According to Leszek A. Szczepanowski: While burning my CPU. > This message was getting way to long so i have snipped a lot of it out, i would imagen you all know what its all about. > Ok, so let's made all home-made and don't let people > buy ready transceivers like Kenwood, Icom etc. There > is like CB in your meaning. What about all these hams > buying ready transceivers and components like PA's, > baycom modems and more? Are they CB entusiasts ? > No! So if I can buy new HF radio in my store, > why can not highspeed packet radio link? Are there > any differenties? :) Because the "cost" would be sky high, as it would HAVE to be a vaiable propersition for a commercial vendor to do it. I base that on one fact, the amount of units sold would be very small indeed, the common feeling in general is packet radio is just for connecting to a BBS system and talking to locals. thats what the "end user" says and indeed does here in this area at least. > > And what to do with measurement equipment, if there no > publically published PCBs files of for example WBFM 70cm > radio? What to do with JPG's I found on Hardware Info Desk > WWW page ? Poor quality, poor resolution... I can made > a radio (even without knowlegde of electronics) if I have > PCB images for Atrax, OrCAD or other software for developing > PCBs and shemes. Well i dont know what site you got your files from then, because after a little editing we in this area have made PCB's and started building the stuff, the resulting PCB's are in no way perfect but they sure are useable. > > Ok, if there is very difficult to make a kit, then it would > be good to publish more complex descriptions about how to > mount the radio, list of elements (no, on the www there is > no list of elements of any projects - only JPG's exists, > but a lot of elements descriptions are unreadable due to > poor resolution of JPG file.). And at the end, description > of tuning should be placed on the www. All the Hardware Info > Desk pages are for engineers, specialists, not for common > amateurs. So my conclusion is (and this is to S5 highspeed > packet authors): publish PCB files with description for > holes, full list of elements and description how to tune > the radio up to work. Even the best project is not usable, > if people can't easily reproduce it. Dot. :) That is all included in the documentation we have here, i have drilled all the holes, solerded components etc, the only thing thats NOT included (or it was not at the time) is the coil spesifications for the 70 cms radio, the chap who wrote all the text sent us by post (or was it piegion post) all the details. > > Listen: I can produce 1k2, 2k4 and 9k6 radio modems and > I know about how to connect it all together because it > is very well documented. There are tons of publications > for this kind of modems or radios. 2m,70cm of course. > Here in Poland, speed of 38400 is currently in people's > dreams, they don't know how to "touch" this. With more > complex instructions highspeed packet radio probably > faster come to Poland and other near countries :) I am sorry to say you need to look again at the S5 stuff, it IS well documented (or was) and is "enought" even for someone like me to understand and build. I did not have any electrical tuition at school, i was a truck driver for 25 years, i was determined to become a ham and i am also more determined to build my own stuff. I am also determined to master Linux, its the attitude you take which will get "you results". > > P.S. Of course always if I write long english text, I > want to sorry for my terrible bad english :) > -- > -------------------------------------- > | Leszek A. Szczepanowski, SQ9ANR. | > | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | Ampr-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > -------------------------------------- > > -- Regards Richard. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
