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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/7/2017 3:18 PM, Bill Vodall wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Andrew has a highly relevant question here and it's time to build a
table. This is primarily for the Northwest Digital UDR-C soundcard
modem but will perhaps work for other off the shelf devices - at least
with a basic conversion cable from whatever to the standard 6-pin mini
din.
Please check the table at the bottom of this post and forward to me
any updates or additional info. It would be nice to have a "click
here and order this" solution for a packet data radio. Lots to be
added but at least this is a start.
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Two more candidates:<br>
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Yaesu FT-1500 - Ultra-compact 50-watt 2M monobander with 6-pin
miniDIN port. Discontinued, but turns up frequently at swap meets.
Radio is packaged in a cast-aluminum clamshell, barely an inch
thick, that doubles as heat sink. Unique mounting method: Instead
of the usual trunion mobile-mount bracket, two #8 bolts extend
through the clamshell from top to bottom. Makes it really easy to
mount the radio to the inside wall of an ammo box with no wasted
space, for portable ammo-box trackers and digipeaters. This is an
excellent platform for all kinds of APRS applications. Grab any and
all you see at swapmeets and ham fests!<br>
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Yaesu FT-8900 - FM quadbander for 10, 6, 2 and 70cm. Has dual
receivers capable of cross-band digipeat between any of these bands.
I've actually used it, in my car, to digipeat 144.39 to UHF for
radio club demos at meetings deep inside buildings. It has the
6-pin mini-DIN port with the cleanest discr output I've seen in a
ham (not commercial land mobile) rig. The accuracy of the 300-3000
Hz de-emphasis curve on the "1200-baud" pin of the miniDIN is also
among the best I've seen ever. Note that the TYT-9800 (Chinese
identical-looking knockoff of this radio for $100 less) lacks the
all-important data port! <br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%">Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com <br>
Skype: WA8LMF<br>
EchoLink: Node # 14400 [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]<br>
Home Page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.net">http://wa8lmf.net</a><br>
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Live Off-The-Air APRS Activity Maps<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wa8lmf.net/map"><http://wa8lmf.net/map></a><br>
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Long-Range APRS on 30 Meters HF <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/HF_APRS_Notes.htm"><http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/HF_APRS_Notes.htm></a><br>
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