Date: Sun, 25 Sep 94 04:30:17 PDT 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 #319 To: Ham-Digital Ham-Digital Digest Sun, 25 Sep 94 Volume 94 : Issue 319 Today's Topics: Best Packet SW? (2 msgs) Graphic Packet in English? Graphic Packet on XT? Info Wanted on Commercial Packet Radio Network N0ARY Software NOAA Weather Radio-162 MHz band-WRSAME 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: 24 Sep 1994 14:47:47 -0400 From: psinntp!JH.Org!not-for-mail@uunet.uu.net Subject: Best Packet SW? To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu ss@JH.Org (Steve Steinberg) writes: >Hi all! >I just got a KPC3 as a starter tnc and I am trying to figure out >what software to run with it. I would much rather stick with pd >stuff. I've got copies of PaKet and Lan-Link. What else should >I be looking at and what do you packet.people recommend? I said pd but I meant shareware too! Sorry about that. >TIA & 73s, >Steve >KB2___ (8 1/2 weeks and holding my breath :-( ) Almost 9 weeks now !! >-- >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >ss@jh.org Steve Steinberg Amateur Radio Callsign: KB2??? -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ss@jh.org Steve Steinberg Amateur Radio Callsign: KB2??? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 02:30:47 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!netcom.com!seymour@ihnp4.ucsd.edu Subject: Best Packet SW? To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu In article <35t5au$n72@snoopy.jh.org>, Steve Steinberg wrote: >Hi all! > >I just got a KPC3 as a starter tnc and I am trying to figure out >what software to run with it. I would much rather stick with pd >stuff. I've got copies of PaKet and Lan-Link. What else should >I be looking at and what do you packet.people recommend? For a plain terminal type communications program, try mskermit. It is public domain (not shareware) and you can find it on the ftp archive oak.oakland.edu in with path /pub/msdos/kermit/msker313.zip. > >TIA & 73s, >Steve >KB2___ (8 1/2 weeks and holding my breath :-( ) >-- >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >ss@jh.org Steve Steinberg Amateur Radio Callsign: KB2??? -- Ken Seymour seymour@netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: 24 Sep 1994 15:54:26 -0700 From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!barrnet.net!nntp.crl.com!crl7.crl.com!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Graphic Packet in English? To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu I've ftp'd several versions of Graphic Packet and have yet to find on with English docs. Is this a trick... I see others talking about it and it seems to be fairly popular but maybe they all have someone who reads German (I'm guessing of course, since I don't read German). Just curious... I haven't been able to make the German version work, mostly because I don't understand the error messages or the config file... Just curious... Maybe you get an english version when you register? Also I would be interested in others opinions of this program... Thanks... Dennis N6NG Internet: n6ng@crl.com TCPIP: dennis@ccwest.n6ng.ampr.org AX25: n6ng@kj6fy.#norcal -- Dennis n6ng@crl.com dennis@ccwest.n6ng n6ng@wd6cmu ------------------------------ Date: 24 Sep 1994 15:08:09 -0400 From: newstf01.cr1.aol.com!newsbf01.news.aol.com!not-for-mail@uunet.uu.net Subject: Graphic Packet on XT? To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu Does anyone know if there is a driver for GP to run on an XT, the supplied driver is for AT... de WB5NBQ ------------------------------ Date: 23 Sep 1994 00:04:56 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!nwnexus!news.halcyon.com!coho!strohs@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Info Wanted on Commercial Packet Radio Network To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu Nick Chang (nich@wam.umd.edu) wrote: : Hi there, : Execuse me if I post this message in the wrong group. If that : is the case, can someone point to the right group for me? : Basically, I would appreciate if someone can inform me about : any commercial use of packet radio. Is there any existing commercial : packet radio network? How can I utilize it to pass data to a remote : place where the cost of any other means is relatively high? : Thank you very much for your suggestions. : Nick There are several. Ardis is owned by Motorola and IBM (or was- think IBM bailed out). Ardis is the network behind the neat handheld terminals that IBM servicepersons carried around. RAM Mobile Data is another. There is also a new entrant- Metricom and their Richochet Microcellular Network. They're the most promising for the casual user- they use the 900 MHz band, access is cheap. Metricom is in Los Gatos, CA. I don't have any pointers for RAM or Ardis. Steve Stroh -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Stroh strohs@halcyon.com or steves@strohpub.com (WildCat! BBS) Ham Radio TCP/IP n8gnj@sw.n8gnj.ampr.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 23 Sep 1994 22:59:51 GMT From: ankh.iia.org!whitep1@uunet.uu.net Subject: N0ARY Software To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu If anyone knows where I can get a copy of the lastest version Or release of the N0ARY PAcket BBS software, please let me know by responding in mail. Thanks a bunch! Paul, KD6DZP ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 1994 00:05:35 -0000 From: news.delphi.com!news.delphi.com!not-for-mail@uunet.uu.net Subject: NOAA Weather Radio-162 MHz band-WRSAME To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu Does anyone have any technical information on WRSAME? (Weather Radio Specified Area Message Encoder) Would like to know mode of operation, speed, as well as the content of the message. (coded or plain english). I have a brochure describing a radio made by Nemar, Inc of Dallas, TX which describes the features of a weather radio that makes use of the WRSAME data. The radio is programmed by the user. The user can program the radio for 31 event/location combinations. The user will then receive a warning for a specific event or geographic location, instead of an entire metro area. The brochure does not give any other specifics. The NWS in Kansas City is currently using WRSAME when issuing watches and warnings. There are 3 short bursts sent prior to the 1050 Hz tone. The total time is about 2 seconds for all 3 bursts. I've talked to a few of the NWS personnel and some amateur radio people, and have not been able to get this information. Since tests, watches, and warnings are not issued every day, it's difficult to experiment. Would like to make use of this feature using my PK-232 if possible. Evan Hill Holt, MO ------------------- EVANHILL@delphi.com ------------------------------ End of Ham-Digital Digest V94 #319 ******************************