Date: Wed, 20 Jul 94 04:30:46 PDT From: Ham-Space Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Space-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Space@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Ham-Space Digest V94 #199 To: Ham-Space Ham-Space Digest Wed, 20 Jul 94 Volume 94 : Issue 199 Today's Topics: Portable 9600 buad PacSat Station Design 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-Space Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/ham-space". 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: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 16:10:37 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!pipex!demon!news@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Portable 9600 buad PacSat Station Design To: ham-space@ucsd.edu In article n7ryw@teleport.com (William Roth) writes: >In article <2vsbsu$9ve@gv-gate.gvg.tek.com> randyh@gvgadg.gvg.tek.com (Randy Hall) writes: >>From: randyh@gvgadg.gvg.tek.com (Randy Hall) >>Subject: Portable 9600 buad PacSat Station Design >>Date: 11 Jul 1994 21:00:14 GMT > >> The tracking program could generate an AZ/EL list before the pass >>and either print a list (if printer available) or the user could write >>these numbers down. Then during to pass the operator hand tracks the >>satellite and lets PB or PG run. Being more of a Mac person, can PB & PG run >>under Soft PC on a Mac portable? > >Avoid a Mac like the plague for anything related to Amateur Radio. It may be >familiar, but when you try to run PB or PG, even the fastest emulator will >have a real hard time keeping up with 9600. I expect serial overruns aplenty. >There is a lot of Ham related software for the PC, very little for the Mac, >and an older laptop of the PC variety will run you less $$ anyway. > What complete and utter nonsense. For a start there are several Sat tracking programmes for the Mac at least one that I use has AZ/EL control and yes there is also a version of Broadcast for the Mac. As to there been "very little for the Mac," I personally have about 12 meg of ham software for the Mac covering everything from Sats, DXing, TCP/IP, AX25 Packet, Grayline etc etc. One things for sure, the vast majority of it is a lot better written than most Ham PC software I've ever seen. If anyone is interested I'd be more than happy to send you a list. While I agree with most of your reply it would seem that there are some areas were perhaps a little more home work could have been done. Kind regards, Sean. ------------------------------ End of Ham-Space Digest V94 #199 ******************************