[amsat-bb] Thoughts on ISS packet switch back to 145.825 MHz (long)

[w4upd]

I have a number of communication programs that can talk to serial ports, 
TCP, etc. As far as I know they were all free. I have an olde DSP2232 
TNC that I used in the 'old' days when I was the South East area 
Satgate. It has full duplex packet capabilities among others. Been using 
it lately for QRP (5 watts) RTTY. The programs I have are:

HyperterminalPrivatge, K95g (Kermit), Putty, Realterm, TeraTerm, and 
Termite V3.2. Each has their own advantages. I use TeraTerm the most. I 
like that it can have cut and paste data inserted i n the window. I 
believe it also allows you to send a file as well.

Most of them are a matter of taste. K95 has a lot of built-ins but a bit 
harder to use.

Reid, W4UPD


On 4/16/2017 9:46 AM, JoAnne K9JKM wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> > What software would you run with your hardware TNC ? Wouldn't
> > UISS still need agw or direwolf, etc?
>
> I used the terminal emulator program called MFJCOM that MFJ used to 
> sell with their TNC back in the 1990's. It came on 5.25 disk but I 
> have a copy of it on an old computer hard drive ... good thing I'm an 
> electronics hoarder. I still haven't tossed out PC's from the 1990's :-)
>
> The window MFJCOM software runs in is the command line interface. It 
> pretty much looks like the window you get with the windows 'Run' 
> command. Plain ascii, not much help for commands, no mouse, etc. When 
> MFJCOM comes up in the usual TNC 'cmd:' mode you can send the setup 
> and operating commands to the TNC. Once setup in the cmd; mode you 
> issue a 'CONVERS' command to enter the UI mode. A ctrl-c gets you out 
> of CONVERS and back to cmd;
>
> My article in the AMSAT Journal has a table showing the top dozen or 
> so TNC commands useful for configuring a hardware TNC for operation 
> with ARISS packet.
>
> I believe there would be lots of terminal emulator programs out there 
> that get the job done. Running in this basic mode I'm talking directly 
> to the TNC hardware. What the TNC receives is what I'd see directly in 
> the terminal emulator window.
>
> I still have the hardware TNC project on my to-do list. Before I go so 
> far as trying to bring up a 20 year old PC box I think I'll take 
> Alan's advice and try Direwolf. Alan mentioned that Direwolf has some 
> of the commands I've been missing via UISS - like PASSALL and ways to 
> display some of the additional protocol.
>
> Now that I think about it, I have an old laptop with dual-boot linux 
> and windows on it which also has a 'real' RS-232 port on it - I could 
> see how linux based terminal emulators work too. Heh, the to-do list 
> just got longer over here :-)
>