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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----
>>>>>> No virus found in this message.
>>>>>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
>>>>>> Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1516/3762 - Release Date:
>>>>>> 07/13/11
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----
>>>> No virus found in this message.
>>>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
>>>> Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1516/3762 - Release Date: 07/13/11
>>>>
>>
>>
>> -----
>> No virus found in this message.
>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
>> Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1516/3762 - Release Date: 07/13/11
>>
>
>
|
