05-12-18 20:30 Angela Morley wrote to All about BBS over Ham Radio   
   Howdy! Angela (and Paul),   
      
    AM> @MSGID: <5AF7AA58.1869.amtradio@capitolcityonline.net>   
    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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