Subj : Wednesday Ham Radio Nets
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Jimmy Anderson
Date : Sun Apr 28 2019 08:04:00

-=> DARYL STOUT wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

 JA>Packet Radio? Not familiar... Off to Google... Be back before you
 JA>even realize I'm gone! :-)

 DS>   Packet is NOT what you do to a TNC (terminal node controller, a modem
 DS> for ham radio, for APRS and packet) when you put it in a box, and take
 DS> it to a hamfest flea market to sell it. <G>

hi hi

 JA>Ah - so you hook your computer up to a radio - if that's what I
 JA>think it is, there was some interest in that locally a couple of
 JA>years ago, but I never got involved. One guy was making some
 JA>home made cables to plug into 'beofang' type setups and you could
 JA>connect that to your sound card/ports in your computer.

 DS>   MFJ made special cables from the TNC to your radio. You could
 DS> purchase the RS232 cable from a DB25 to a DB9 connector for the serial
 DS> port.

 JA>Again, never got into it myself, but interesting.

 DS>   There's a digital net every Monday night. Email me at wx4qz@arrl.net,
 DS> and I'll send you the information PDF file on it. I just use the
 DS> Outpost client for email...I get data from the other topics from other
 DS> sources. Plus, Outpost tends to lock up if there's a lot of messages to
 DS> come down the pipe.

I don't have the stuff to join in, but thanks anyway!





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