Subj : AirChat with Baofeng UV-5R+ and PC
To   : All
From : Indrid Cold
Date : Fri Nov 04 2016 11:10:00

Hello, how are you guys - hoping well.
Yesterday I've managed with a friend of mine to finally setup an AirChat
station, using a laptop with Debian + rtxt Baofeng UV+5R+ and some custom
cable, by my end. The other guy was using the same Baofeng model +
subnotebook Aspire with Windows, and same type of cables.

Here's the link to the project, interesting for communicating in case of
calamities, disasters and other emergencies like government drop, Internet
shutdown, etc. - ex. Syria dissidents, quakes...

https://github.com/lulzlabs/AirChat

It uses PERL, and some other dependencies, but nothing of impossible to
configure, for each platform - as backend, it uses the famous FLDIGI and
obviously own soundcard in/out cabled to rxtx.

We managed to send messages, with the possibility to encrypt, inserting own
callsign, administer potential Twitter accounts and useful TOR network - give
it a try, it's a cheap way to experiment with packet radio.

Now I'm trying to setup one of my Raspberry-like boards to stable AirChat
station, to form with other friends a sort of mesh radio network between us.


 I N D R I D / C O L D 
First come smiles  /  Then come lies  /   Last is gunfire


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