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From: crouchingllama@netscape.net (Osama/bin/login)
Subject: NEW HARDWARE FOR DIGITAL MODES!
Cecil--
The DSP is in the soundcard you interface the device to.
(I always though it was a Good Thing to be able to have
paid for hardware do double or triple duty...)
For $80, you get a device that makes rig to souncard and PC
comm port connections a breeze, and you can leave it inline
during voice operation. Sign me up!
As far as any 'netnews guidelines' (you mean UseNet?), I
think roughly half the activity in here in in major violation
of any guidelines!
I, for one, welcome a commercial post from someone who is
marketing good ideas in HAM hardware. His post was not
SPAM, and was constructive IMHO. Many posts in here
are anything _but_ constructive, and they are allowed...
73
On Wed, 09 Feb 2000 13:25:47 -0600, W6RCecilA <Cecil.A.Moore@IEEE.org>
wrote:
>Del Schier, K1UHF wrote:
>> I hope that this message is not a problem being commercial in nature.
>
>Well, it does violate the netnews guidelines. Have you read the netnews
>guidelines?
>
>> We would like feedback from this group, we are not ready to take
>> orders, we are simply asking for your feedback.
>
>What is its principle of operation? For $80, I doubt it is DSP-
>based and anything except a DSP-based design is obsolete. Is this
>just another analog FSK modem? Is this just another level detector
>design?
>--
>73, Cecil, W6RCA http://www.mindspring.com/~w6rca
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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 18:14:04 -0600
From: W6RCecilA <Cecil.A.Moore@IEEE.org>
Subject: NEW HARDWARE FOR DIGITAL MODES!
Osama/bin/login wrote:
> For $80, you get a device that makes rig to souncard and PC
> comm port connections a breeze, and you can leave it inline
> during voice operation. Sign me up!
For free, I can do it out of my junk box. Whatever happened to
ham radio?
--
73, Cecil, W6RCA http://www.mindspring.com/~w6rca
>.
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:21:23 -0500
From: "Bob Lewis" <aa4pb@erols.com>
Subject: NEW HARDWARE FOR DIGITAL MODES!
Cecil, no doubt you can build an interface for a
few bucks that will work just fine but I'll bet
you can't buy the case that thing is in for $5.00.
MFJ is selling a voice/digital switch for $39.95
and it has no serial/PTT interface or isolation
transformers. Like you, I'd personally build my
own but I think $80 is within reason if you want
to purchase something already built and ready to
go.
>.
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 03:25:03 GMT
From: "Hank Oredson" <horedson@att.net>
Subject: NEW HARDWARE FOR DIGITAL MODES!
"W6RCecilA" <Cecil.A.Moore@IEEE.org> wrote in message
news:38A202CC.8F0CC9C1@IEEE.org...
> Osama/bin/login wrote:
> > For $80, you get a device that makes rig to souncard and PC
> > comm port connections a breeze, and you can leave it inline
> > during voice operation. Sign me up!
>
> For free, I can do it out of my junk box. Whatever happened to
> ham radio?
> --
> 73, Cecil, W6RCA http://www.mindspring.com/~w6rca
Even better than your first offer!
I'll take six, assuming you give bulk shipping discount.
To what address do I send the money?
--
... Hank
http://horedson.home.att.net
>.
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:33:46 -0600
From: "Steve Sampson" <ssampson@usa-site.net>
Subject: NEW HARDWARE FOR DIGITAL MODES!
> > For $80, you get a device that makes rig to souncard and PC
> > comm port connections a breeze, and you can leave it inline
> > during voice operation. Sign me up!
>
> For free, I can do it out of my junk box. Whatever happened to
> ham radio?
People with junk boxes like yours have been keeling over rather
exponentially now. Rather than saving all their money for beer and
cigarettes, they spend it on mass produced parts, eat salad,
talk with their family, jog, and drool over Algore's latest tax and
spend vision...
>.
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:49:30 -0600
From: "Steve Sampson" <ssampson@usa-site.net>
Subject: NEW HARDWARE FOR DIGITAL MODES!
Del, sounds good. I would have added an RS-232 adapter as well.
Del Schier, K1UHF wrote
..
> We would like feedback from this group, we are not ready to take
> orders, we are simply asking for your feedback.
>.
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 16:26:37 -0500
From: "Bob Lewis" <aa4pb@erols.com>
Subject: NEW HARDWARE FOR DIGITAL MODES!
Cecil, did you look at the web page ? :-) This
thing looks to be a pretty nice sound card to rig
interface with audio isolation transformers,
serial port to PTT control, mike/sound card
selector switch, etc. It's not a decoder - just an
audio and PTT interface.
> What is its principle of operation? For $80, I
doubt it is DSP-
> based and anything except a DSP-based design is
obsolete. Is this
> just another analog FSK modem? Is this just
another level detector
> design?
> --
> 73, Cecil, W6RCA
http://www.mindspring.com/~w6rca
>.
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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 22:45:11 -0500
From: Ralph Mowery <rmowery@dialpoint.net>
Subject: NEW HARDWARE FOR DIGITAL MODES!
I also think the $ 80 is also on the high side for what the interface
box does. That said, for the hams that will not take the time to learn
how to build simple circuits , let them pay the price. While the
building of transceivers and such are way too much for almost all hams,
they should learn to build the simple things or pay the price. Hams
should have some soldering equipment and also a SWR bridge of some
kind. Just hacks me off they can not put up an antenna and check it
out. I mean really look at the price of some of the wire dipoles and
G5RV type antennas.
About 20 years ago I could not afford a ST-6 so I built one from the
plans in a ham radio magazine. Could not afford to buy a computer at
that time either so I pieced together some junk at the hamfests and
found an old 8080 computer board with about 1 k of ram and 2 K of eprom
with a monitor program in it. Had to teach myself how to program in hex
and write a rtty program. Took aobut a year to do all that. Just too
much of the NOW generation. Everyone just wants to put down the cash
and get it now.. I am sometimes guilty of that myself now.
Bob Lewis wrote:
>
> Cecil, no doubt you can build an interface for a
> few bucks that will work just fine but I'll bet
> you can't buy the case that thing is in for $5.00.
> MFJ is selling a voice/digital switch for $39.95
> and it has no serial/PTT interface or isolation
> transformers. Like you, I'd personally build my
> own but I think $80 is within reason if you want
> to purchase something already built and ready to
> go.
>.
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 03:23:29 GMT
From: "Hank Oredson" <horedson@att.net>
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