Comment by 🚀 stack
Re: "🖋️ Why I still write on the Small Web in 2026"
Being where most people are is something I avoid like the plague. Also, helps me avoid the plague.
Jan 28 · 3 months ago
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did you try (and is it possible) to use ax.25 with your baofeng radios?
I might actually be mortified if someone read what I wrote. But it's nice to be able to publish out into the world, somewhere were the awful incentives of social media won't care enough about it enough to make it go viral for bad reasons. So I can basically count on it only being read by people with normal human reasons. And while people can be awful, their individual potential for malice seems a lot lower than algorithms written by people trying to turn a profit.
🚀 SavaRocks [OP] · Jan 29 at 06:53:
@norayr I haven't tried but I heard it works with a Baofeng UV-5R
👻 darkghost · Jan 29 at 12:31:
Happy to start a thread on this as I have done it if you're interested.
What is ax.25?
🚀 SavaRocks [OP] · Jan 29 at 19:56:
@stack wikipedia to the rescue 😀 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AX.25
🚀 SavaRocks [OP] · Jan 29 at 19:57:
@darkghost a thread, a post ... it doesn't matter
Thank you, I was away from the web, never use the phone browser if i can help it.
I am very curious about the practical aspects. What equipment do you use to connect and what baud rates? How do you negotiate the protocol/rate?
👻 darkghost · Jan 29 at 21:56:
In the old days you'd use a TNC, terminal node controller connected to a radio. Nowadays a radio and soundcard are sufficient. Protocol is predetermined by what you're operating in (packet, BBS, Winlink, APRS) and BAUD is usually determined by what frequency you operate in. 300 for HF, 1200 for VHF, 9600 for UHF.
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