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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The KISS mode with the new PTC firmware
works</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>great with NOS. Pactor is not available
via</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>kiss because of timing difficulties. They also
added</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>SMACK and Xnet support. so with linux the
PTC's</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>will now work with Xnet, Flexnet, and the
default</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Linux AX.25 stack.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> The 300 baud modem is great, but for
some</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>reason I find my cheap MFJ 1270
outperforms</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>it on VHF. Although the local APRS freq is all I
can</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>test VHF with so far. Audio levels may need
to</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>be tweaked.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Skip:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I think you really should complain
about</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>those people running a maxframe of four.
It</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>is going to be difficult for ANY tnc to get a word
in</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>edgewise with THAT much data being spewed all at
once.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> In my experience, the longer a TNC has to
wait for the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>channel to clear, the more agressive it will get
when it finally</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>comes to key-down.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> You may not even be stepping on them, when
your RX comes back</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>up and you hear the tail-end of a packet it could
have been</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>THEM stepping on you.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>GL</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and Best 73,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Steven N1OHX</FONT></DIV>
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