Planning Committee JNOS Packet System
Our system is 4 hub sites running Slackware 11 Linux with 19+ sites running Windows platform. All sites are running JNOS 2.0 packet BBS software. We currently have full interconnectivity along with internet email to and from all sites. All of this is accomplished via RF with the need for Internet at one site only. We are setting up internet as many sites as we can. This is a backup for the primary location. This way, when the message needs to get through, it does. We believe that this system is like no other in EMCOMM. Our stations are ready for operation at a moments notice. Since all of the locations for operators are running the same software and mail program, training is accomplished easily. The HAM operator is completely shielded from the Linux and JNOS operating systems. If the operator can use Outlook, he can use our mail program. To send messages to other area hospitals, you select the site and type your message. If you want to send an email to the internet and the hospitals internet is down, JNOS will send the mail to a site that the internet is operational without operator intervention. How are we accomplishing all of this? Continue into
the site and we will show you. We have been working on our system for
a few years. The RF part was the first to happen. No problem here, just
packet. Then came the mail. We wanted a mail
program that would be GUI based (i.e. Outlook) and interface with JNOS.
Luke Banister (AD4MG) wrote the JNOS mailer program and after long hard
work we had a windows based JNOS email program. The next hurdle was
the internet. Enter JNOS 2.0 and Maiko Langelaar.
This program with Linux has made interface to the internet easy. Did
I say easy, well at least easier. The problem
is the lack of documentation. We have one person doing one thing and
one doing something else. What we needed was a way to do what we wanted
to do. Send Internet email from our network. Then came
the headache of AMPR.ORG. We toyed with changing that. Connectivity
with other packet systems would be crippled. AMPR.ORG in Want to test drive logging into a station and take a look around. Download "PUTTY" or you can telnet into my station at the link listed below. PUTTY is an excelent telnet client and offers a whole host of features over Hyperterminal or the telnet built into windows. After you get PUTTY follow the link "ki4bwj.dyndns.org" and make sire your port is set to TELNET (22) and not SSH. If you are using Linux no need to get putty, just click link below and you will be automatically connected to my station. When logging into a JNOS station such as mine use your callsign for the username and your given name for the password. You can then send the sysop a message to allow more access to the station.
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Configuration Files
Links to more information
Log into my station at ki4bwj.ampr.org
Jnos 2.0 Website with More Info
AD4MG's Mailer Instructions (PDF) UPDATED!!
Packet & Voice Procudure Handout (PDF) UPDATED!!
Putty download (.EXE file for Windows)
