<div>Looks that the thing to do is use sound card modem?</div>
<div>Wes<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Tom Hayward <<a href="mailto:tom@tomh.us">tom@tomh.us</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">> For a while, I was getting into hacking the ZipIt IM<br>> device.<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8107883197.html" target="_blank">http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8107883197.html</a><br>
><br>> Decent sized graphic PCD, QWERTY keyboard, built-in<br>> Wifi and even has a serial port with the addon of an<br>> ST202 IC. The really cool part...it runs on embedded<br>> linux. However, I am too crummy of a programmer to do<br>
> anything with it on my own.<br><br></div>Cool. If someone can pack a VHF or UHF 9k6+ data transceiver and a GPS<br>into this package, I'll write the software. I'm not sure if APRS is<br>worth implementing though. I could talk to Scott about an Opentrak<br>
implementation. I'm working solo on an embedded linux project at work<br>so I'm getting very familiar with this type of programming.<br><br>In response to "build it and they will come": APRS is already<br>
saturated in my area. 1200 baud is a no-go for any new device. The UHF<br>network at 9k6 seems to have plenty of growing room, but I wouldn't<br>want to encourage any growth on 144.390. I already can't get packets<br>
out with portable trackers.<br><br>Tom KD7LXL<br>
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