[Announce] webconvers-2.0-final and webconvers-2.1-beta1

[Announce] webconvers-2.0-final and webconvers-2.1-beta1

[Robin Gilks]

Greetings

The latest and greatest version of the web to convers gateway is now
available from the download pages of the Thames Valley IP User Group at
http://www.tvipug.org

The next version beta is available from my web site under "Robin's pages".

This new version has a channel view which allows the user to simply see
what channels are occupied, click to move to a channel or click to leave.
Clicking on another users callsign allows a personal message to be sent
using pop-up window to easily talk across channels!! It can be checked out
at http://gilks.homelinux.org/webconvers/

As with version 2.0, this is optimised for the latest php 4.3 and above.

Enjoy...

-- 
Robin Gilks zl3rob/g8ecj
Internet: g8ecj@gilks.org    http://www.gilks.org

On line Callbook service

[Bill Vodall]

So...   what's available these days for setting up an
online callbook system to be access from RF (uronode, etc)?

Any  "telnet xxx <call>"  sites?

What about systems for downloading the raw data and running the
server locally?   I know JNOS has a couple options but I'm
looking for something at the Linux system level.

Thanks,
Bill - WA7NWP

Re: On line Callbook service

[Bob Nielsen]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 09:44:56PM -0700, Bill Vodall wrote:
> 
> So...   what's available these days for setting up an
> online callbook system to be access from RF (uronode, etc)?
> 
> Any  "telnet xxx <call>"  sites?
> 

Hi Bill,

I don't know of any which are quite that simple.  'telnet
callsign.ualr.edu 2000' or 'telnet wm7d.net 5000' will connect you to
interactive servers for the FCC database.  Either of these would be easy
to use as a custom mailbox command.  

In the DX Spider code, there are perl routines for retrieving callsign
information from WM7D, QRZ and DB0SDX (a DX callsign database) which
could probably be adapted to a single retrieval (QRZ requires
registration, I believe).

> What about systems for downloading the raw data and running the
> server locally?   I know JNOS has a couple options but I'm
> looking for something at the Linux system level.
> 

Xastir has an example of this, which could probably be adapted (the FCC
database is a BIG file!)

73,
Bob, N7XY

Re: On line Callbook service

[M Taylor]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:40:56AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > 
> > Any  "telnet xxx <call>"  sites?
> > 
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> I don't know of any which are quite that simple.  'telnet
> callsign.ualr.edu 2000' or 'telnet wm7d.net 5000' will connect you to
> interactive servers for the FCC database.  Either of these would be easy

Using HTTP servers may also be of interest with command line tools
such as wget, curl, lynx, elinks, Perl's LWP.

e.g. wget http://www.rac.ca/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rac/callbook?QueryText=ve3tix&QueryType=call&perpage=25
or whatever to retrive data from QRZ.com (or rac.ca/callbook).

Re: On line Callbook service

[Curt Mills]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Bill Vodall wrote:

> So...   what's available these days for setting up an
> online callbook system to be access from RF (uronode, etc)?
>
> Any  "telnet xxx <call>"  sites?
>
> What about systems for downloading the raw data and running the
> server locally?   I know JNOS has a couple options but I'm
> looking for something at the Linux system level.

Xastir will work for FCC/RAC lookups.  If you download/install the
appropriate geocoding files you can also have Xastir find the street
address on the map for you.

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