Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 04:30:22 PST From: Ham-Digital Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Digital-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Digital@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Ham-Digital Digest V94 #17 To: Ham-Digital Ham-Digital Digest Sat, 29 Jan 94 Volume 94 : Issue 17 Today's Topics: Baycom comments please Call sign database w/ e-mail addresses ? KISS mode problems with Tiny 2 (DCD) packet and ARES SPLog - It Ain't Free!! Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Ham-Digital Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/ham-digital". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 28 Jan 94 17:46:37 GMT From: ogicse!news.tek.com!gvgpsa.gvg.tek.com!gold.gvg.tek.com!grovmac.gvg.tek.com!cleveland@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Baycom comments please To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu I'm sorry if this has been a recent thread - I've been away. Please send me any comment on the Baycom modules and software. I'm especially intrigued by the apparent simplicity of the Baycom but I'm certain that there are some pitfalls I should know about. Reply here or via E-mail. 73 Grover WT6P cleveland@gvg47.gvg.tek.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 14:09:26 MST From: darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!news.byu.edu!news@seismo.css.gov Subject: Call sign database w/ e-mail addresses ? To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu I was just wondering if there is a database out on Internet somewhere that can correlate call signs with an e-mail address? In other words, I think it would be incredibly useful to be able to access a database like the call sign servers which would also tell you the ham's e-mail address (if he/she has one). Might be tough to maintain, but it would sure make it easy to get in contact with someone having only their call sign. Just wondering. 73 de N7SHV ! Kris Nosack Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, U.S.A. kris_nosack@byu.edu >>>---> Be strange, but not a stranger! <---<<< ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jan 1994 12:26:33 GMT From: mustang.mst6.lanl.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!news.claremont.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu!csulb.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!bnr.co.uk!@nntp.ucsb.edu Subject: KISS mode problems with Tiny 2 (DCD) To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu In article <01H84DI3PIXKDRPZCG@tntech.edu> DEJ7265@tntech.edu (Daniel 'Eric' Johnson N4SCS) writes: >I have a problem with my PacComm Tiny 2 in KISS mode. The TNC seems to be >in FULL Duplex mode while in KISS mode. >... >Is this a problem already found? And if so has PacComm fixed this in later >versions of their EPROM ? My version information is... >Release P1.1.6D4 September 18, 1990 - 32K RAM Oh yes, it's a famous bug in 1.1.6D4 Most of my locals have reverted to 1.1.6C1 to get around this problem. The UK agents don't have a later version of the code :-( The same bug also exists in the TNC-220 version of the Pac-Comm 1.1.6D4 as well - same fix applies, revert to 1.1.6C1. Incidently all the TNC-220 Pac-Comm code seems to lock up in KISS mode if data is received on the radio port whilst the TNC is doing the "LED dance" at power-up. I've just hacked the LED dance out of the code I'm using on the TNC-220 and it is a lot better, but will still lock up if noise is received whilst the TNC is powering up. I know a couple of people who've tried the "220KISS" ROM from G8BPQ, but none of us can get the TNC to =ever= transmit anything. Perhaps it's a new way to relieve channel congestion?? Andrew Benham -------------------------------------------------------------------- adsb@bnr.co.uk BNR Europe Ltd, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA adsb@bnr.ca +44 279 402372 Fax: +44 279 402029 Home: g8fsl@g8fsl.ampr.org [44.131.19.165] -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 03:38:53 GMT From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.ans.net!uunorth!AccessPoint.North.Net!bgreiner@network.ucsd.edu Subject: packet and ARES To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu -- Hi : Our local ARES group is interested in adding packet radio capabilies to our "toolkit". We've got a number of people who have used packet, but none with lots of in-depth technical expertise. There are a number of questions we've got to look at, including : - is AX.25 or TCP/IP "better"? - what is the "best" hardware and software? - what sorts of things is packet best suited for, in an ARES context? - how gracefully does the communication channel degrade as more users are added? - what sort of standard software packages are out there for ARES use? - etc., etc., etc. Any advice/comments/voice-of-experience would be greatly appreciated! (I'd be willing to create & post a summary of the responses, if anyone is interested in such a thing). BTW, I'm an avid collector of manuals from other ARES groups, and am always on the lookout for new ones! For those who are interested, I'll gladly share a copy of ours and any others I've got (I have a few already). 73, Brian Greiner, VE3SPZ bgreiner@accesspt.north.net packet : VE3SPZ@VE3YRA.#EON.ON.CAN.NA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 10:44:00 -0600 From: darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!nuchat!cld9!mario.campos@seismo.css.gov Subject: SPLog - It Ain't Free!! To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu To All Hams World-Wide, I spotted a reference to a FREE logging program on a conference that I monitor on USENET. I had the article published in our Club newsletter as well as mailed to over 75 Hamclubs throughout Calif., Hawaii, the East Coast! A friend of mine sent for this program. He received his program but it isn't free. I find this sort of advertising to be deceptive and misleading. I find that $49.99 is not exactly free or did I miss something when I read the following description to SPLog. The following text was excerpted from the post on USENET and the docs that came with SPLog! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * FREE LOGBOOK SOFTWARE * * * ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Greetings to all. Latest version of very popular Logging software SPLog is now available to the world at large. For your free copy, send a formatted disk of your choice ^^^^^^^^^ (IBM format) with SASE (Foreign stamps are No Good in Canada) to: Peter Pfeiffer 63 Beaver Cr. Brantford, Ont. N3P 1T3 Canada Please do not send thin envelopes. Try to send a disc mailer and I will re-use it to return your disc. This is a free offer so try not to put me to any expense. ^^^^^^^^^^ The following is an excerpt from SPLog's documentaion files ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 8.0 SPLog License ------------------ SPLog is NOT a Public Domain program and is NOT free. SPLog is copyright (C) 1990-1994 by Alpha Business Software. Regular Registration Price $49.99 ^^^^^ Version Introducion (Until May 1, 94) $39.99 ^^^^^ Registered Users: Upgrade Diskette $15.00 ^^^^^ Non-registered users of this program are granted a limited one month license to SPLog to evaluate the programs suitability for their requirements. Any usage of SPLog beyond evaluation time period requires registration of each copy of the program used. Use of non- registered copies of SPLog beyond the original evaluation period is prohibited. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I plan to send a copy of this post to Peter, VE3NPL@VE3EUK.#SCON.ON.CAN.NA, via packet as well as all the shareware, hamradio conferences available to me through the Internet as well as copies to editors of various hamradio publications! 73, mario.campos@nitelog.com (Mario Campos) N6ALS@K6LY#NOCAL.CAL.USA.NA Message written at 10:45am, on Tuesday, January 25, 1994. --- * [R2.00o] * Usenet * Nitelog BBS * Monterey CA * 408-655-1096 ------------------------------ End of Ham-Digital Digest V94 #17 ******************************