<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Brett</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Jason KG4WSV <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kg4wsv@gmail.com" target="_blank">kg4wsv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
> On Mar 4, 2017, at 11:16 PM, Brett Friermood <<a href="mailto:brett.friermood@gmail.com">brett.friermood@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I'm looking for something a little more hardened than an average amateur radio<br>
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</span>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.<br>
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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.<br>
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-j<br>
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