[Coco] Ham Radio
john donaldson
jadonaldson at charter.net
Mon Nov 10 13:08:01 EST 2003
Now APRS seems to have taker over from Packet. When I
lived in Houston, Texas most of the packet networks had
very
little activity, but the APRS network was very busy and
growing.
I wonder if APRS could be programed to run on a COCO3
under OS9 or NitrOS9??
John Donaldson
AB8YZ
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:52:17 -0500
jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>
>
>That is KA9Q software.
>
>The last itme I used packet here in So. Fla it was a
>mess. About 8 yrs ago. Half the
>state was Rose, (northern part) and the other, (southern
>part) was Net One. just to
>get a connection from Ft. Lauderdale to Jacksonville
>required the right phase of the
>moon. Jupiter needed to be in Sagitarius and the wind had
>to be out of the south.
>Then you might have the connection for about an hour
>before some link in the
>middle failed. Typical hop was Ft. Lauderdale to Ft.
>Myers, to Sarasota, to
>Aracadia, to Orlando, to Ocala, to Palatka, then to
>Jacksonvile. The link from
>Arcadia to Orlando was the weakest one. At 430 Mhz it had
>the longest haul. Using
>400Mhz around the east central part of the state is
>limited. Cape Kennedy and
>Patrick AFB restricted radiated power. Essentially there
>was a wall in central
>Florida, Considerig MacDill AFB in Tampa, McCoy NAS in
>Orlando and the Cape
>on the east coast.. McCoy is gone now and McDill AFB has
>reduced importance so
>that should have freed up a lane to the north.
>
>One of these days I may just check again to see if the
>service is more reliable and
>better performance.
>
>james
>
>WA4BZJ
>
>
>
>On 10 Nov 2003 at 8:48, john donaldson wrote:
>
>> I used to run KN9Q (sp) on my MM/1 and had a ball
>> talking
>> to other hams using it and watching traffic over the
>> packet
>> network.
>>
>> John Donaldson
>> AB8YZ
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 22:15:32 -0800
>> <jimcox at miba51.com> wrote:
>> >John:
>> >
>> >Drop me a line some time, I'd like to learn more about
>> >packet radio.
>> >
>> >Jim
>> >
>> >On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:12:55 -0800
>> > "John Guin" <johnguin at hotmaill.com> wrote:
>> >>Hello all,
>> >>
>> >>I was reading Jim Cox's mail about not pursuing ham
>>radio
>> >>work with the Coco
>> >>in the Seattle/Bellevue area.
>> >>
>> >>I'm also a ham radio operator in the Seattle area, and
>> >>have had antenna
>> >>restrictions to deal with as well.
>> >>
>> >>Back when I had my packet radio set up, I used a 19"
>>long
>> >>antenna made from
>> >>#12 wire and got reception and transmission good
>>enough
>> >>from West Seattle to
>> >>the node closest to my condo - about 3 miles away. I
>> >>used my old 2 meter
>> >>handheld, and it worked very well. It only had one
>>watt
>> >>of transmitting
>> >>power. That's all you need to get started on packet
>> >>
>> >>IIRC, there was actually a packet article or two in
>>the
>> >>Rainbow, but I'm not
>> >>sure how useful the information would be. The packet
>> >>modem does most of the
>> >>work, though, so the easiest thing to do with a Coco
>>now
>> >>would be to use a
>> >>terminal program to log data. Since the Coco uses a
>> >>standard voltage on the
>> >>serial port, it is not as hard to connect the modem as
>> >>some other 8 bit
>> >>machines (Commodore, I'm talking to you).
>> >>
>> >>Anyway, the point of this letter is not to let antenna
>> >>restrictions keep you
>> >>off the air. Unless you were wanting to get involved
>> >>with Clover or some of
>> >>the other low frequency modes, a really cheap "coat
>> >>hanger" antenna sitting
>> >>in a window is all you really need.
>> >>
>> >>73,
>> >>John Guin
>> >>KB7ZJW
>> >>
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