That's a nice wee setup you have there, I'd forgot about these little net books. Again as you say it's the sort of thing you could have in a disaster area or expedition, even a 703 or 706 with gel cells in a small flight case with perhaps even solar panels on the outside to trickle charge the battery.
MM0TOB -------Original Message------- From: Per Date: 15/01/2010 13:32:15 To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] portable HF digital in the radio Re: Haiti a test for emcomms Interesting subject, here is my portable setup: http://twitpic.com/y37fm Its an eee 901 pc, an FT-817ND and a soundcard interface. I have a much smaller interface but I dont have a picture showing that. With this setup I can work: - PSKmail using jpskmail (PSK500 robust really flies) and - fldigi, lots of modes there - xastir for packet radio through - soundmodem, uses the soundcard and creates a virtual kiss tnc (or ax25 ip) Of course that kiss interface can be used for other things besides aprs (fbb perhaps). With the smaller interface its basically a netbook and an FT-817ND (or 897 if I have power enough). A TNC can be nice but its also nice not to have to bring it, power supply, cables etc.. 73 de Per, sm0rwo From: aa777888athotmaildotcom <aa777...@hotmail.com> To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, January 15, 2010 1:01:19 PM Subject: [digitalradio] portable HF digital in the radio Re: Haiti a test for emcomms This sounds fairly complex. Why not just use a netbook? Volume-wise it's about the same if not better after all the cables and "terminals" are considered and if you have enough power to run digital (high duty cycle) on the radio you have enough for the netbook. --- In digitalradio@ yahoogroups. com, "sholtofish" <sho...@...> wrote: > > > There is the NUE-PSK device which now supports RTTY in addition to PSK31. You still need a keyboard however. > > In my opinion a better device is the Kantronics KAM XL or SCS PTC II. > > The Kantronics is much cheaper than the SCS and offers some features even the Pactor-II/III modems don't. > > A used KAM XL is a good investment because it is flash upgradable via a free download on Kantronics website - no messing with expensive ROMs. > > It offers (via a terminal) PSK-31, RTTY, ASCII, Pactor-1, AMTOR & G-TOR in addition to it being a dual port Packet switch (up to 9K6). > > It's perfectly possible to run a "TheNet" compatible node at the same time as a multiuser BBS with 480KB of non volatile storage. It is basically a BBS/Node in a box that only consumes about 120mA at 12v. > > You can also link the ports to provide VHF<>HF switching. It also has a RTC chip so you don't have to remember to set the date every time you boot up which is important for message handling. > > If you couple this with a cheap serial terminal - perhaps the Tandy WP-2 wordprocessor" which provides an 80 column lcd display and can happily run on a couple of AA cells for days (available on eBay for peanuts) then you have a real low power system which is very usable. > > You could run a traffic BBS on VHF and a Pactor-1 (or better yet G-Tor) link on HF. > > The PSK31 takes a little getting used to if you normally use a waterfall but it is a very sensitive implementation and works very well. > > I believe the SCS modems have a multiuser BBS too and of course Pactor-II and Pactor-III if you can afford it but that is the real catch, these things run around $1000 or more even second hand. > > You can often find a KAM XL for around $250-$350 on eBay. A radio cable from Buxcomm is about $25. > > 73 > > Sholto > K7TMG >
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