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[Jeff Cotten]

I think so!  I'll try to look for it next time I'm over there :)

I'm unfortunately leaving next week for a 2 week vacation, so it will be a
hot minute before I can interact with the equipment again :)

On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Bruce Campbell <phillybruce at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> Have you seen anything that looks like this around the shack?
> http://www.geocities.jp/tnc_gallery/mfj70b_1.jpg
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Bruce Campbell <phillybruce at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> There was an AX-25 TNC around there at one time. You would have all that
>> you need for a packet station.
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Kris Kirby <kris at catonic.us> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 1 Oct 2016, Bruce Campbell wrote:
>>> > do you know there history?
>>>
>>> WA4DXP-1 was HSVN on 145.01, WA4DXP-5 was HSVN on 145.65, both Alinco
>>> DR-1200s; I believe WA4DXP-6 was 433.8 MHz using an RCA radio. Or
>>> WA4DXP-6 was 145.65, and WA4DXP-5 was something else...
>>>
>>> K4IQU (Dave Light) was the callsign of 146.94/34 before it had the N4HSV
>>> callsign on it. The BBS (K4BFT/K4BFT-1) had the club call as well.
>>>
>>> 144.97, 145.01, 145.05, and 145.09 were all used for 1200 bps AX.25
>>> packet radio, along with 145.65. 147.565 was used for 9600 bps packet.
>>> 433.8 was 2400 bps. The maximum common rate that fits in a voice channel
>>> without 'tricks' was 2400 bps. Motorola liked 3,600 Hz using MSK for
>>> trunking. 9600 bps required access to the modulator and discriminator
>>> because 9.6KHz was outside of the audio system's 300 - 4 KHz bandwidth.
>>>
>>> 1200 bps was the shipping data rate of the TAPR TNC2; 2400 bps and 9600
>>> bps required modems be installed on a 20-pin connector in the TNC2. MFJ
>>> must have sold 10,000 of those TNC2 clones.
>>>
>>> I refer to AX.25 1200-9600 bps as "802.11 dot slow."
>>>
>>> But then again, I still have my KPC-9612.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kris Kirby, KE4AHR
>>> Disinformation Architect, Systems Mangler, & Network Mismanager
>>>
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