I go to www.packetradio.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: packet
>I must have issed the link some where. Where do you go to get cables
> made?
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.
>
>
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, jim johnson wrote:
>
>> well I looked at that site and if I get a kpc3, I will order a cable.
>> Since
>> I am retired, I do not have the motor skills to make up a cable now. I
>> read
>> the manual for the kpc3 and I really like it. I used to have an a e a
>> many
>> years ago, and I used telix with it.
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:32 PM
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: packet
>>
>>> I cheated there, I went to www.packetradio.com and ordered a cable. I
>>> have
>>> made them in the past, I used to buy any radio I could get my hands on,
>>> usually ones with no PL tone boards or whatever so I have made cables
>>> for
>>> radios in the past but for my current radio, a TM-271A, been running 5
>>> years
>>> straight and still going, I bought the cable. The idea of putting a
>>> modular
>>> connector on doesn't appeal to me. I suppose I could do what they did
>>> and
>>> cut an Ethernet cable but I didn't. I bought this radio because it was a
>>> good deal from someone who couldn't figure out how to use it for some
>>> reason
>>> and the older radios with no tone boards was fine, but I had people
>>> digipeating through me every morning back and forth for a good 4 to 6
>>> hours
>>> and that sent many of the old radios to their graves. That, on top of my
>>> heavy NTS use at the time, it's died out now but I used to handle many
>>> hundreds and in the summer while people are on vacations thousands of
>>> messages and almost all had a packet aspect to them somewhere. This
>>> radio
>>> can take it though that doesn't happen so much anymore, it does happen
>>> every
>>> now and again.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "jim johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:51 AM
>>> Subject: Re: packet
>>>
>>>
>>>> I agree I guess you use hyperterminal or something like that, how did
>>>> you
>>>> make the interface cable from the kpc3 to the radio?
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:49 AM
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Subject: Re: packet
>>>>
>>>>> Soundcard interfaces aren't bad on HF with PSK31 and what not but what
>>>>> I
>>>>> do
>>>>> is vhf packet and you can do that with a sound card interface but I
>>>>> much
>>>>> prefer doing it the way it's been done forever, with the TNC.
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "jim johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:10 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: packet
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks, that is what I am considering. I have had people suggest
>>>>>> sound
>>>>>> card
>>>>>> interfaces to me.
>>>>>> Jim
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:07 AM
>>>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: packet
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I run a Kamtronics KPC-3
>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>> From: "jim johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:43 AM
>>>>>>> Subject: packet
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I would like to know if anyone is using pack and what tnc or sound
>>>>>>>> card
>>>>>>>> =
>>>>>>>> interface. I used to be on packet a number of years ago, and now I
>>>>>>>> am
>>>>>>>> =
>>>>>>>> interested again.
>>>>>>>> Jim wb4kmq
>>>>>>>
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