[aprssig] Barebones "Data Radio"

[Brett Friermood]

Thanks for the info Jason. I remember the information I found was somewhat
limited, so it's nice to hear of some real-world experience. I'm guessing
those issues may have contributed to them being pulled.

Are you running 9600bps with the HT's? If so, how are you interfacing to
them? One of my applications would be running plain 1200bps so most
anything can handle it, but the other would need direct connection to the
modulator/discriminator and no pre-/de-emphasis to run 9600. There is also
some experimenting I'd like to do with the higher data rates of the
Direwolf modem.

Brett

On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On Mar 4, 2017, at 11:16 PM, Brett Friermood <brett.friermood at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking for something a little more hardened than an average amateur
> radio
>
> The FC301 is ok, certainly more convenient as a data radio than an HT, but
> it isn't particularly "hardened". I tried them for high altitude balloons
> and most lasted a single flight. In particular, the PCB seemed to be
> cleaned improperly or not at all after soldering, and a single high
> humidity excursion resulted in severe corrosion.
>
> Common HTs (a yaesu, an icom, and several Alinco DJC7) last for many
> flights. In spite of being a bit heavy, larger, and inconvenient to mount
> compared to the fc301, we prefer them for reliability.
>
> -j
>
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