For people who don't want the 'hassle' of installing some perl modules
via CPAN there are 2 possibilities:
* Run pskmail and fldigi from the pskmail_puppy live CD. It boots in 45
seconds
the second time if you save some files on your C drive after first use.
This will give you fldigi 2.09 and pskmail client version 0.6.
* This also works from a 256MB bootable USB drive. As it runs totally in RAM it
is
lightning fast.
* Run pskmail inside windows. This is as easy as unzipping a zip file in your
C drive and
installing 1 driver (KQEMU). Also a 1-click affair. You need at least 256 MB
Ram for this.
If you tell it to do so it will automatically saveyour config data and mail
afterwards (also to a
separate USB stick). Uses VESA only. 1024x768 is works fine in XP.
It is impossible for me to port it to window$, as the program uses a lot of
Linux native tools.
The APRS part (yes, pskmail is a full-fledged HF APRS messenger) has been done
for windows by
UT1HZM. The arq part is more difficult...
In EU I can use 4 servers at the moment from where I am. IS0GRB-3, PI4TUE,
DL9YCS, SM0RWO.
Depending on time of day. Most beacons are qsl'ed by 2 servers all the time.
Using 20 Watts from my RV
on a campsite in Spain. Last email session on 19:30 local with DL9YCS on 30
meters PSK250 with zero repeats.
Several servers are operated in the US and 1 in Australia. Best set up a server
yourself for initial testing...
http://pskmail.wikispaces.com
http://www.freelists.org/archives/pskmail/
http://www.pskmail.de
73,
Rein EA/PA0R/P
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Gesendet: 02.03.08 19:24:46
An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Betreff: [digitalradio] Some success with PSKmail
I recently revisited PSKmail as I had previously downloaded fldigi and
was thinking that I had that program working. I did the necessary unzip
and untar, although I could not get the regular GUI program to do it. It
indicated no directory to put it in and so I just used the terminal
program. I am using Kubutu, but tried to follow the detailed downloads
required for Ubuntu and ran into lots of problems with it not finding or
being able to do things with the rather large numbers of files, but kept
trying various ways from other Linux variants and somehow managed to get
everything installed.
As an aside, Linux developers have to figure out how to make this all a
part of the program or the OS or whatever. It is amazingly difficult and
convoluted to do all this stuff just to get one program to work.
Windows is so incredibly superior to this downside of Linux that it will
be (or is already) a non starter for most computer users. You can call
people dumb and all that, as some of the Linux zealots do on a rather
regular basis, but this is a huge stumbling block. And very retro in
today's advanced operating systems. Like my wife says, I just want it
to work.
I was able to eventually figure out how to get everything to work and
attempted connecting with several of the listed e-mail stations and did
connect to the 5 station once I got on the correct QRG. That was
impressive. I did not have anything connected up yet to an e-mail
program so that will require more configuration but I thought I might
just try and send just anything from the keyboard.
Ooops, I crashed X Windows. Then I recalled that some time back, this
was an on-going problem with my computer:( Does anyone else have this
problem with fldigi? It has something to do with entering any data in
the transmit window and X just goes into an immediate reboot. Or
perhaps a later version has this fixed?
Are any stations using PSKmail here in the U.S.? Can you tell us of your
experiences?
After using NBEMS at bit, am I right that the error correction ARQ is
the same or very close to the way that PSKmail does this? If so, why
can't this be ported over to MS OS? This would give us an additional
tool for emergencies as well as some practical e-mail capability that is
very narrow mode.
73,
Rick, KV9U
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