Welcome to

"Tucson's Internet to Amprnet Gateway"

Est. Jan. 1995

This is the Web (www) information page for the HAMGATE that serves Southern Arizona. Located at the KVOA TV-4 studios in Tucson Arizona. This gateway was established by Bob Cash, N8IMO and is now operated by Mike Bucciarelli, N7CK.

The purpose of this machine is to provide a link between the Southern Arizona's Packet Radio service and the Internet. This gateway has two radio ports of which Amateur (HAM) Radio Operators can link directly from the radio network to the Internet. Another primary use for this gateway is to provide a "wormhole" jump for routing of ham related mail via the Internet. Hams can usually reach this gateway from two sources. One is via Packet Radio on 145.050 MHz or 223.560 MHz (1200baud) in the Tucson area, or with TELNET from the Internet.

kv4oa.ampr.org is the amateur IP domain name.
The above address is reachable via either the Internet or Packet Radio. The callsign of KV4OA with the NETROM alias of TUCIP is used on the packet radio ports of 145.050 and 223.56 MHz.

There is also an APRS Igate server (aprsdTUS) running on the same site which transmits locally received APRS packets on 144.39 MHz to aprs network.

The picture to the left shows the tower where the Hamgate's two meter antenna hangs at the 75' level. The picture to the right shows the rack containing the Pentium-150 computer, radios, and TNCs.
 

Special thanks to: Glenn Griffith WB7TLS, Jeff Seligman WA2VNT, Bob Nielsen, N7XY,
Chuck Michels KB7RFI and John Bryson N7DME for their support and donations.

TOWERHAMGATE Image of building outside
Image of Hamgate and 146.82 Repeater

 

To have full access to the radio ports
you must be a valid Ham Radio Operator.
If you have any questions, please contact the the sysop:
Mike Bucciarelli, N7CK: n7ck@arrl.net

[Linux] [Debian Linux]
This system runs JNOS software on the Debian Linux operating system.

For more information contact Mike Bucciarelli at n7ck@arrl.net