44net April 2021

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IP Ranges for Documentation
by Jason McCormick 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Is there an allocation for documentation similar to RFC 5737? I was going to upload some stuff to the GitLab server but I wanted to generalize it so people didn't just copy/paste deploy stuff with my IP allocations in it. I looked on the portal but couldn't find anything. If there isn't, I'd like to propose that two /24s get set aside for documentation out of 44.0.0.0/9 that don't seem ripe for future use such as 44.0.192.0/24 and 44.1.255.0/24. Jason

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ARDC is hiring: Administrative Coordinator, Communications & Community Manager
by Rosy Wolfe 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Hi 44net, We've got a couple new job postings. Administrative Coordinator: https://www.ampr.org/ardc-is-hiring-an-administrative-coordinator/ Communications & Community Manager: https://www.ampr.org/ardc-is-hiring-a-communications-community-manager/ Please share with folks you think would be good fits. Many thanks! 73, Rosy -- Rosy Wolfe - KJ7RYV Executive Director Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) ampr.org

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Re: [44net] 44Net Digest, Vol 10, Issue 45
by lleachii＠aol.com 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Clive, Can you verify your callsign, please. I"m having a serious issue looking it up. Since transit is kinda physical (and AMPR/ARDC/TaskForce/committees are working on something for the future), I'm not sure why your offer makes sense. Can you more clearly explain how others not located near your data center obtain benefit? 73, - Lynwood KB3VWG -----Original Message----- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 19:41:09 -0700 From: Clive Blackledge <clive(a)ansible.org> To: 44Net general discussion <44net(a)mailman.ampr.org> Subject: Re: [44net] DigitalOcean / Droplet Message-ID: <CAOqEX=gcXGmiKYOkNCueosi0=F-w2wtXzFQ29mNAiSo2K+hh6A(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi Angelo, Can you describe some of the issues or requirements that makes finding IP transit difficult? I can suggest quite a few options that have worked out for me, but it usually requires asking for exactly the right thing and little bit of luck of finding the right person. It is possible some of us here can start a joint venture and share some of the cost. Ideally we'd do it under the AMPRnet name, I guess it really can be under any corporate/LLC name. 73, -Clive KF6DFMA

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Trying to contact N0OTZ
by G1FEF 27 Apr '21

27 Apr '21

Hi All, If Rial, N0OTZ is seeing this, please can you email me privately. If anyone knows, or is in contact with N0OTZ, please could you pass this message on. Thanks, Chris - G1FEF

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Telnet login idle timer
by Gabriel Medinas 24 Apr '21

24 Apr '21

Hello friends, I have a problem with incoming connections to telnet port (23) in the login step that never put their credentials give a open tcp connection causing me to have a large sockets open. I have tried the mbox tdisc command which is not valid since the connection is still in the login stage without entering the mbox, consuming connection resources in the system. There will be some command to kill automatically the connections in the login stage by idle time (disc-timer) to delete this? JNOS 2.0m.4 (linux). Thanks, 73 de Gabriel YV5KXE YV AmprNet coord.

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Club talk on AMPRnet
by Mitchell Southgate 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

Hi, Not sure the best person to approach for this but I belong to OARC a online amateur radio community which is mostly based on discord. We are a UK wide community open to all amateurs. We try and have regular club talks and wonder if there is someone willing to do a talk on AMPRnet as about 15 of our members are interested in what AMPRnet is. I have tried to explain best to them about it but would love to find someone who could give a better talk to try and help give some guidance on it. Our talks are normally held on Zoom. A few members have asked questions but I feel if someone could give us a general talk it would help give some insight into what AMPRnet has to offer I am happy to chat more off the list. 73's 2E0EMO

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Amateur Radio Software Award - 2021
by KUN LIN 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

April 3rd, 2021 https://arsaward.com/ Announcing JS8Call as the winner of Amateur Radio Software Award ARSA committee is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2nd annual Amateur Radio Software Award to Jordan Sherer, KN4CRD, and his project, JS8Call. The award committee has considered numerous factors in choosing this year's winner, including the project's impact on furthering the interests of amateur radio, innovation, and community involvement. JS8Call is a full-fledged weak-signal digital communication application for amateur radio operators. In the spirit of open-source, Jordan extended the popular FT8 protocol instead of reinventing the wheel. During the 5 years of development, JS8Call has become a new tool for ARES function and cultivated a community of radio enthusiasts for digital communications. Jordan's work on JS8Call provides important innovation to advance the art of radio in the digital field. JS8Call is licensed under GPLv3 and can be freely downloaded at http://js8call.com. The ARSA committee is proud to present the 2021 Amateur Radio Software Award Certificate and an award grant of $300 to Jordan Sherer, the project owner and core contributor of the JS8Call application. We are looking forward to next year's Amateur Radio Software Award. Input and nominations for future awards are welcome. Be sure to visit our website https://arsaward.com for further information about the award. About the Award The Amateur Radio Software Award is an annual international award for the recognition of software projects that enhance amateur radio. The award aims to promote amateur radio software development which adheres to the same spirit as amateur radio itself: innovative, free, and open. Special Event Station We are operating the special event stations K2A, K2R, and K2S from Friday, August 27th through Sunday, September 5th, 2021 to promote innovative, free, and open amateur radio software. During the event, we will honor the 2021 award recipient. As part of the special event, we encourage people to submit nominations for the 2022 Amateur Radio Software Award. Award Committee Claus Niesen, AE0S (since 2020) Kun Lin, N7DMR (since 2020) Rich Gordon, K0EB (since 2021)

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New version 1.2.4c of Echolink proxy/relay software
by Rob PE1CHL 17 Apr '21

17 Apr '21

For those running an Echolink proxy/relay farm or interested in doing so: I have released a new version 1.2.4c of my Echolink proxy/relay software, which is now available on my website https://pe1chl.nl/ as https://pe1chl.nl/Softw/elproxy.tar.gz New in this version: - fixes in the relay protocol by K1RFD (Echolink) - changed the TCP queue management, now it is no longer required to tweak the TCPQueueHighWater setting in the config file (setting can be deleted) and the TCP send queue sizes in the system parameters (sysctl.conf) - rewritten the use of select() to the Linux epoll(7) feature, should be more efficient When you are running relays for Echolink, please update the software as it resolves some issues for mobile users that were reported to K1RFD. When running only proxies, the update is not that important unless you experience the TCP queue issue described in the README file of version 1.2.3c and could not completely eliminate it using TCPQueueHighWater. 73, Rob PE1CHL

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Git repository for AMPR stuff
by Marius Petrescu 11 Apr '21

11 Apr '21

Hi everyone, Since a lot of people do all kind of development work directed towards the ampr and the 44 network, wouldn't it make sense to have some kind of repository/version tracking for this work? Of course, there is Github, as a public place to do this, but wouldn't it be nice to have our own Git repository, which should be under ARDC control, where we could track our stuff, from code development and scripts, up to all the host and service lists? This could even be a topic for the grants committee... Costs are minimal, with only some effort towards the initial setup (Git is essentially free, with maybe a small payed support in setup from Atlassian if needed). Afterwards it is self-sustaining. 73s, Marius, YO2LOJ

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Encrypted links on 5.8ghz. (WPA)
by pete M 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

I dont know what is the status of this case but I am asking here if anyone had some factual information on this. As we are using the frequency that are into the ISM band, We are also using device that are type accepted for that band. Those device are used legally with encryption by normal lambda user. If we dont modify the device power and frequency would it be legal for ham to also encrypt the signal? I understand that if we would use a higher power, different channel I would understand that we are now out of the ISM band rules. Pierre VE2PF

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