[aprssig] Using a TNC as a CW Beacon Only

Jason Winningham jdw at eng.uah.edu
Sat Feb 18 21:24:57 EST 2006


On Feb 18, 2006, at 5:06 PM, <scott at opentrac.org>  
<scott at opentrac.org> wrote:

> I can't answer your TNC question, but I've been thinking about  
> reusing some
> of the OpenTracker code to build a CW ID unit using a single 8-pin IC.
...
> Does anyone have something this scale yet?

I found this a while back:

http://www.birch.net/~petek/rockets/RDF/id.htm


I used this guy's code and mounted a PIC 12C509 dead bug to the back  
of a Ramsey MR6 (actually, I built 2 of them).  THese are the backup  
beacons for our balloon flights.

-Jason
kg4wsv







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