WL2K over BBHN

I routinely use Winlink over Broadband-Hamnet ( http://www.bbhn.org ) when sending email through the system.

THE SETUP:
On my personal workstation, I use Eudora as my email client (with emails dating back to 1994, I like to keep all my email in one place).
Also on the same PC, I have Paclink installed.

Out in the workshop, where i have my repeater and tower with the Diamond X50 atop, diplexed between the 444.625 repeater and the packet radio (an older Kenwood 7950), set to 145.730. There is a micro PC attached to the Kenwood which is running AGW Packet Engine Pro, its own Paclink (for checking locally from that PC), RMS Packet, and AGW Monitor (to be able to see via remote if something in use). To configure that PC from the house, I use RealVNC.

To get a connection between the house (aka shack) and the workshop, I have a BBHN network running older Linksys WRT54G/GL/GS on 2412Mhz (wifi ch 1).
The BBHN network is tied to my house LAN, so I can be on any PC in the house and get on the mesh. Its about a 10Mb connection, plenty for what I need.

OPERATION:
I craft an email in Eudora, which has a special profile setup to TX/RX to Paclink on the same PC (localhost).
Once done, I hit SEND, and the email transfers to Paclink.
In Paclink on my PC, I then hit CONNECT TO and select the special channel "Backatcha", which is configured to send out AS K5KTF via the W3MRC (3M radio club) digipeater AUSRLY-1, BACK to the same radio/RMS Packet station K5KTF-10.

Paclink on my workstation talks to the AGW PE on the packet PC via the BBHN link via 2.4GHz.
Once the digi bounces it back to the same radio it was sent from (since the radio cant talk to itself, you need the store-and-forward of a digi), RMS Packet K5KTF-10 then calls to the internet, which is again via the BBHN network, through a special BBHN node I setup as an internet gateway on my LAN, then through my main router, and finally out through the cablemodem.

I call this RGWL2K, or Rube Goldberg Winlink :-)
He would be proud if he were alive today.

Now that I have Winmor installed on my workstation, connected to the FT-897, I now need to figure out how I can tie the K5KTF-10 out in the shop back to the house and the 897 to be able to do VHF-HF relaying. I think I need to install RMS Relay..... But on which machine ? :-)
Ill post more as I get it working.

73 and Happy Meshing and Winlinking
KTF

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