[FADCA] Testing Testing Testing at Clermont (> 500 ft amsl)

[bud thompson]

Deltona
Friday Jan 23 1725E

Yes, we could use ROSE EPROM's, but have not established a quick facility
for getting them configured/burned as we are concentrating on the DOS
computer-based FPAC scheme.  Within two weeks we'll have a four-port FPAC
computer running at Clermont - with at least three radio ports- maybe the
fourth if we have a UHF 9.6kb link SW to Tampa!  (By the way- it was only
until I got a road map of the whole peninsula today that I realized that the
TBAY area is W 45 degrees S from Clermont not due West!  Dan KA0OXH ( the
sponsor and Madman behind the Clermont site) may have known that when he put
the UHF beams in place this week - if not, we'll fix that next week.

Yes, a portable/mobile FPAC switch  with at least three ports will be a good
thing for EMCOMMs as well as testing.  I plan on including such capability
in my Yellow Thingy. In the Seminole County ARES group (south of Volusia
County where I live) I'm on an ARES/RACES Jump Team for a MAC Tower
deployment , sponsored by the Forest Service.  When the MAC Tower is
deployed it has a repeater and 40 HTs for tactical use on Forest Service
channels.  The tower is 100 ft agl... and we can put a dual band plastic
stick on it for ham vhf/uhf use..... do I need to say more?

I am not aware of a DOS tie with USB! However - do not be discouraged...
within 24 months - none of this will look the same... Most will be Bill
Gates/MS OS-related.... Ole CPM/DOS/Win3.1/Win95/Win98/LINUX stalwarts may
not like it but we have the services of some Major Programmers...and must
take advantage of that!

bud N0IA



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <wchast@utilpart.com>
To: <budt@cfl.rr.com>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 13:16
Subject: RE: [FADCA] Testing Testing Testing at Clermont (> 500 ft amsl)


> Bud,
> You could put some ROSE eproms in that X1-J box and then we would have
> a network compatible device to test against.
>
> I want to build a laptop based FPAC switch with 2-4 ports on it for
> just exactly that sort of thing, then all you do is change the config
> files when you deploy it, not only that you can then add it to the
> neighbor switches and let everyone test, when you are finally satisfied
> you then replace it with a fixed device, keep the old files intact and
> set up the portable elsewhere.
>
> I think the answer is probably a laptop FPAC device with two ports on
> it, if we can get USB to work then we can add more ports.
>
> But at least we have something to test against, lets see how it goes,
> hope that we can hit it from here as that would be our east west path
> out of TPA.
>