Not Real Radio EnjoyersI finally started working on a gopher server. I'm not sure if I'm motivated enough to DDNS it to the outside world yet.
This relates to not real radio because my ultimate goal is to have a gopher server accessible through a packet connection on HF.
Scott VE3QBZ@W4NRR This is a goal of mine too! Great stuff.
Adam@W4NRR I've been wanting to do that for years.
I have a gopherhole, but I haven't figured out how to connect it over packet radio. I'll be looking forward to seeing your progress.
@me @W4NRR the simplest approach would be to host a gopher client that is line oriented (not screen oriented; ie. It doesn't use curses or anything similar to draw entire screen layouts), accessible via telnet - then you add a connection to that client as a command on a BPQ node, and it in turn connects to your gopher server.
@scott @me that's a great suggestion. I got this suggestion from a similar post I made on the WFD account:
Brad Brown Jr (@[email protected])
@[email protected] That would be neat! And going on the theme of "RF first," I have a Gopher browser running on our BPQ packet radio node and would totally add WFD as a bookmark! If you're interested in how: https://github.com/bradbrownjr/bpq-apps/blob/main/apps/gopher.py
dark_hash@[email protected] nice! regarding the packet connection on HF, I implemented Gopher over Reticulum (which can use HF radio as a transport). Tested it only with LoRa for now, but that works wonderfully! :)