Digirig + Soundmodem+ Outpost Buffer

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I am using Digirig with Soundmodem to log onto a BBS and retrieve emails (ARES BBS using Outpost). If the email is very short, no problem. However, if it is more than a few lines long, it seems to time out. I can see about 1/2 of the email downloading then it stops and it never totally downloads.

I am thinking maybe there is a buffer size setting, but new to all of this. If anyone can offer suggestions, much appreciated.

Joe

2

Digirig is a soundcard and there is no issue to continuously send or receive audio with it. The timeout maybe on your transceiver or the remote station. For a test just try holding PTT without even Digirig connected. Do you get the timeout?

3

Thanks, but I now see where the data is coming across to the soundcard, so I guess it is working OK, but only half the message gets into Outpost, so it may be an outpost setting. There was some init commands that outpost suggested I put into a modem doing AWGPE, I put them in the soundmodem init file but seems to still be a problem.

4

I think the problem is, is that the command prompt that soundmodem sends back is not compatible with the BBS I am on. Is there a way to change the command prompt in sound modem?

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I may be wrong on this, but I would think that if any of the principal settings were off, you wouldn’t be able to exchange any emails, short or long.

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Good point but for some reason it downloads half the email then soundmodem sends a command and thats where outpost hangs

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Hi Joe, I am embarking on a similar use of Digirig with Outpost and want to ask a related question. What Outpost TNC did you select or create to get Outpost to treat VARA FM as an operable TNC? - Jeff AJ6LG

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That’s frustrating when a client can’t handle long messages.

I do not know Outpost or how to configure it.

I use EasyTerm written by UZ7HO, the author of soundmodem, to communicate with packet nodes and BBS systems. It is not a mail client, but it sends commands to the BBS to list, read, forward, delete, compose, and send mail/messages via packet BBS.

Maybe it can be a workaround for you.

73 Constrainted