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Heh...you'll have to give me the "Anton Squeegee" reference again....forgot the
ref. for that, but it rings a bell. Also, lovely use of Latin...who said it
was dead??

snicker Thank you! I was wondering if someone would ask me about
that. Think 'Firesign Theater.' More specifically, their latest album
'All Things Firesign.' There's a track on there called "Everything You
Know Is Wrong!" You'll need to listen to it to understand where I came
up with Anton Squeegee.

As for the Latin: That's simply a quote from 'The Red Green
Show,' a bit of Canadian comedy. Think of Red (aka Steve Smith) as the
Canadian version of Tim Taylor, but with a beard and graying hair.

That said, all Palms up to but excepting the Zire have an RS232 serial port
built in (and there may be some newer ones which are USB only...not sure).
I've used a Palm IIIc, a IIIx, a M505, and my M515 for pocketAPRS use. I
settled on the IIIc as I got it cheap and the wife complained when I "borrowed"
her Palm for testing.

They do? Good heavens... I had no idea. I always thought the
docking station did some voltage-level shifting to make it talk to the
PC's serial port.

Mine is run using a hacked HotSync cable. Power is obtained from the 12V car
system via a 5V regulated supply (love them cell phones...cheap/free parts!)
hooked to the appropriate connections in the H/S cable. GPS is hooked to the
TNC, the serial port of the TNC hooks to the Palm. Radio interface is off the
TNC. All of this is right out of the book...no mystical incantations or dead
chickens (other that what was in the sandwich, of course) (chicken, that is).
SO!!

Well, congrats! I'm glad someone knew of an alternate solution.

There you are, VHFRadioBuff... All the help you need from someone
who's actually done it.

--
Dr. Anton Squeegee, Director, Dutch Surrealist Plumbing Institute
(Known to some as Bruce Lane, KC7GR)
kyrrin a/t bluefeathertech d-o=t c&o&m
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" (Red Green)