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Ham-Digital Digest          Sat, 30 Apr 94       Volume 94 : Issue  133

Today's Topics:
              BAYCOM type modem on a Macintosh? (2 msgs)
                           DRSI DPK9600...
                          Integrate HF w/WAN
                            KPC-3 Posting
              On email addresses and host names (2 msgs)
                                RTTY ?
                         TI Insight Series 10

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Date: 29 Apr 1994 08:43:06 -0400
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.ans.net!hp81.prod.aol.net!search01.news.aol.com![e-mail]
Subject: BAYCOM type modem on a Macintosh?
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
writes:

The BAYCOM modem is supported in NET/Mac and I am pretty sure it is supported
in Savant? Maybe Jim can add to the Savant status.

What he probably need is:

<SoftKiss 1.8>
 Control panel device that emulates a TNC running in KISS mode. For use with
packet-radio modems such as the Baycom kit and PacketMac Modem. Version 1.8
July 9 1993 update since 1.6. KD6PAG found a bug in quoting recieved escape and
end characters is sofktiss 1.6. The bug and the fix and patch are all correct,
thanks for some great detective work. Lots of doc files and drawings included
in this archive! Requires the Serial Tool from Apple's Communications Toolbox!
Available on the HAMNET forum of Compuserve, America Online and via anonymous
FTP from akutaktak.andrew.cmu.edu (/aw0g).
 System 7

Under a seperate message, I'll send you a list of Mac software he may find
interesting.

73 for now.... c u on the shortwaves
Terry Stader - KA8SCP
America Online Ham Radio Club Host
Macintosh Amateur Radio Software List Maintainer
Internet: [e-mail] (e-mail)  or
          [e-mail] (binaries/files >28K)
KA8SCP@WA1PHY.#EMA.MA.USA.NOAM
[e-mail] [44.56.4.82] Mac
                       [44.56.4.120] DOS Clone
(they're BOTH pc's!)

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Date: 29 Apr 94 19:44:53 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu![e-mail]
Subject: BAYCOM type modem on a Macintosh?
To: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:

>A friend recently built one of the packet modems like the BAYCOM or Poor Man's
>Packet (he described it as a BAYCOM, I haven't seen it) and it works like a
>charm on an XT.  However, he has a Macintosh and would like to use it on that
>computer.  Is the software for this type of modem available for the MAC?

  Yep, as Terry mentioned, SoftKiss will drive packet modems. And my
program (Savant) will speak with SoftKiss (or any TNC in KISS mode)
and provide a nice Macintosh interface for packet radio. You can get
SoftKiss as well as a demo copy of Savant via anonymous ftp from:
cpre1.ee.iastate.edu:/pub/ke0ph/

>Also, he is having trouble hooking the modem up to his Kenwood TH-78 HT and
>would appreciate any pointers on getting that to work correctly.

  Kenwood's use a different PTT method than others. As I recall you
have to connect between the sheilds of the input audio and earphone
jacks. You can try it with a screwdriver to be sure. Then it just
takes a slight modification of the modem to tie those two points
together through the output transistor, rather than the 3.3K ohm
resistor.

+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| Jim Van Peursem - Ph.D. Candidate      (Ham Radio -> KE0PH)   |
| Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering |
| Iowa State University - Ames, IA 50011 : [phone]       |
| internet - [e-mail]  -or-  [e-mail]    |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+

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Date: 29 Apr 94 17:08:24 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: DRSI DPK9600...
To: [e-mail]

   Hi, i ve been using the DRSI DPK9600 tnc here to set up a radio for 9600
baud. It works with my upstairs station (IC471a/G3RUH modem/MFJ1270B) just
fine , thru the new radio. It uses a z80, and some custom chips, and the
MXCOM MX489 single chip .5GFSK modem. That s techno speak for K9NG modulation
or what the 2 way radio advertiseing people now call DGFSK or is it DGMSK?
So, altogether, this TNC only has 10 chips! Pretty slick. Radio baud rate
it simple, u select 4800/9600/19k2 with jumpers in side the TNC. It has audio
input, and output level controls. The input level control was useful this time
around. That is, these controls are internal multi turn pots.

  Im not sure if its a 10 Mhz Z80 or not. Usually for 19k2, 10 Mhz Z80 would
be a minimun for proper operation. It is also using the same Z80 SIO as the
TNC 2, so maybe, and this is a BIG MAYBE, its TNC 2 code compatible. And NO
it does not send the tx audio continuously, during rx. It turns this audio
off and on successfully.

  Pretty nice unit, on the whole. Probably what one version of the original
TNC 2 should have been.

73, Don. [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 16:22:57 GMT
From: swrinde!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!zeus.rbi.informatik.@@ihnp4.ucsd.edu
Subject: Integrate HF w/WAN
To: [e-mail]

Hi:

I can imagine this would be excruciatingly slow but - does anyone
have any amateur or business experience with using HF for WAN
connectivity?  I'd like to put an HF transceiver at our hub location
and provide mobile users the opportunity to at least upload and download
files if not interactively log into their home accounts. Any comments
would be appreciated.

73,
KJ4QF

Kevin der Kinderen      [e-mail]    703-756-1971
Opinions voiced are my own, not my employer's.

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Date: 29 Apr 94 19:09:12 GMT
From: ncrgw2.ncr.com!ncrhub2!ciss!wtcp![e-mail]
Subject: KPC-3 Posting
To: [e-mail]

A few days ago there was a posting for someone getting rid of two Kantronics
KPC-3's.  There was a phone number listed I believe in the 404 area code.  i
was not able to write it down would like to contact the person who did the
posting.  Did anyone keep the number?
--
Bruce Langos
Workstation Products Division
[e-mail]
...!uunet!ncrcom!ciss!wtcp!blangos

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Date: 29 Apr 94 18:27:13 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: On email addresses and host names
To: [e-mail]

>    96 days without a re-boot...  Not one hiccup!  What are you
>waiting for?

someone to write the step-by-step procedures needed to blackstart such a
beastie w/o having the time to go back to school to become a unix gooroo.

spec ALL the parts used and where to get them.  "make install"? i didn't get a
"make" with my copy of DOS  (or a C compiler for that matter..). include
workarounds for things that may not go right.  be available to help guide
folks into and out of things that may be bad/good with the program.

73 would probably buy it.  last time i did something for them it was like
$50/page.  could be the seminal work for this idea...especially if you can
show how to do things like dual boot to other systems including ol' DOS and
OS/2. maybe it'll even be a monthly column...

probable target system:

    386sx16 with 4 Mb ram and a 40 Mb disk.  VGA display. a couple of
    com ports (1 with mickeysoft mouse), etc.

bill wb9ivr

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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 94 13:09:43 EDT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!neoucom.edu!ns.mcs.kent.edu!kira.cc.uakron.edu!malgudi.oar.net!hypnos!voxbox![e-mail]
Subject: On email addresses and host names
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Karl J. Vesterling N2VQM) writes:

>     Simple... RSO...  Get rid of DOS, run Linux, and get on with

I've been convinced for a long time, but a friend tells me that
without a CD-ROM, the diskspace Linux takes is prohibitive. He
says 100 megs. On my 200 meg drive, that's a lot.


/----------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Jim Grubs, W8GRT            Voxbox Enterprises    Tel.: [phone] |
| [e-mail]   6817 Maplewood Ave.                      |
| Fido: 1:234/1.0             Sylvania, Ohio 43560                     |
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Date: 29 Apr 1994 12:45:36 -0700
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!news.claremont.edu!kaiwan.com![e-mail]
Subject: RTTY ?
To: [e-mail]

I am looking for a low cost decoder and software to run on PC to read in
RTTY on HF radio, and store them as file. Can anyone advise if there is
public domain software on the net ? and where to ftp from ?

--
  Johnny C.Lin        Tel: [phone]
  P.O.Box 536         Fax: [phone]
  Artesia, CA 90702
  U.S.A.              Internet: [e-mail]

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Date: 29 Apr 94 19:44:25 GMT
From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu![e-mail]
Subject: TI Insight Series 10
To: [e-mail]

Anyone have manuals (or set-up info) for the above mentioned terminal?
Please reply to me <[e-mail]> or Dan <[e-mail]>.

TIA ES 73

Peter Laws <[e-mail]>  |>>        University of Arkansas        <<
n5uwy@ka5bml.#nwar.ar.usa.noam    |>> Home of the NCAA Champion Razorbacks <<

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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 16:09:36 GMT
From: spsgate!mogate!newsgate!dtsdev0![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <2oaspl$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>xas
Subject : Re: On email addresses and host names

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Karl J. Vesterling N2VQM) writes:
>  I like to say DOS is like a bicycle, and UNIX is like an 18 wheeler.
>
>    The 18 wheeler makes the most out of it's horsepower, and
>payload, and it has air conditioning, power windows, power brakes.

  Unfortunately, it is loaded down with both halves of a mobile home (stacked),
a 40 foot sailing yacht, 4 cars, a truck, household goods too numerous to
mention, a couple of jet-skis and a travel trailer.

  Of course, this could just be a religious war....

-dave, not a dos user either.


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