[Clover] For Sale: HAL P38 - Clover, RTTY, Pactor, AMTOR

[Peter Klein]

I have a HAL P38 HF modem card for sale, including manual and current HAL 
software on diskette.  The P38 supports Clover, RTTY, Pactor-II, and 
AMTOR.  The card works well.  I'm selling it because my interests have 
changed.  Price:  $175.00  If you don't like the price, make me a 
reasonable offer.  Feel free to email me with questions.

You can see a picture of the actual card and manual I'm selling 
at:  http://www.2alpha.com/~pklein/forsale/p38.jpg   For more details about 
the unit, see the HAL web site at:  http://www.halcomm.com/p38.htm.  For 
detailed specs, see the following PDF file: http://www.halcomm.com/docs/p38.pdf

Why should you buy a dedicated HF modem when there is so much PC sound card 
software available for free?  It depends on the modes you're interested 
in.  Sound card software supports Baudot RTTY, PSK31 and some exotic newer 
modes.  But for "chirp" modes like Pactor and Amtor where two stations 
"connect" and do back-and-forth error correction, you need dedicated 
hardware.  HAL-made hardware is the only way to get on Clover.

The P38 is a full-sized ISA card that fits inside your PC.  Your machine 
must have a 16-bit ISA slot, but the card does *not* use an interrupt 
(IRQ).  This makes set-up much simpler than with most ISA cards these 
days.  All signal processing is done on the P38, so it does not require a 
superpowered PC.  It connects to your radio using three standard RCA phono 
jacks.

The P38 is supported by commercial terminal programs such as XPWin, W0RLI, 
WINLINK, WriteLog, XPWARE, EZTERM and RTTY by WF1B, as well as HAL's own 
software (included).  The P38 works under DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 9x and 
ME.   The HAL software runs beautifully in a DOS window under Windows, and 
will multitask even on modestly-powered PCs.

The P38 is still made and supported by HAL.  Software updates are available 
at: http://www.halcomm.com/downloads.htm.

73,
--Peter, KD7MW
Seattle, WA