[Packet] FWD: PDA set up?
john
johnmb at nc.rr.com
Tue Apr 3 15:06:11 EDT 2007
I have a program (not by me!) running that copies PSK31 and CW on a
PocketPC PDA..... it works just by pointing the PDA mic to the speaker of
the receiver. It works remarkably well, but I realize this is neither the
mode nor the duplex functionality you're looking for.
Good luck!
John K5MO
At 12:20 PM 4/3/2007, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson wrote:
>On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 05:55 -0700, Kenneth Stringham wrote:
> > I received this from another forum. I hope someone
> > here can help.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > I have been doing some research into packet and the
> > Palm PDA, and I
> > have not had any luck yet.
> >
> > Are there applications available to emulate a TNC with
> > just a Palm
> >
> > PDA? Years ago I used an old Commodore64 and a small
> > packet modem to
> > attach to my radio to do packet. It worked great. So I
> > am
> > speculating that someone would have invented a similar
> > system for a
> > PDA.
> >
> > I will look further, but I am looking for any
> > references that folks
> > can point me to.
> >
> > N1KCG
> > Kevin
> >
> >
> >
> >
>Its harder to do machine code with no easy programming interface and no
>direct hardware interface. The C-64 with external modem that was just a
>zero crossing detector (Baycom) took machine code to work the audio
>processing. On the other hand some PDA (and there are several brands and
>models with totally incompatible OS and machine codes) have a RS-232
>serial port and that can run a standard TNC and there have been a few as
>small as the PDA.
>--
>73, Jerry, K0CQ,
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