[Skimmertalk] Non-internet access to the RBN

[Matt Smith]

Thank you for the responses. Aside from the software integration component I wish to keep this an amateur radio-only solution so sat phone is cheating! I’ll get the telnet parsing worked out first then re-read part 97 to understand what I’m allowed to do telecommand, auxiliary, beacon-wise. Whatever the exact solution I’ll have some computer-connected radio at home to watch for my spots and transmit them back out so I can receive at my remote location.

Thanks again for the input. I’ll report back when I have proof of concept worked out.

73, Matt, AF7TI

> On Aug 29, 2016, at 1:55 PM, Bob Wilson, N6TV <n6tv at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> See https://shop.outfittersatellite.com/rentals.htm <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 <mailto: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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