--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 205 RTTY Ref: C3300004 Date: 02/27/95 From: JOHN STEIN Time: 11:15am \/To: ALAN SHEETS (Read 7 times) Subj: Re: RTTY -=> Quoting Alan Sheets to John Stein <=- > Hi there! Just curious but does one need to have an amatuer radio > license > to recieve rtty and faxes with out transmitting? I'm sure this is > probably > a stupid question but I do not have a license yet but I'm really > interested > in this stuff. I also saw a message a little while back about using > the > soundblaster to decode rtty. What sort of equipment does one need > to get > into this hobby? Also is it possible to recieve sattelite images > with out > using a sattelite dish or is there some special equipment needed for > this > as well? AS> To continue my last message (needed to logoff before the mail dump.): AS> YOu can also get sat. pics. directly off the birds. For low earth AS> orbiters, you can interface a 137mHz scanner to a computer. FOr jthe AS> geostationalry sats, you also need a 1691 mHz to 137 mHz downconverter AS> and a directional antenna. A company called Software Systems AS> COnsulting has everything you need to do SW or HF DX'ing, and they AS> even have a BBS you can call. Let me know if you're interested, and AS> I'll forward the info to you. AS> Alan Sheets AS> -!- FLAME v1.1 AS> ! Origin: Your Ham Connection (1:104/114) Thank you! Yes I am most definitely interested in any information that you could give me. John Stein ... RAM DISK is NOT an installation procedure! --- GEcho+ "The Best":-) * Origin: -=[GENESIS]=- VIA SATELLITE & 28.8 (406)761-2434 (1:3400/2) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 205 RTTY Ref: C3300005 Date: 02/25/95 From: JACK PAGEL Time: 09:19pm \/To: ALL (Read 7 times) Subj: CP-1 Mod I would like to talk to others that have made the TTY to RS-232 mod. on the AEA CP-1. I have gotten the service bulletin from AEA showing a substitution for the 15150 and 15152 chips, using 1488 and 1489. I have put the small board together, and installed the appropriate resistors, the diode and Q12. I did get it to work on receive, but it does'nt switch to transmit. With Q12 in line, it switches in and out of transmit when receiving strong signals. Alot like VOX kicking in and out. With R124 (47k) shorted, it stays stable enough to receive. I have to use a 9-pin connector to hook it up to the computer, and I don't know the pin-out of those. I do know the pin-out for the 25 Db. I used pins 1-8 plus pin 20, then used the same pins in the same order on the 9-pin, switching 20 for 9. I have a feeling this is were my problem is. So if anyone has done that modification, or knows the pin-out of the 9-pin D-subs. I sure would like to get in touch with you. Thanks. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: * M I B B S * Medford, WI (715)748-4614 USR-DS 28.8 (1:238/200) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 205 RTTY Ref: C3400000 Date: 02/25/95 From: JACK PAGEL Time: 09:19pm \/To: ALL (Read 7 times) Subj: CP-1 Mod I would like to talk to others that have made the TTY to RS-232 mod. on the AEA CP-1. I have gotten the service bulletin from AEA showing a substitution for the 15150 and 15152 chips, using 1488 and 1489. I have put the small board together, and installed the appropriate resistors, the diode and Q12. I did get it to work on receive, but it does'nt switch to transmit. With Q12 in line, it switches in and out of transmit when receiving strong signals. Alot like VOX kicking in and out. With R124 (47k) shorted, it stays stable enough to receive. I have to use a 9-pin connector to hook it up to the computer, and I don't know the pin-out of those. I do know the pin-out for the 25 Db. I used pins 1-8 plus pin 20, then used the same pins in the same order on the 9-pin, switching 20 for 9. I have a feeling this is were my problem is. So if anyone has done that modification, or knows the pin-out of the 9-pin D-subs. I sure would like to get in touch with you. Thanks. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: * M I B B S * Medford, WI (715)748-4614 USR-DS 28.8 (1:238/200) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 205 RTTY Ref: C3400001 Date: 02/25/95 From: JACK PAGEL Time: 09:19pm \/To: ALL (Read 7 times) Subj: CP-1 Mod I would like to talk to others that have made the TTY to RS-232 mod. on the AEA CP-1. I have gotten the service bulletin from AEA showing a substitution for the 15150 and 15152 chips, using 1488 and 1489. I have put the small board together, and installed the appropriate resistors, the diode and Q12. I did get it to work on receive, but it does'nt switch to transmit. With Q12 in line, it switches in and out of transmit when receiving strong signals. Alot like VOX kicking in and out. With R124 (47k) shorted, it stays stable enough to receive. I have to use a 9-pin connector to hook it up to the computer, and I don't know the pin-out of those. I do know the pin-out for the 25 Db. I used pins 1-8 plus pin 20, then used the same pins in the same order on the 9-pin, switching 20 for 9. I have a feeling this is were my problem is. So if anyone has done that modification, or knows the pin-out of the 9-pin D-subs. I sure would like to get in touch with you. Thanks. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: * M I B B S * Medford, WI (715)748-4614 USR-DS 28.8 (1:238/200) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 205 RTTY Ref: C3400002 Date: 02/25/95 From: JACK PAGEL Time: 09:19pm \/To: ALL (Read 8 times) Subj: CP-1 Mod I would like to talk to others that have made the TTY to RS-232 mod. on the AEA CP-1. I have gotten the service bulletin from AEA showing a substitution for the 15150 and 15152 chips, using 1488 and 1489. I have put the small board together, and installed the appropriate resistors, the diode and Q12. I did get it to work on receive, but it does'nt switch to transmit. With Q12 in line, it switches in and out of transmit when receiving strong signals. Alot like VOX kicking in and out. With R124 (47k) shorted, it stays stable enough to receive. I have to use a 9-pin connector to hook it up to the computer, and I don't know the pin-out of those. I do know the pin-out for the 25 Db. I used pins 1-8 plus pin 20, then used the same pins in the same order on the 9-pin, switching 20 for 9. I have a feeling this is were my problem is. So if anyone has done that modification, or knows the pin-out of the 9-pin D-subs. I sure would like to get in touch with you. Thanks. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: * M I B B S * Medford, WI (715)748-4614 USR-DS 28.8 (1:238/200) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 205 RTTY Ref: C3400003 Date: 02/25/95 From: JACK PAGEL Time: 09:19pm \/To: ALL (Read 8 times) Subj: CP-1 Mod I would like to talk to others that have made the TTY to RS-232 mod. on the AEA CP-1. I have gotten the service bulletin from AEA showing a substitution for the 15150 and 15152 chips, using 1488 and 1489. I have put the small board together, and installed the appropriate resistors, the diode and Q12. I did get it to work on receive, but it does'nt switch to transmit. With Q12 in line, it switches in and out of transmit when receiving strong signals. Alot like VOX kicking in and out. With R124 (47k) shorted, it stays stable enough to receive. I have to use a 9-pin connector to hook it up to the computer, and I don't know the pin-out of those. I do know the pin-out for the 25 Db. I used pins 1-8 plus pin 20, then used the same pins in the same order on the 9-pin, switching 20 for 9. I have a feeling this is were my problem is. So if anyone has done that modification, or knows the pin-out of the 9-pin D-subs. I sure would like to get in touch with you. Thanks. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: * M I B B S * Medford, WI (715)748-4614 USR-DS 28.8 (1:238/200) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 205 RTTY Ref: C3400004 Date: 02/25/95 From: JACK PAGEL Time: 09:19pm \/To: ALL (Read 8 times) Subj: CP-1 Mod I would like to talk to others that have made the TTY to RS-232 mod. on the AEA CP-1. I have gotten the service bulletin from AEA showing a substitution for the 15150 and 15152 chips, using 1488 and 1489. I have put the small board together, and installed the appropriate resistors, the diode and Q12. I did get it to work on receive, but it does'nt switch to transmit. With Q12 in line, it switches in and out of transmit when receiving strong signals. Alot like VOX kicking in and out. With R124 (47k) shorted, it stays stable enough to receive. I have to use a 9-pin connector to hook it up to the computer, and I don't know the pin-out of those. I do know the pin-out for the 25 Db. I used pins 1-8 plus pin 20, then used the same pins in the same order on the 9-pin, switching 20 for 9. I have a feeling this is were my problem is. So if anyone has done that modification, or knows the pin-out of the 9-pin D-subs. I sure would like to get in touch with you. Thanks. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: * M I B B S * Medford, WI (715)748-4614 USR-DS 28.8 (1:238/200) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 205 RTTY Ref: C3500000 Date: 02/25/95 From: JACK PAGEL Time: 09:19pm \/To: ALL (Read 8 times) Subj: CP-1 Mod I would like to talk to others that have made the TTY to RS-232 mod. on the AEA CP-1. I have gotten the service bulletin from AEA showing a substitution for the 15150 and 15152 chips, using 1488 and 1489. I have put the small board together, and installed the appropriate resistors, the diode and Q12. I did get it to work on receive, but it does'nt switch to transmit. With Q12 in line, it switches in and out of transmit when receiving strong signals. Alot like VOX kicking in and out. With R124 (47k) shorted, it stays stable enough to receive. I have to use a 9-pin connector to hook it up to the computer, and I don't know the pin-out of those. I do know the pin-out for the 25 Db. I used pins 1-8 plus pin 20, then used the same pins in the same order on the 9-pin, switching 20 for 9. I have a feeling this is were my problem is. So if anyone has done that modification, or knows the pin-out of the 9-pin D-subs. I sure would like to get in touch with you. Thanks. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: * M I B B S * Medford, WI (715)748-4614 USR-DS 28.8 (1:238/200) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 205 RTTY Ref: C3500001 Date: 02/28/95 From: REID KELLY Time: 10:18am \/To: ROY WICK (Read 8 times) Subj: SCANCAT & M8000 - HELP ! -=> Quoting Roy Wick to All: Subject SCANCAT & M8000 - HELP !<=- -=>02-24-95 21:09<=- RW> As I understand it, there is way to use Scancat and a Universal M8000 RW> decoder in unison such that the output from the decoder will feed to RW> the Scancat program as text input. Howdy Roy, long time no type at! Anyway to answer your question the answer is YES! I have been using Scancat and Scancat Pro for a few years and simply love it. I use a PK232MBX for digital decoding from within Scancat. You can use your M8000 the same way. RW> I have three questions regarding this setup. RW> 1) What is the cable configuration? See Below. RW> ie: do I simply connect from the M8000 printer output to the RW> serial 1 input of my computer NO, leave your printer connected to parellel LPT, This way you can print as well as see the incoming text to screen from within scancat. This would depend if your M8000 can print and send text to screen at the same time? What Scancat does is provide a DUMB TERMINAL with extra features! From the Dumb terminal you can access your decoder through manual commands. Also you can set up macros from within scancat to help with this. Basically how this works is you load Scancat for scanning and start scanning untill you find something interesting. Then touch your space bar to stop the scanning process. Next hit your C key, and you will drop to the dumb terminal where you can access your M8000 manually. You can just watch text on screen or you can turn on printing by hitting Alt-P to print while traffic is coming in. Also you can turn on save to disk by hitting Alt-S(pool) This way you can save to disk, print out and watch traffic all at the same time! You can start and stop printing and spooler at anytime! RW> (I don't think I'm supposed to be use the AUX from the M8000) RW> 2) Is it a standard plug configuration or do I need to do re-wiring? RW> 3) What is the com setting for the TNC interface setting in scancat? RW> ie:manual quotes "COM1:xxxx,n,8,1,cs,ds where xxxx = m7000's baud RW> rate. I've tried 1200,2400, and 4800 but still not getting the RW> output from the m8000 to register on Scancat. RW> Any help would be greatly appreciated. RW> Roy Lets see now where do I begin . Roy I do not know if you are running a mouse on your computer or not I imagine you are and will write to address this and how to get around this below. If you are using a mouse it is accessing one of your com ports and you probably only have 2 com ports. You can not do two things at once on the same com port! In this case your mouse is using one so you only have one left. I had the same problem until I added 2 more comm ports so that now I have 4. Anyway to get around this go out an buy yourself an A/B switch so you can easily switch serial cables by a switch. (I have used an A/B/C/D switch which gives me more options then an A/B Switch, this allows me to have my TNC, Scancat Pro, FAX demodulator and one spare for testing new goodies or my new M8000 sometime in the future). Anyway to setup Scancat with an A/B switch first you need to of course get the switch (about $15) get one Serial Cable to connect to your serial com port on one end and on the other end you connect it to the A/B switch. Get 2 more serial cables (make sure the ends all match both the switch and the devices you are going to connect them to so that you only make one trip when buying the switch and cables ;-) male verses female ) After you have this new hardware just connect the input of the switch to your serial comm port, connect the A to your rigs interface and connect the B to your M8000. Now your all set! Scancat Pro allows you to select the communications parimetors by hitting < G > for Interface Parameters, mine is set to COM1:9600,N,8,1 for my R-71 because I set up the dip switches on the Icom internal Icom UX-14 board to work at these settings. I do not know which rig your using or what it is set up for, for the rig to computer interface settings. My suggestion is for you to set the rigs settings as high as you can which will help for increasing scanning speeds. Then just make sure that Scancat's settings are the same! Notice also that your set to COM 1 here! Hit enter and you will then be asked Set T N C Interface - Present setting is : COM1:9600,N,8,1 ; My packratt is also set up to run at 9600 with these settings yours may be different? NOTE: set up both your rig interface and your decoder settings for the same comm port. After everything is all set up set the A/B switch to A. Load Scancat! You should now be able to load and run Scancat normally. At anytime you find interesting traffic just hit your space bar to stop scanning. Next hit C for the terminal and when you go into the terminal just switch the A/B to B. Now your accessing your M8000! If you wish to go back to Scancat for any reason FIRST turn your A/B back to A (you can experiment here as to what works best for you) Worst case senario is you will forget to switch back to A when you resume scanning and you get error messages ). IF so just switch back to A. If you are already set on a freq. with digital traffic with your rig and do not want to access the scanning modes in scancat just hit C for < C > Quick Term Communication Program (you will go to the dumb terminal and not into scanning mode) then turn the A/B switch to B and you can then access your M8000 right away. If you wish to return to Scancat scanning mode switch the A/B back to A and hit your escape key. then enter < A > for Radio Scanning Selections. If I can help you further please let me know Roy? 73 de Reid, ... (hic)ICOM Radio (hic)TNC (hic)Scancat program * My computer is drunk . ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: The CatWalk BBS Davie, Fl 305-370-3528 USR V.EveryThing (1:369/8) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 205 RTTY Ref: C3500002 Date: 02/25/95 From: JACK PAGEL Time: 09:19pm \/To: ALL (Read 8 times) Subj: CP-1 Mod I would like to talk to others that have made the TTY to RS-232 mod. on the AEA CP-1. I have gotten the service bulletin from AEA showing a substitution for the 15150 and 15152 chips, using 1488 and 1489. I have put the small board together, and installed the appropriate resistors, the diode and Q12. I did get it to work on receive, but it does'nt switch to transmit. With Q12 in line, it switches in and out of transmit when receiving strong signals. Alot like VOX kicking in and out. With R124 (47k) shorted, it stays stable enough to receive. I have to use a 9-pin connector to hook it up to the computer, and I don't know the pin-out of those. I do know the pin-out for the 25 Db. I used pins 1-8 plus pin 20, then used the same pins in the same order on the 9-pin, switching 20 for 9. I have a feeling this is were my problem is. So if anyone has done that modification, or knows the pin-out of the 9-pin D-subs. I sure would like to get in touch with you. Thanks. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: * M I B B S * Medford, WI (715)748-4614 USR-DS 28.8 (1:238/200)