[Kantronics] Packet software for Kantronics KAM Plus

[Vic Culver]

Jonathan, if you ever find some things that works well perhaps you would
share the information with me (or the list).  I understand your reluctance
to pay the big bucks to register their software, as I'm feeling very
uncharitable toward Kantronics after sinking big bucks into their KAM and
then the PLUS upgrade, only to find that they can't or won't support the KAM
boards if they should go belly up, as mine seems to have done.  I feel as if
a fraud has been perpetrated against me, but then, I guess in business today
nobody has to be responsible for anything they do.  I may find a unit
someday that somebody doesn't want and maybe I can patch things up that way.

To answer your question specifically:  I was using MSYS as an all around BBS
and NODE software.  It is a little touchy to get set up, runs in KISS mode,
but works quite well once you get it dialed in.  I could recommend that as
good software to you if you want to maintain a full featured machine.  But
I'm now looking for something that I can use simply as a 'dial up' type
program to connect to machines other people are supporting, as in AFMARS and
VA RACES, Inc. type emergency communications.  MSYS will work that way, but
it is not 'elegant.'
Good luck.  Vic Culver, W4VIC/AFA2KS