At 09:35 PM 6/24/2008, you wrote (in part):
Along with the great majority of digital oriented hams, I prefer sound
card modes and have no plans to move back toward legacy hardware.
Would you not say that having the, as you put it legacy hardware
and not using it would be a step backwards as
John,
I have always felt that the wisest thing is for each ham to decide for
themselves what kind of operating they want to do. If they have legacy
hardware, they may very well want to continue to use it. I used to work
Amtor and Pactor and especially Clover II, but that was quite a few
years
I have been trying to use the HFN system for some time now. I have had
minimal success with connecting to more distant stations, however, I
have had no luck with stations within NVIS range.
After many attempts over many days, I contacted the two closest stations
to my location, (via regular
Hello Rick,
Ok, lets see if we can steer you to some good future ALE contacts.
As you know, a sound card has to measure up to the digital task it is being
tasked to perform. Not all do. That topic I will leave to others that have
covered this so well in the past on different forms many times.
The HFlinknet is an attempt to provide e-mail capability over HF using
the existing open ALE protocols. The initial phase has a group testing
SMS messaging to work out the bugs. A key concept is interoperability,
even with the closed Winlink2000 system and ability to work with
hardware and
