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Steve Stroh N8GNJ
Feb 01, 2025
In Feature requests
This article - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/30/forgotten-internet-giving-or-getting-the-finger/ reminded me how much fun this old feature of the xNOS TCP/IP packages for Amateur Radio was back in the day. As the article describes, you'd compose a (used to be in the RTTY days called a brag tape) brief message about you, your Amateur Radio activities, your station, etc. It was a lot of fun to check out the "new user" when they would come on the air. The big difference from the canned messages is that you could request this file, and it was intended to be for public consumption. And you could have multiple finger files. We had a convention with multiple files like <callsign> and "station" and a few others I've forgotten now. Thus finger n8gnj would display my finger file with the ilename n8gnj (I forget the suffix) finger station would display the finger file with the filename station. Certainly not a critical feature, but I would enjoy having that available. Perhaps name it something more au courant like "retrieve info file". Or maybe "brag tape" as homage to the RTTY days.
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Steve Stroh N8GNJ
Oct 21, 2023
In Feature requests
I browsed around looking for this feature and the closest I found was VarAC Frequency Scheduler. I'm imagining using a local FM repeater for exchanging VarAC Vmails and bulletins, but only doing so in the early morning hours such as between 00:00 and 05:00 when the repeater isn't in use by voice users. (And, yes, I will be doing this with the knowledge of the group that owns the repeater). Does the VarAC Frequency Scheduler accommodate this usage? To be clear, I don't want VarAC to attempt to send messages at any time except the acceptable window of 00:00 - 05:00.
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