Willem AC0KQ heeft een grafische bpq-config programmaatje schreven. Hier onder de uitleg.
(bron http://www.prinmath.com/ham/bpqHOWTO.htm)
Tevens is er een Quickstart guide http://www.prinmath.com/ham/howto/quickstart/
Het perl script wat Willem AC0KQ heeft geschreven http://www.prinmath.com/ham/bpq-config
Willem A. Schreüder AC0KQ
The purpose of this HOWTO is to describe how to install BPQ on a Linux Single
Board Computer (SBC) such as the Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone Black.
BPQ is a very sophisticated NET/ROM compatible packet switch written by John
Wiseman G8BPQ. BPQ can be configured to be a sophisticated Packet BBS, a
WinLink2000 RMS gateway, an APRS iGate, or any combination of these.
One of the hurdles to setting up BPQ is that the configuration file can be
rather difficult to set up. To ease this, this HOWTO uses a program named
bpq-config which makes it easy to create the initial configuration.
While bpq-config is primarily intended to create the initial
configuration file which you can then modify, it is actually capable of creating
a fairly sophisticated configuration file using a menu-driven interface.
Much more detail about BPQ are provided at
G8BPQ Home Page
At this time bpq-config only supports the Raspberry Pi and Beagle Bone
Black with John Hansen’s TNC-Pi and TNC-Black. This is because these are fairly
predictable environments. However, with little modification bpq-config
can also be used with other systems.
If you have any corrections or comments about this HOWTO or bpq-config, please
email me. I get lots of junk mail, so
add BPQ to the subject line to get it by my spam filters.
Authorization
If you want to use BPQ as an RMS gateway to WinLink, you need to obtain authorization from the WinLink folks. See this link on how to do that.
To send APRS position reports to the APRS-IS via the APRS Tier 2 Network a
password is required. However, bpq-config contains a function to
generate that password for you, so no additional authorization is required.
Computer Hardware
The Raspberry Pi and Beaglebone Black are available from numerous sources. The
price for a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 is $35 from mail order vendors such as
MCM Electronics.
The Raspberry Pi B or B+ is sufficiently fast to run BPQ, so you can use that if
you happen to have one. The TNC-Pi works with all of these models.
The Raspberry Pi has the advantage of a very active user community, which makes
it the best supported device. The disadvantage of the Raspberry Pi is that it
has only one serial port, so if you want to use more than one TNC you need to
use the I2C bus to address the TNCs, which requires a bit more work.
The Beaglebone Black is has a street price around $50. It has the advantage of
a more mechanically stable mounting arrangement and four serial ports which
makes multiple TNC easy to mount and use.
The disadvantage of the Beagle Bone black is that it is not as well supported as
the Raspberry Pi so getting it configured is a bit more work.
TNC Hardware
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