_ned on my laptop to do preemptive
SARn-N digipeating.

73, David ZL3AI.


      
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On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:37:23 -0000, pa3gwh wrote:

>
>The problem is in the digipeater location line, it says 00020.69E,
>in my Digined.ini as well as my digibcon.ini, I have
>
>digi_pos: 5204.62N 00420.69E
>
>=5204.62N/00420.69E_PHG6220/DIGI_NED: LINUX for information send
>message to PA3GWH-2
>
>When I look at the maps, my location is spot on, BUT DX beacons are
>wrong... PI1FLD is about 67 KM away from me, my DX beacon claims it to
>be 31 KM.
>
>Am I missing something?


What version are you using? From:

http://www.homepages.hetnet.nl/~pe1dnn/Changes.txt

06-05-2007 version 0.3.9
- With the new GCC 4.x compiler a bug in extracting the location surfaced
   that was not noticable with older compilers. I have not seen the problem
   with DOS or Cygwin either, but is is definately a bug. This was found
   by Josh, AB9FT. Thanks Josh for reporting it!


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--- In digined@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Shorney" <jshorney@...> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:37:23 -0000, pa3gwh wrote:

You beat me to this one Jim.
I did a search through the messages and missed that one,
I just read it before I saw your answer. I'll check the version, but
I guess it's an old version HI

Thanks Jim

Richard PA3GWH
>
> >
> >The problem is in the digipeater location line, it says 00020.69E,
> >in my Digined.ini as well as my digibcon.ini, I have
> >
> >digi_pos: 5204.62N 00420.69E
> >
> >=5204.62N/00420.69E_PHG6220/DIGI_NED: LINUX for information send
> >message to PA3GWH-2
> >
> >When I look at the maps, my location is spot on, BUT DX beacons are
> >wrong... PI1FLD is about 67 KM away from me, my DX beacon claims it to
> >be 31 KM.
> >
> >Am I missing something?
>
>
> What version are you using? From:
>
> http://www.homepages.hetnet.nl/~pe1dnn/Changes.txt
>
> 06-05-2007 version 0.3.9
> - With the new GCC 4.x compiler a bug in extracting the location
surfaced
>   that was not noticable with older compilers. I have not seen the
problem
>   with DOS or Cygwin either, but is is definately a bug. This was found
>   by Josh, AB9FT. Thanks Josh for reporting it!
>
>
> --
> Jim Shorney      -->.<--Put complaints in this box
> jshorney (at) inebraska.com
> Ham Radio NU0C
> Lincoln, NE, USA
> EN10ps
> http://incolor.inetnebr.com/jshorney/
>

--- In digined@yahoogroups.com, "pa3gwh" <pa3gwh@...> wrote:

Yes, that was it, 0.3.9 fixes the problem.

Thanks for your reply Jim!!


Richard

> > What version are you using? From:
> >
> > http://www.homepages.hetnet.nl/~pe1dnn/Changes.txt
> >
> > 06-05-2007 version 0.3.9
> > - With the new GCC 4.x compiler a bug in extracting the location
> surfaced
> >   that was not noticable with older compilers. I have not seen the
> problem
> >   with DOS or Cygwin either, but is is definately a bug. This was
found
> >   by Josh, AB9FT. Thanks Josh for reporting it!
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jim Shorney      -->.<--Put complaints in this box
> > jshorney (at) inebraska.com
> > Ham Radio NU0C
> > Lincoln, NE, USA
> > EN10ps
> > http://incolor.inetnebr.com/jshorney/
> >
>

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:14:52 -0000, pa3gwh wrote:

>
>Yes, that was it, 0.3.9 fixes the problem.
>
>Thanks for your reply Jim!!

Glad I was able to help, Richard.


73

-Jim

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On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:28:32 -0800 (PST), David Fraser wrote:

>I see on the SAR-APRS yahoogroup there is talk of SAR trackers using a path
>of WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2,SAR7-7 so that they get handled OK by the normal digis and
>if they are heard by a SAR digi it uses preemptive digipeating on the SAR7-7
>path, ignoring the WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2 section of the path.
>
>I'm curious to know how to set up Digi_ned on my laptop to do preemptive
>SARn-N digipeating.

You need to create a set of rules in digi_ned.ini for SARn-N. The sample
rules for SSn-N digipeating may be a good place to start.



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Hi again,

my newly compiled digi_ned 0.3.9 has a WX symbol on my Xastir map, I
can't seem to find where I can change the symbol that is transmitted.
0.3.8. used to be a D(igi) symbol, but I got that version as a
precompiled RPM, could this be hardcoded somewhere?

73 de Richard PA3GWH

--- In digined@yahoogroups.com, "pa3gwh" <pa3gwh@...> wrote:
>
> Hi again,

Never mind my last post, while struggling with the digi_pos problem
(see previous post) I changed the D between lat and long in
digibcon.ini to a /
Changed it back to a D and have the old symbol
back.

Sorry for the bandwidth ;-)

Richard PA3GWH

>
> my newly compiled digi_ned 0.3.9 has a WX symbol on my Xastir map, I
> can't seem to find where I can change the symbol that is transmitted.
> 0.3.8. used to be a D(igi) symbol, but I got that version as a
> precompiled RPM, could this be hardcoded somewhere?
>
> 73 de Richard PA3GWH
>

Hallo,

A lot of APRS pages link to my homepage for the DIGI_NED files, the
PocketAPRS maps of Europe or some THD7 stuff. There always have been 2
addresses to reach the homepages hosted by my povider, via
http://www.homepages.hetnet.nl and via http://home.hetnet.nl.

It looks my provider dropped the first as of February 28 2009, since
that day you get a 404 message instead of the page and I see that all
traffic has vanished.

Please update your links to my page if you want to make it work again,
the new adres is:

http://home.hetnet.nl/~pe1dnn

The portal at http://www.qsl.net/digi_ned/ (pointing to
http://pe1mew.nl/digi_ned/) can still be reached (but also needs to be
updated).

I don't know if my provider will re-enable
http://www.homepages.hetnet.nl or that it is permanently terminated.

Sorry for the inconvenience

Kind regards,

Henk - PE1DNN.

Hallo,

A lot of APRS pages link to my homepage for the DIGI_NED files, the
PocketAPRS maps of Europe or some THD7 stuff. There always have been 2
addresses to reach the homepages hosted by my povider, via
http://www.homepages.hetnet.nl and via http://home.hetnet.nl.

It looks my provider dropped the first as of February 28 2009, since
that day you get a 404 message instead of the page and I see that all
traffic has vanished.

Please update your links to my page if you want to make it work again,
the new adres is:

http://home.hetnet.nl/~pe1dnn

The portal at http://www.qsl.net/digi_ned/ (pointing to
http://pe1mew.nl/digi_ned/) can still be reached (but also needs to be
updated).

I don't know if my provider will re-enable
http://www.homepages.hetnet.nl or that it is permanently terminated.

Sorry for the inconvenience

Kind regards,

Henk - PE1DNN.

Hi All,

I have just updated the DIGI_NED website at
http://pe1mew.nl/digi_ned/. All the links have been altered and are
working again.

Have fun.

Cu, Remko.


--- In digined@yahoogroups.com, "hegr" <henk.de.groot@...> wrote:
>
> Hallo,
>

> The portal at http://www.qsl.net/digi_ned/ (pointing to
> http://pe1mew.nl/digi_ned/) can still be reached (but also needs to be
> updated).
>

Hello to the group,
I've had a digi on the air her in Seattle for a few years using a
Kantronics KPC 3+, and I would like to use a pc based system for a new
fill-in digi. I have looked through the archives on this group trying
to find help for a problem I am having. I'm an RF guy, not a computer
wiz, so forgive me if my question is out of line. I have downloaded
the "Digiflop" program, and when I run it to create the floppy to run
the program, it doesn't. I have tried it on my 286, on a Pentium and on
my laptop (Win XP). Can some one point me in the right direction? I
formatted the floppy as instructed in the text file. (format a: /U) I
would like to run this on my otherwise unused 286. I've got all the RF
stuff together (the easy part..for me anyway) I'm just stuck with the
software part.
Thanks for letting me join this group, and I hope I can help and be
helped too.
73, Tom N7OEP

Hello to the group,
I've had a digi on the air her in Seattle for a few years using a
Kantronics KPC 3+, and I would like to use a pc based system for a new
fill-in digi. I have looked through the archives on this group trying
to find help for a problem I am having. I'm an RF guy, not a computer
wiz, so forgive me if my question is out of line. I have downloaded
the "Digiflop" program, and when I run it to create the floppy to run
the program, it doesn't. I have tried it on my 286, on a Pentium and on
my laptop (Win XP). Can some one point me in the right direction? I
formatted the floppy as instructed in the text file. (format a: /U) I
would like to run this on my otherwise unused 286. I've got all the RF
stuff together (the easy part..for me anyway) I'm just stuck with the
software part.
Thanks for letting me join this group, and I hope I can help and be
helped too.
73, Tom N7OEP

Hi Tom..

I presume you went here...

http://home.hetnet.nl/~pe1dnn/#DIGI_NED

And got this...

The "DIGI_NED floppy 1.3 (0.3.5) self-extracting boot-disk image [400
kB]"

That will download Digiflop.zip.

You then need to extract the contents of that file using winzip or
similar, sounds like you did, as you say something about the
instructions that you'd have read from the included text file.

I put the contents of that zip file in a folder/directory of their own,
and then run Digiflop.exe from a command line (Start, All programs,
Accessories, Command line) at that location, with as you say a formatted
disk in A:, and you should get a bootable disk.

When you start a command line window in XP or 2k, you get what looks
like a DOS screen.   Most of the usual DOS commands work OK, so in my
case I extracted the contents of Digiflop.zip to C:\tmp\dned\

I've just tried it here, and even with Windows XP, and a USB Floppy
drive, running the extracted .exe did create a bootable floppy disk just
fine, just that I can't actualy boot from it at the moment, as this PC
does not support booting from USB drives.

Anyway, in the "Command line" window...

I entered the command C:\

Then CD \tmp\dned

I then did a DIR to make sure I was where I expected to be, then just
ran digiflop...

It asked me what drive to recreate the image to, I entered A   And it
just did it!


I did all that on a Windows XP laptop, and a with USB Floppy drive,
running the extracted .exe as above does appear to have created a
bootable floppy disk just fine.  At least it appears to have, it looks
OK with a DIR, but as above, I can't actualy boot it to be 100% sure,
but I have created Digined boot disks this way in the past, and they all
worked OK.


Perhaps you could give us some more details about the PC you were using,
and what version of DOS or Windows you were using, plus any messages
(error or otherwise) you got while trying all that.


Cheers.

Dave G0WBX.
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