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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sorry for the most-likely newbie questions, but I am unable to resolve these so far on my own, so I am trying the list.</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am a new user of the Spider S/W. I have setup a local, 2m RF based cluster that is just intended to be used by a local club of hams, and we specifically do not wish to get spots outside our area, so I am not intending to connect the cluster to any other nodes. My node is hosted on a Windows based system, running the AGW packet engine, and I actually have been able to get it up and running relatively easily, with the exception of two items. I was hoping to get some guidance on those items from someone on the list.</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1) I have noticed that is is currently not possible to have users enter WWV info. This was an intentional decision on the designer's part. I would like to figure out a way to get this info into the node. Since I am unconnected to other nodes, it would seem that I either need to discover the way to allow local users to enter this data (thru some mechanism implemented in a wwv.pl perl script in local_cmd, perhaps?), and/or figure out an automated way to fetch this data off the web and back feed it into the proper database in the Spider file system. Can anyone give me any guidance on either of these approaches, or any other salient advice on this issue?</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2) I would like to discover a mechanism that would allow the node to beacon onto the local 2m packet frequency that the SV2AGW packet engine has me running on, at least initially while the node is new on the frequency. The setup is currently using either a PK-232 or a MFJ-1270 TNC 2, running in KISS mode. Has anyone done this? Can it be done? Is it supported by the packet engine, spider software, or do I need to write something myself (I am a C/C++ programmer who has done both DOS and Windows based programming using Turbo C/C++ or C++ Builder products...)</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">One last issue. My home email account (which I am using to send this), will soon be changing, so I did not wish to subscribe to the list from this system. My work email is<U> </U></FONT><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mlewis@digitalglobe.com <<A HREF="mailto:mlewis@digitalglobe.com">mailto:mlewis@digitalglobe.com</A>></FONT></U><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">. If anyone has any input, and could send a copy of the reply also to that email address, it would be most appreciated.</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks to Dirk for a great program, and to everyone for reading!</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">73 es gud DX de KE0MF</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ML</FONT>
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