[Coco] Ham Radio SST and WEFAX

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

I have several of the early HAM radio programs by Clay Abrams for SST,
WEFAX, Morse code to text and ... The reason I got a CoCo 2, but never did
anything  with it.

It predated the CoCo 3 so a higher resolution display board was required for
the CoCo 2 (Never built, may have parts, better to recode for CC3).

I also have Ham Radio magazines listing a ton of programs for the CoCo, the
CoCo was prime for Hams those years. (I do not have the programs)

Clay Abrams was hell on a jet plane, he said at one meeting that he had just
received "FLEX" and had disassembled, recoded it to be much smaller, faster
and would now do so much more. You would think that he was blowing steam,
but he kept showing up with new hardware that worked and demonstrated that
he had done what he said he had done.

-- 

Stephen H. Fischer <sfischer1 at mindspring.com>

> It was in the February 1985 issue, pages 42-55.
> I didn't have a shortwave radio, but a co-worker who was a radio
> amateur noted that WEFAX used the same signalling scheme as his
> slow-scan TV, so I got him to make me an audio tape of one of
> his SSTV sessions for testing. Once I got the tape recorder's
> audio signal from inside the CoCo interfaced correctly, I was
> able to "receive" a picture of him sitting in front of his rig.
> Considering the number of times the signal was copied, I think
> it did extremely well. So, shortwave ham SSTV could be another
> possible source if anyone is still doing that anymore.
>
> Rodney