The people at AES were good to their word and after 2 weeks
of UPS to and from me, I have another MFJ 1276 Packet Pactor
controller and it works fine on pactor. I have called a couple more
guys on 20 meters and had chats and have sent mail via AA5BJ's system
which I can hit on 40 meters.
When someone gives you a frequency of a server they give you
the "Mark" frequency. This is the center frequency if there is zero
offset due to afsk or other factors. So I got the frequency to use on
40 meters as 7073 kHz so I am using afsk that is centered about 2.1
kHz away from the indicated dial frequency. Since I use lower
sideband I set my dial at 7075.1 kHz to call AA5BJ and this works
fine.
Pactor is hard on your transmitter. I use a TS-50 which is a
very small radio and the cooling fans are on all the time when doing
pactor. So far so good. No blown transistors. But I run the rig at 50
watts instead of the 100 watts max.
I'm using minicom as my terminal unit to write to and read
pactor and it works fine. This is designed to be a telephone terminal
so I have erased all telephone setup and it works with pactor just
fine. I capture all I'm doing with L and it makes interesting reading
later on. Minicom has ways to send canned messages. So I can have my
station data in 1 file and send it whenever I want to
Everything considered the MFJ 1276 is a good unit for pactor
and if you have any interest in this mode it's a cheap way to get on
the air.
Best wishes
- Karl F. Larsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505) 524-3303 -
