G'day Guys!

Came across your thread and just thought I would give you all some great news about Q15X25!

Currently there is finally firmware being developed for the Kam XL Dual port DSP TNC range!.

This is great news for those who don't wish to rely on PC / Sound Card hardware to run this mode, finally there will be a small black box solution!.

Regards,
Ken.
VK4AKP.
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VK4AKP writes:
Currently there is finally firmware being developed for the Kam XL Dual
port DSP TNC range!.

This is great news for those who don't wish to rely on PC / Sound Card
hardware to run this mode, finally there will be a small black box
solution!.

Cool. I wonder why nobody builds this stuff directly into radio
tranceivers.

What I really want is a portable PSK31 tranceiver with an alphanumeric
keypad, 4 line (or so) LCD text display, AA battery pack, all the
PSK31 modulation/demodulation stuff, and all the RF stuff in a single
box, no computer needed. I'm imagining something about the size of an
FT817 and reasonably rugged. It could be single band, like 20 meters,
and it would of course have a computer port for when a computer was
available. That would be a way to have fairly reliable DX portable
communications without resorting to satellites.

I wonder why nobody makes anything like this, or builds the feature
into FT817-class radios. I'm sure there'd be demand for it.

In article ,
Paul Rubin wrote:

Cool. I wonder why nobody builds this stuff directly into radio
tranceivers.

For one thing, the market for digital modes is so small compared with
the market for voice operation. For another, the digital modes keep
evolving rapidly, so it's a lot easier to use a PC to develop and
distribute software than having it in some form that only works in a
particular make and model transceiver.

Seems like the transceiver makers are just now getting around to having
the higher-end models able to decode and display RTTY. That isn't a
feature I would pay for, because I do lots of digital modes, and because
I would imagine those that run in a PC might do a better job of decoding
than something built into the transceiver. The PC software gets lots
of user experience and frequent updates until it is more or less
optimized. You don't get that with something built into the transceiver.

Not to say that you don't have a legitimate wish for a highly portable
PSK station. Just that it is unlikely to happen in a commercial product.
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jhhaynes at earthlink dot net

Hi Ken,
As soon as they have that Firmware available I will be getting one...
Have been playing with MixW and Q15x25.... Nice....

I do like the TNc idea as well..


73 jerry n9lya
"VK4AKP" wrote in message
...

G'day Guys!

Came across your thread and just thought I would give you all some
great news about Q15X25!

Currently there is finally firmware being developed for the Kam XL Dual
port DSP TNC range!.

This is great news for those who don't wish to rely on PC / Sound Card
hardware to run this mode, finally there will be a small black box
solution!.

Regards,
Ken.
VK4AKP.
-.-.


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