05-12-18 20:30 Angela Morley wrote to All about BBS over Ham Radio
Howdy! Angela (and Paul),

 AM> {at}MSGID: 
 AM> I'm very interested in ham radio, bbs, and emergency communications.
 AM> I'm wondering if I can merge these topics together -- is it possible to
 AM> run a BBS server over amateur radio frequencies? How would you set it
 AM> up? Would you need to configure a duplex system, or would a simplex
 AM> AX.25 system work? Are there any examples of this working already?

In the 1970's some Hams ran BBS's on 2 Meters but they wasn't connected
to the outside world as the Dial-Up BBS's ( and now the Internet) are.

In my area those BBS's were ran on APPLE ][, Atari 400, Radio Shack TRS-80
and Commodore 64 PCs.

The Packet Radio BBS I could access was on 2 Meters and 20 Meters, but
again it was not connected to the Outside World (Dial-Up or Internet).

I used a Commodore 64 with a 555 I.C. circuit as an audio frequency shift
keyer and a RTTY Modem circuit I found in Popular Electronics magazine
to connect to the 2 Meter BBS's.

For 2 Meter Packet I used the Digicom II software on my Commodore 64 with
a homebrew Digicom Modem connected to the Cassette Interface on the back
of the Commodore 64 PC.

73 de Ed W9ODR    .      .


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