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Packet-Radio Digest Wed, 30 Dec 98 Volume 98 : Issue 282
Today's Topics:
PacComm Sprint -2 9600 BPS Packet Controller
Packet Hackers (3 msgs)
packet software for palmIII?
Sound card program
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:28:57 -0500
From: "John Herzog" <dop@interlog.com>
Subject: PacComm Sprint -2 9600 BPS Packet Controller
Interested in up to 56K packet?
http://www.haybay.net/va3wm/class/classifieds.cgi?search_and_display_db_butt
on=on&db_id=1198&exact_match=on&photo_size=full
The URL is a monster but if you can get it into the address window of your
browser you'll see an ad for a PacComm Sprint -2 9600 BPS Packet Controller
that I think is offered at a good price. And in Canadian dollars too...so
divide by about 1.55 and that's roughly what it'll cost you.
--
Free Ham Swap Shop where your listings last for 90 days.
The more places you post your items the quicker you'll get results, right?
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 05:28:39 -0500
From: Brian Kelly <Kelly@dvol.com>
Subject: Packet Hackers
Gary Coffman wrote:
<snip>
> In other words, it is the BBS paradigm that's
> obsolete, whether it is over radio or landline. The folks using internet to
> forward between packet BBSs are also beating a dead horse. They aren't
> offering anything desirable that a live internet connection doesn't better
> provide to the user.
.. . . with one useful exception. 2m packet DX spots have become an integral
part
of the HF contesting and DXing game. Packet does this much better than the
Internet can do it because it's done in very close to real time (seconds) and
you
do not have to hang on the twisted pair or a cable modem all weekend, you just
need a 2m xcvr, a TNC and a few bytes of program code.
> Gary
> Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it |mail to ke4zv@bellsouth.net
> 534 Shannon Way | We break it |
> Lawrenceville, GA | Guaranteed |
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Brian Kelly w3rv
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:54:23 -0000
From: "Jones" <Jones@no-email.net>
Subject: Packet Hackers
>I was refering to the technical ability required to start, not the
>content.
If you mean it's easier to put a CB rig on the air, I think CB could
actually be harder than 2 meters because the CB antenna is bigger. All else
is the same: Buy, plug, and play...
>My analogy to CB may not be the
>best but anyone can get a CB radio and an antenna and get started.
>Becuase it is so simple and not policed people take advantage of it and
>bring it down to its most crude level.
>Rob Kling
I'm not sure much of the above isn't true of ham radio also, at least
certain parts of ham radio. I think the real difference between ham radio
and CB is the test. People who put out a little effort seem to appreciate
the hobby more, and it shows in their on the air operation.
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 21:08:57 -0800
From: Rick KF6TYT <rheming@lightspeed.net>
Subject: Packet Hackers
Charles Brabham wrote:
> Less than ten years ago, a global digital network consisting entirely and
> solely of Amateur Radio links existed. This unique all-Ham network is now
> fragmented and in disarray, and this damage occured because of the lack of
> "anti-hacker" legislation to protect the digital Amateur Radio network from
> the attentions of "digital communications hobbyists", who are really very
> easy to spot. They are the ones who keep insisting that "speed" and
> "connectivity" are more important to Hams than using Radios.
The global digital network of Amateur Radio links is in disarray for the same
reason that the global digital network of landline BBS links is in disarray.
As
my call indicates, I'm new to Amateur Radio, but I helped create the BBS
industry and know it inside out (I founded Mustang Software/Wildcat! BBS).
The
BBS networks including Fido, Relay, etc. were upset not by regulation or lack
of it, but by simple migration of its users to better (read more fun)
technology. The BBS is dead, and packet, while not dead, is suffering from
the
arthritis of old technology just the same. For some it ust isn't much fun now
that it isn't bleeding edge.
I didn't enjoy watching the BBS get plowed by the net, but I certainly
wouldn't
have favored legislation to prevent it.
Now lets see if I can get this signature right. How do you guys say it...
73 DE Rick Heming
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Date: 29 Dec 1998 13:19:04 GMT
From: "peter" <palmfan1@hotmail.com>
Subject: packet software for palmIII?
hello friends,
where can i get some packetsoftware for the Palmtop-comuter Palm 3,
(PalmPilot)?
thank you...
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Date: 30 Dec 98 07:15:47 GMT
From: by2hit@qsl.NET (Zhen Leao)
Subject: Sound card program
I want to make a RTTY/Packet program in windows
using sound card interface.
But I don't know how to get data from the sound
card.Are there some OCX or VCL controls?
ps:I am using Delphi
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