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- From: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Picking up HAM radio transmissions on A3000
- Date: 6 Nov 1992 09:37:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.213716.6167@ncar.ucar.edu>, rsc@hao.ucar.edu (Bob Campbell) writes:
- > My father has a HAM radio with a serial port. He bought it under the presumption
- > that he had seen a program that allows you to connect HAM Radio via the
- > serial port, and tune in on the weather satellites. I vaguely remember seeing
- > something to that effect a while ago also, but I have yet to find it.
- > Does anyone know if such a program exists or not, and where I can find it?
-
- Any ham radios with serial ports that I've seen use the port to control
- the radio, i.e tune it, set memories, etc. Only the very expensive ones
- (> $2000) have the necessary hardware built-in to decode satellite
- info.
-
- To process the weathersat data usually requires a bit of extra hardware
- that plugs into the headphone socket and demodulates the audio. That info
- can then be processed by a computer.
-
- I think that a company called BlackBelt makes such programs (& hardware) for
- the Amiga. There are usually quite a few adverts for things like that in the
- Ham radio magazines.
-
- Steve
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