In the effort to conserve precious battery backup for the system, after testing BPQ on Linux, I’ve now migrated MSTLCO & STLBBS over to a Raspberry Pi 2. This also makes it incredibly portable and lightweight should the need to relocate the BBS in an emergency arise. Please let me know if you have any […]
WASHMO Node will be available March 28th!
Paul Chambers/N0BBD, Franklin County EC, approached me after attending the March 9th St. Louis Metro ARES meeting where I gave a presentation talking about the MSTLCO node and STLBBS. Franklin County has been an up and coming active group on the BBS and is very much interested in renewing packet operations in their area. Paul […]
N0MTH Migration to Linux
I decided to migrate the previous BPQ32 installation on Windows 7 over to LINBPQ running on Ubuntu 14.04LTS mainly for stability and security. The base hardware has changed a bit as well. The N0MTH node on 145.050MHz is running on the following: Raspberry Pi 2 – Quad-Core 900MHz ARMv7 1GB Memory 64GB microSD Keyspan 19-HS […]
N0ARS Migration to Linux
I decided to migrate the previous BPQ32 installation on Windows 7 over to LINBPQ running on Ubuntu 14.04LTS mainly for stability and security. The base hardware has changed a bit as well. The N0ARS node on 145.070MHz is running on the following: AMD Athlon 2.07GHz machine 16GB Memory Mirrored 1TB hard drives The EMCOMM RMS […]
Node Software Updated
The software for the node and BBS has been updated. If you’re interested, the change logs can be found here: BPQ32 Node BPQ32 Mail If you experience any new issues that appear to be related to the upgrade, please let me know via the BBS or Winlink.