[aprssig] Is 9600 Baud Okay on 2Mtr's?

[A.J. Farmer]

I have used my TH-D7 TNC @ 9600 on the AO-51 Satellite without any trouble.
I just hooked up the laptop, put the internal TNC in KISS mode, set the
frequency and I was working on A0-51 with no trouble at 9600.  

Although I haven't tried Winlink yet, I'm not sure what all the fuss is
about that the Kenwood radio TNC's won't do the job.  Is this coming from
people that have tried it and failed or is this based on speculation?  I got
the same type of response from many AMSAT folks that said you can't work
AO-51 at 9600 with a Kenwood radio/TNC.  Well, it works fine for me.  With
the large population of TH-D7 and TM-D700 users, I would think the Winlink
folks would try their best to embrace them.

A Telpac node just went up locally so I hope to finally try out Winlink this
week using my TH-D7.  I'll give it a good workout with different sized
messages and files and post my results here.

73!

A.J. Farmer, AJ3U
http://www.aj3u.com


-----Original Message-----
From: aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org [mailto:aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org]
On Behalf Of wa7nwp at jnos.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:40 AM
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
Subject: RE: [aprssig] Is 9600 Baud Okay on 2Mtr's?

> QST did a comparison review 2 years ago or so I belive and most of the
> radios did not do very well.


Has anybody really tried the D700 or D7 at 9600 with
an external TNC (KPC9612+) or soundcard setup?

Even if the internal TNC is fubar, it would still be
great to have a dual band rig that really worked at 9k6.

I'm asking about using them for applications like FTP'ing
megabyte MP3 files with 1K byte packets or transfering
50Kbyte attachments on Winlink.

I was asking the same about the FT817 last year and
never did find out if anybody had tried it.  Maybe
now that winlink is picking up steam somebody has
checked it out.

73,
Bill - WA7NWP


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