[Skimmertalk] Non-internet access to the RBN

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

See https://shop.outfittersatellite.com/rentals.htm for one way to get
remote Internet access.  TELNET is good enough to check your spots at 2400
baud.

73,
Bob, N6TV

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 5:10 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr at contesting.com>
wrote:

> Hi Matt - I'm copying the rest of the RBN teamso they can add comments if
> they wish, but I doubt this is practical. The biggest hurdle would be the
> need for a network of receivers positioned to hear the CW queries you
> propose, each with Internet connections to the server, as well as the
> ability to transmit the results of the queries automatically.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> On 8/28/2016 9:48 PM, Matt Smith - AF7TI wrote:
>
>> Hi RBN:
>>
>> Curious to know if anyone's worked out possible designs for accessing the
>> RBN
>> without internet access. I enjoy operating portable primarily for
>> probation studies
>> with my radio in repeat/Beacon mode and often wind up some place in the
>> wilderness without internet access. Yes I can call CQ and talk to people
>> but I'd love
>> to have the ability to see my spots even when I don't have internet
>> access. Out of
>> band access to the RBN data would be fantastic for my use case.
>>   One possibility I was thinking about today is some sort of CW API
>> gateway that
>> would take a callsign and other parameters as an argument, do a DB
>> lookup, and
>> respond back in CW to the caller. So if I found myself wanting to send
>> out my
>> callsign and check all of my spots without internet access I could tune
>> in some
>> (regional) frequency (range), send some CW string including my callsign
>> and other
>> required parameters, the CW gateway listening on this frequency (range)
>> would
>> take the parameters, query the DB and respond back to the calling
>> frequency with
>> the query results in CW.
>>
>> Thanks for the Reverse Beacon Network. I have tons of fun and learning
>> using it
>> and hope to contribute to it in some useful way.
>>
>> 73,
>> Matt
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