Mark Phillips wrote:
> May I be permited to speak?
>
> As a relative newcomer to APRS here in Manahattan, I can see that it has
> its place in the order of ham radio activities.
>
> There is just one thing that bothers me though; when is all the fighting
> going to stop and when will someone do something usefull with it?
>
I think the key word in your question is 'useful'. What useful things can
you do by listening to and sending beacons without fancy hardware? I don't
know, but it's not hard to do... If you were to create a perl app called
beacon_net or some such thing and run it like this....
listen -a -p ax0 | beacon_net &
Then everything heard on your ax0 interface would go to the beacon_net app
on STDIN.
#!/usr/bin/perl
#listen -a -p ax0 | beacon_net &
while (1){
$in = <STDIN>;
# If I hear something like KF6EPD-1->ID on ax0
if ($in =~ m/KF6EPD(.*)->ID/i){
# read the next line and see if the word 'ko6ri' is on that line
if (<STDIN> =~ m/ko6ri/i){
# If it is, send a beacon
system ("beacon -c KO6RI -d ID -s ax0 \"Talking about me again? ;-)\"");
}
}
# listen for something else and beacon if I hear it.
if ($in =~ m/KO6RI(.*)->MSG/i){
system ("beacon -c KO6RI -d ID -s ax0 \"That wasn't my beacon\"");
}
}
You could get real fancy, but I don't know how useful it could be.... How
about listening to someone else's WX info, change it just a little, wait two
minutes and send it out like you had a WX station. ;-)
--
Later...
Bob
http://gw.ko6ri.ampr.org/bbs
