[aprssig] HF APRS Transceiver

[Joseph M. Durnal]

I've seen some FT-100D's and older 706's with bad displays or that are
dead on VHF/UHF.  A semi-functinal rig might do exactly what you need
it to do, even if all of its functions don't work.

73 de Joseph Durnal NE3R

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Eric H Christensen
<eric at christensenplace.us> wrote:
> Duffy,
> That's what I was afraid of.  Still looking for the silver bullet out there to make HF APRS practical (read that as cheap).
>
> Eric
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> On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 03:20:04PM -0500, Amateur Radio WB8NUT wrote:
> > Eric,
> >
> > The MFJ Cub transceivers are CW only. You would need a transceiver capable
> > of sideband phone transmissions. Then you need it to be stable on
> > frequency. It would be impractical to make that little CW transceiver into
> > a phone transceiver it not impossible. Even if you could do it, the darn
> > thing drifts too much to be of any use with APRS. You need a real ground up
> > phone transmitter that is VERY stable.
> >
> > Duffy
> > www.wb8nut.com
> >
> > Eric H Christensen wrote:
> >> I've been trying to find the answer to this question for a few days but you can't find good electronics answers anymore.  I'm hoping that there will be someone on here that has more/better electronics experience than I.
> >>
> >> MFJ makes a "cheap" CW-only HF transceiver that is for single bands but does allow a small amount of tuning within that band.  What extra circuitry is needed to connect something like an OpenTracker+ to this type of transmitter so it will transmit 300 baud packet?
> >>
> >> 73,
> >> Eric W4OTN
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