Laramie Area Packet Info

My Packet Info KC7ZRU APRS Stations can be found at 144.390Mhz APRS is my current focus in the packet arena

Getting Started in 'traditional' packet ops

The Packet Radio Training Course

Visit Tucson Amateur Packet Radio to learn about Packet Radio

Don't miss their file archieves either!

Here's a great place to start your adventure Packet User's Notebook

Another Great packet site PacektRadio.Com

Visit KK7CN's web site for some info on the SE Wyoming Packet System

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N7MMC's MSYS BBS in Laramie After many, many years of service and opeation, N7MMC's MSYS Packet BBS in Laramie was shut down for good on 1 Nov 99 Tom (N7MMC), sites lack of interest in the local Amateur comunity as evidenced by fewer and fewer logins coupled with some equipment failures. It would have cost several hundreds of dollars to get the system back online. With the lack of activity, he figured it just wasn't worth it anymore N7MMC's BBS station was a focal point for traffic forwarding to many parts of the US. His station was even mentioned in an example of R: lines in the Kantronics KPC3+ TNC manuals. Many thanks Tom for the many years of packet activity in the Laramie Valley!

Packet Software
WinPack

Visit The home of G4IDE's WinPack packet radio software

A full featured Windows Packet terminal G4IDE's site also includes LOTS of add-ons, HTML viewers and strippers, extras and more
AGWPE A full featured Windows 9x packet system that will use multiple TNCs or Sound Cards as 'TNCs' The AGWPE home page Bill Kearns has written a Setup Checklist to help get AGWPE working with a sound card and WinAPRS
PaKet Tony Lonsdale's PaKet DOS based - will run well in Windows (any flavor) - considered by many to be 'the best'
YAPP V2.0 DOS Based, runs on older 'legacy' PC's - will run on a single floppy (360K) system with room left over YAPP V2.0 (38KB) YAPP has screen capture, DOS Shell, scroll buffer, ASCII and Binary (YAPP) file transfer Supports only COM1 or COM2 with standard interupts ZIP Archive
MSYS Terminal V1.04 Included with the full MSYS package, here it is 'separate' Similar features to YAPP V2.0, but has wider COM port addressing, and better message handling DOS based, runs on 'legacy' PC's and small - fits on a 360K floppy with lots of room left One of the better choices if you're working an MSYS BBS Features include: YAPP support, ASCII file capture, ASCII file transmission, 800 line scroll back buffer, DOS Shell, Interrupt driven serial I/O with 16,000 byte input buffer, Support for serial ports at any address and Int 0-7, Reverse forward poll for messages, Forward to a BBS and more MSYS Terminal V1.04(39Kb) Self Extracting Archive

BBS Software
MSYS Considered by many to be one of the better BBS systems. MSYS Supports KA-Node, NETrom, HF packet, forwarding, YAPP and ASCII, etc.. - basicly, if you want to do it as a BBS, this'll do it - and probobly a lot more! All you need is the radio, a PC (will run on an XT class, AT or above suggested) and a TNC that runs in KISS mode You can get all you need at The Official MSYS Web Page These are all self extracting archives. I suggest you print out the documentation (archived in MOPT118.EXE) - it's extensive and VERY well worth reading about a half dozen times BEFORE you start setting up This is one program where "RTFM is NOT a four letter word"! ! * ! * ! * Read The Manual * ! * ! * !
MSYSB A stripped down version of MSYS that supports only the BBS functions. There is no network NODe, no AMTOR, no TCP/IP in this version. You can still forward using external network nodes, but the BBS is NOT a netrom network node! The KANODe is still there. All of the BBS functions remain, along with modem support. You can get MSYSB as well at The Official MSYS Web Page as well

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