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TCP-Group Digest Sun, 22 Sep 96 Volume 96 : Issue 198
Today's Topics:
Ham abilities
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Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 17:29:02 -0600
From: "Karl F. Larsen" <k5di@acca.nmsu.edu>
Subject: Ham abilities
As usual I will find something about packet radio to talk about for
an hour at the El Paso Hamfiesta next month. It's a problem since if I
mention net or nos the crowd gets to re-adjusting their seating...
I just finshed a VE testing session. We had 5 new Tech and 1 new
General made but no-one even came close to passing the 20 wpm code. And
several failed element 3b for the General. We are conducting no-code Tech
classes over one weekend. The pass rate is very good, like 80%. We are
getting ready to conduct a one weekend 5 wpm code class.
This class thing is new to ham radio I think. A weekend crash course
is good for the teachers who don't want to be busy tues and thru evenings
for 8 weeks. We get a lot of new people on the repeaters this way. Husband
to wife stuff. Very good for the hobby.
But how do you get people from this level interested in packet and
net? I have not figured out how to do it. The Internet providers come to
your home and install all you need and make sure it works. It's all top
quality software and after you have sailed the World Wide Web at 28,800 bps,
ham radio has little new to offer, and what it does have is hard to get
working.
So my program for an hour this year will be making a cable that runs
from my HT to a MFJ TNC. The purpose is to show how easy it is to do. And I
will demo the cheapest packet system called Baycom. I have 3 versions of
Baycom and 5 software packages that come from Pac Comm and TigerTronics and
home brew. Tomorrow we will find out if any but the homebrew work. At this
time we have not been able to get the commercial units to work. The claim
has been that DOS 5.0 is at fault...:)
I think my talk about Baycom will say "get a REAL TNC". But in
reality a guy who sticks with Baycom learns a lot about DOS and com ports
and Hardeware Interupts. If he doesn't just throw it into a corner and get
back to the WWW.
Husband and wife will find the money to get 2 HT's. But that is
about it. Of course a few upgrade and need to get an HF rig. And 1 in a
hundred says "what is net?".
73, de karl aka k5di
Karl F. Larsen ---- k5di@acca.nmsu.edu --- http://acca.nmsu.edu/~k5di/ -->
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