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- How To Set Up And Run A Packet Station
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- 1, Get A Tnc.
- 2, Get A 2 mtr Transceiver
- 3, Get A Computer Or Terminal.
- 4, Get A Piece Of String From The Shed.
- 5, Connect The Tnc To The Radio As It Shows In The Manuals.
- 6, Connect The Tnc To The Computer Or Terminal.
- 7, Switch It All On.
- 8, Check the Smeter On The Radio, Nothing Showing, Buy A 100W Pa.
- 9, Connect The 100W Pa Between The Radio And The String.
- 10, Check The S meter, Great, Signals Appear As If By Magic.
- 11, Throw The Manual In The Corner, After All You Got This Far Without It.
- 12, Set Up The Tnc From Memory (Why Not You Got Past On The Last Bit).
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- Tnc Parameters And How To Set Them For Best Results.
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- (a) CONok OFF (You Dont Want Others Connecting To You Till
- You Get It All Working).
- (b) USers 10 (You Can Converse with A Large Crowd At The Pub).
- (c) REtry 0 (After All You Dont Want It To Stop).
- (d) BEacon Every 1 (Got To Tell Eveybody Your On).
- (e) CWid Every 1 (Your Learning Morse).
- (f) Digi ON
- (g) P-Persist OFF
- (h) BText All 120 Characters Must Be Used.
- (i) Conperm ON (Once You Have Him,You Dont Want To Loose Him).
- (j) CWIDtext All 32 Characters Must Be Used.
- (k) FRack 0
- (l) MAXfram 7
- (m) MYAlias (Anything Daft Will Do).
- (n) MYCALL NOCALL (Thats what Its Set To So Its Right).
- (o) MYPCall Anything-2
- (p) Paclen 255 (You Like Large Numbers).
- (q) PERSist 255 ( " ).
- (r) RElink ON (If He Goes You Want To Reconnect To Him).
- (s) SLottime 0
- (t) TXUIFram ON (He's Got To See What Was Waiting To Go To Him).
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- 14, Set The Radio Up - Volume, Minimum.
- Squelch, Maximum.
- PA, 100Watts, Preamp On.
- String, Plugged Into The PA.
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- 15, Issue A Connect Request To Your Mate Up The Road.(After All He's Got
- To Hear You With The Preamp And PA On).
- 16, Make A Cup Of Coffee.
- 17, He Still Hasn't Answered.
- 18, Have A Bath.
- 19, He Still Hasn't Answered,He Must Be busy.
- 20, Take The Dog For A Walk.
- 21, He Still Hasn't Answered, This Packet Must Be Good,Il Leave It Trying
- Because He's Bound To Be Free In Soon.
- 22, Go To Bed, After All, Its Doing Its Thing Why Interfere With It.
- 23, Wake Up For Work.
- 24, He Still Hasnt Answered, Must Have Been Up All Night Using His Gear,So
- Il Leave It Going, I Know He Doesn't Work So He's Bound To Answer Me
- Today.
- 25, Home For Tea.
- 26, He Still Hasn't Answered.
- 27, Switch It All Off, Go Up The Street And Tell Your Mate His Radio Must
- Be Deaf.
- 27, Your Mate Says " I Havn't Been Using My System", And Shows You His
- Station Working Properly, With The Settings In The Manual. You Decide,
- (After He Gives You A Clout Round The Ear With A Bat), That Maybe You
- Had Better Go And See If The Dustbin Hasn't Been Emptied, And Retreive
- The Manual That You Should Have Read In The First PLace.
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- End of message from GW8ERA @ GB7IMB