FAST: Winlink Mail Server Gateway for 2 meters

[@KM6LYW]

I sensed a disturbance in the DigiPi force. Great work!

[@temporarilyoffline]

Hey Craig!

[@Siskiyous6]

I remember getting a computer with a 20 MB drive, splurged and added a second drive, 40 MB more. Power user baby!

[@temporarilyoffline]

Man you must have been wealthy!

[@douglasrice4753]

That would have been my Tandy TL1000 in the early 90s, with the option to upgrade to the 40MB HD. Oh how far we've come....

[@AaronBond007]

Great video Steve. And yeah, Craig and his DigiPi image are awesome. Highly recommended for any (especially portable) digital communications on VHF or HF... looking forward to your next one!

[@temporarilyoffline]

Thanks Aaron!

[@hawkeyeCH53E]

Great video steve. Looking forward to the VGC one coming up. Hey I see Craig in the comments. He's such an awesome dude.

[@temporarilyoffline]

Thanks! Craig is a pretty swell!

[@brickerhaus]

I really do like this. I wouldn't mind looking into the portable option, gonna have to go talk to some local people about setting that up. Awesome video. Craig really is doing a cool thing with the DigiPi. Wish it supported the waveshare eink displays.

[@temporarilyoffline]

eInk would be pretty slick.

[@brickerhaus]

@temporarilyoffline I wanna run a DigiPi on the same hardware as a Pwnagotchi with the PiSugar Battery Hat and the Waveshare eink display.

[@AndrewB416]

We had an IBM PC AT from way back in 1981 (before I was born!) and it had 2x 10MB hard drives in a chassis separate to the system board. $10k per hard drive. Good thing my father worked for IBM haha.

[@temporarilyoffline]

@@AndrewB416 yeah. The prices are crazy!

[@brandonporter4227]

Brilliant!

[@temporarilyoffline]

Thanks!

[@victorcharlie7491]

Set it and forget it, cool video, tnx Man!

[@temporarilyoffline]

Thanks for watching!

[@tomg6214]

Great video!!! I’ve been following the series. Would be interested to know how you connected the DigiPi to the 705?

[@temporarilyoffline]

Via the USB cable.

[@alanreader4815]

Did you have to Supply more Raspberries?.

[@temporarilyoffline]

I did.

[@SendLead]

Awesome video! I’d like to see a standalone gateway with no internet with that setup, possible?

[@temporarilyoffline]

Winlink is not designed to run without the internet by default. There is a single entry "peer to peer" setup that allows you to exchange messages with an active participant. By default its a "gateway" from ham radio to internet and back to allow email to flow in all directions as well as store/forward.

[@RatchetFWD]

What you’re looking for is linBPQ a port of bpq32 . A BBS with store and forward. Or like TO said P2P or post office if using winlink tool suite on windows.

[@BrianRomine-k9k]

Tandy TRS-80

[@temporarilyoffline]

Sweet!

[@youtubeaccount931]

Super cool

[@temporarilyoffline]

Thanks!

[@ghostmandka5498]

Prime Time!

[@temporarilyoffline]

@@ghostmandka5498 you got that right! Thanks!

[@hikingfish3]

What's the minimum RaspberryPI specs recommended? Pi3, 4 or 5? Pi Zero? Cheers!

[@temporarilyoffline]

Minimum would be a Zero 2W, but if you don't have any pi at all, start with the latest (5) so you can be in the game longer.

[@justinbrashear5124]

Have you done this with a cheaper 2m that the 705?

[@temporarilyoffline]

@@justinbrashear5124 yes, DigiPi makes it easy to do with any radio.

[@LarryTaylor-l5m]

I remember when RAM was $100/meg

[@temporarilyoffline]

@@LarryTaylor-l5m and now people give it to me by the box load

[@WolfQuantum]

Have to chuckle. My first "real" computer was a Franklin Ace 1000 (Apple IIe compatible) with a single 140K floppy and an amber monochrome monitor. Yeah, I am that old.

[@temporarilyoffline]

Man those were the days!