Howto setup a Winlink client? (pat)
Is there anyone else interested in helping me develop a howto for setting up a Winlink client? Supposedly winlink proper works well under wine, but using a close source program still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I found pat[1] which is written in GO. I would consider packaging it but I have NO idea how to package GO. For now I'm using upstreams provided binaries. I decided ham radio related howtos should be an extension of the Amateur radio sig on Fedora, so I setup the howto here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AmateurRadio/Howto/Pat Outside of this particular topic, it would be nice to come up with more howtos and link to them from the main wiki (probably through the howto part of the link). Thanks, Richard KF5OIM
On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 10:05 AM Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there anyone else interested in helping me develop a howto for setting up a Winlink client?
Count me in. I'm running pat with AX.25 and a Kenwood D710 TNC. Setup is fairly straightforward, but there are some tricks related to radio setup that aren't well documented, mostly on the AX.25 side. I'll dig up my notes and add them to the wiki,. I'm also interested in packaging pat. At best I could tell, go-lang versions are the trickiest part. The compiled binaries are static so the basic packaging should be straightforward. Adding niceties like running pat as a service, and maybe getting forms packaged (when the support is in place) would also be good. mike
On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 8:31 AM Michael Pittaro <mikeyp@lhrc.com> wrote:
Count me in. I'm running pat with AX.25 and a Kenwood D710 TNC. Setup is fairly straightforward, but there are some tricks related to radio setup that aren't well documented, mostly on the AX.25 side. I'll dig up my notes and add them to the wiki,.
Ok, good deal. I'm still cutting my teeth on all the moving parts. Today I learned that direwolf is really only useful for packet, which means only VHF/UHF for Winlink. For HF you need ARDOP as Winmor is no longer used. Unfortunately it doesn't compile. A whole lot of issues with, "multiple definition of..." Right now I'm trying brute force adding "static" to some of the definitions to get it to compile. Not sure yet if I've broken anything. I'm also interested in packaging pat. At best I could tell, go-lang
versions are the trickiest part. The compiled binaries are static so the basic packaging should be straightforward. Adding niceties like running pat as a service, and maybe getting forms packaged (when the support is in place) would also be good.
Ok, good deal! Thanks, Richard KF5OIM
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