Date: Tue, 18 Oct 94 04:30:33 PDT From: Ham-Digital Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Digital-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Digital@UCSD.Edu Precedence: List Subject: Ham-Digital Digest V94 #344 To: Ham-Digital Ham-Digital Digest Tue, 18 Oct 94 Volume 94 : Issue 344 Today's Topics: Amiga & BayCom = Amicom (new version out) Digital Radio Interflex Plocy Change (2 msgs) JNOS Motorola flip phone mods Need NEDA information Packet BBS posting from/to Japan? TCP/IP Packet on an HP100LX? X1J problems 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: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 15:17:07 GMT From: pfund@uni2a.unige.ch (Daniel Pfund) Subject: Amiga & BayCom = Amicom (new version out) Hi dear Amiga OMs and YLs, I will be uploading this week the latest version of Amicom (2.1a). It's only new features are new drivers for DAMA use with the BayCom.drv and KISS.drv. For those who don't know what Amicom is, please read the docs. I will upload it as usual to the Aminet (main site: wuarchive.wustl.edu in USA or in Europe: ftp.luth.se in the aminet/misc/sci directory. Best 73s, Daniel -- __ /// Daniel Pfund Internet:hb9vbc@pccr01.cern.ch __/// University of Geneva, Economics AX25: hb9vbc@hb9iap.srom.che.eu \\\/ meet the AMIGA's little brother: the Psion 3a! \ham radio amateur ------------------------------ Date: 18 Oct 1994 03:30:35 GMT From: patricio@glhpx15.cen.uiuc.edu (Andrew A Patricio) Subject: Digital Radio Howdy, How does one go about getting a ham license? Also does anybody know of a good source of information on digital radio? Both digital control of analog mod/demod & tuning as well as completely digital radio (ie a DSP being used for the mod/demod). Thanks. -- Andrew Patricio "Son, you got a panty on yur head." University of Illinois "Just drive, fast." patricio@coewl.cen.uiuc.edu http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~patricio/home.html -- Andrew Patricio "Son, you got a panty on yur head." University of Illinois "Just drive, fast." patricio@coewl.cen.uiuc.edu http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~patricio/home.html ------------------------------ Date: 17 Oct 1994 15:00:13 GMT From: levine@mc.com (Bob Levine) Subject: Interflex Plocy Change --- ------------------------------------------------------------ Bob Levine KD1GG 7J1AIS VK2GYN formerly KA1JFP levine@mc.com <--Internet email Phone(508) 256-1300 x247 kd1gg@wa1phy.ma <--Packet Mail FAX(508) 256-3599 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: 17 Oct 1994 15:10:38 GMT From: levine@mc.com (Bob Levine) Subject: Interflex Plocy Change Recently I posted this message to the net: In article s73@jericho.mc.com, levine@mc.com (Bob Levine) writes: -->For all you PkGold users, I just learned this week that -->Interflex has discontinued their bbs upgrade policy. This -->was very handy for me to get the latest point fixes, -->especially with all the Pk900 issues that were resolved. --> -->Now they want $15 for a floppy upgrade for the point -->bug fix releases (plus tax if you are lucky enough to -->live in CA). Call them and register your dislike of -->the new policy. Maybe they'll change back. --> -->The product is great, the people there are very receptive -->to suggestions, and the service is exceptional. Unfortunately -->they have taken a step backwards with the new policy. --> --> I received an email from them correcting one point. Bug fixes will be handled by a separate policy. I dont know what that other policy will be yet. From Interflex: >We have stated repeatedly (to you, and to others) that BUG FIXES will be >handled by a separate policy. > >What has changed is how we deliver MINOR UPGRADES -- and this was >influenced greatly by those who felt that our minor upgrade policy >discriminated against those without modems, those who felt it didn't >work (because they couldn't figure out how to use the downloaded file) >and those who felt that it was a REPLACEMENT for the TECHNICAL SUPPORT >PROCESS. Please excuse my incorrect posting about bug fixes. I tend to lump bug fixes and enhancements to existing code in the same bucket. Although I have some sympathy for those without modems, I stand by my assertion that removing the BBS service for minor enhancements is very dissapointing to me. I call several times per year from Boston to California to keep my versions current. I should also point out that most users including myself regard Interflex's product as the Cadillac of the digital mode programs. I personally own 3 registered versions (each registered to 2 different callsigns so my wife KA1WRW and I can each use them legally). I currently use regularly 2 different registered versions, one on a PK88 and 1 on a PK900. The PK88 is a dedicated Packetcluster station and the PK900 is for packet BBS and RTTY mainly. Again, I love the product and highly reccomend it. It is well worth the money. My ONLY point in the posting was my dissapointment in the removal of the BBS upgrade service which was replaced by a $15 floppy mail method. --- ------------------------------------------------------------ Bob Levine KD1GG 7J1AIS VK2GYN formerly KA1JFP levine@mc.com <--Internet email Phone(508) 256-1300 x247 kd1gg@wa1phy.ma <--Packet Mail FAX(508) 256-3599 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: 17 Oct 94 20:01:14 GMT From: jaydhall@everest.Iccy.COM Subject: JNOS I am looking for the JNOS file that lists the problems and solutions that others have run into while setting it up on their IBM PC's. Perhaps it is a FAQ file. I saw something like this posted here before but did not have the sense to write it down. Any help would be apprecitated. I would like the name and location of the file so I can ftp it. Thanks! Jay D. Hall WA6MOK jaydhall@iccy.com ------------------------------ Date: 17 Oct 1994 13:33:50 -0400 From: glide@shore.net (Michael L. Glidewell) Subject: Motorola flip phone mods ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 08:38:08 EDT From: rapp@lmr.mv.com (Larry Rappaport) Subject: Need NEDA information w6go@netcom.com (Jay O'Brien - W6GO) writes: > Can someone please provide the proper contact information for the > Northeast Digital Association? I sent them a check for $15.00 which was > supposed to pay for an associate membership and a copy of the 1994 annual > NEDA publication which includes a great writeup on X1J. > > Unfortunately I didn't make a note of where I sent the check, which they > deposited on July 26, 1994. I have the canceled check here, so I know > they have been paid. Now, I need to contact them to see what went wrong. > > Thanks! > > Jay O'Brien > w6go@netcom.com > > > -- NEDA Box 563 Manchester, NH 03105 -- Larry ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- L. M. Rappaport & Associates, Inc. rapp@lmr.mv.com voice +1 603 237 8400 Colebrook, NH 03576-0158 CIS 72427,2567 fax +1 603 237 8430 ------------------------------ Date: 17 Oct 94 10:25:20 MDT From: greg@radar.safb.af.mil (Greg Horine) Subject: Packet BBS posting from/to Japan? >Message-ID: >From: wa2ise@netcom.com (Robert Casey) > >I have seen on my "home" packet BBS postings from many countries in Europe, >some from South America, of course North America, but never seen any from >Japan. A ham friend thinks that may be because of a 3rd party traffic >rule or something forbidding automatic passing of posts from other hams >or something. > >What is the real story in Japan? They don't have packet BBS's like >those in USA there? Or have the Japanese hams not linked their networks >to the rest of the world? Hi, I thought that I'd answer this question, at least in part. I've been corresponding with a ham in Japan for almost a year now, exclusively by packet. He recently moved, so I haven't received an updated home PBBS address for him, but if you're interested, I can post the address for the PBBS that he was on. As far as I can tell, packet is very active in japan. I haven't seen any bulletins or anything like that originating in Japan, but regular private type traffic is going and coming. By the way, I sent my messages via the services of a satellite gateway station, using the REQSAT system. I've had messages experience a turn-around time of less than four hours, including satellite time! Contact your local PBBS sysop for more info on the REQSAT system. 73 and good luck de Greg N9PBD AX.25: N9PBD @ N9OMD.#SIL.IL.USA.NA tcp/ip: n9pbd@n9pbd-2.ampr.org [44.46.66.29] internet: 15sms24.hqamc@mhs.safb.af.mil ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 14:23:28 UNDEFINED From: kevin.jessup@meipws.mis.mei.com (Kevin Jessup) Subject: TCP/IP Packet on an HP100LX? Just curious if anyone has implemented/ported/tried an amateur packet radio TCP/IP OS for the HP100LX. If so, please point me to an FTP site that has the code. Thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------------- /`-_ kevin.jessup@mail.mei.com | { }/ Marquette Electronics, Inc | SS RF: "License? We don't \ / Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA | need no stinkin' license!" |__*| N9SQB@n9pby.en63ff.wi.usa.na | -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 17:13:02 UNDEFINED From: bob@jriver.com (Robert E. Brose II) Subject: X1J problems In recent postings about memory allocation problems in X1j, it was stated that the memory allocation problems only occured when NOT IN CROSSLINK 2 MODE. Is this for sure the case?? I'm curious because our club has half a dozen heavily loaded x1j's rev 1 running in crosslink 2 mode. Thanks, Bob | Robert E. Brose II bob@jriver.com (N0QBJ) | James River Group Inc | | WWW http://www.jriver.com/~bob/ | 125 North First Street | | Compuserve:72067,3021 | Minneapolis, MN 55401 | | HOME: bob@os9.jriver.com | 612-339-2521 | ------------------------------ End of Ham-Digital Digest V94 #344 ******************************