+Schmitzi Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Hi, just to have a thread for the Hamsoft & Kantronics´ Radio solution for the TI-99/4A here is a list (of course) and some pics of my stuff. The parts I know about: TI-99-4A-HAM-Radio-v1.00-beta.pdf Ads from the HAM-Radio Magazine ´84 / ´85: The manual: hamsoft manual.pdf 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Want... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted April 22, 2017 Author Share Posted April 22, 2017 Have.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 that's so awesome you have one of those! My grandpa had one in his 'radio room'. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Have. . .although I have a different interface. Mine is "The Interface" as described in the Hamsoft manual. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted April 22, 2017 Author Share Posted April 22, 2017 I think we need some pics 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flottmann1 Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 here http://www.ebay.de/itm/MFJ-1224-RTTY-CW-COMPUTER-INTERFACE-MFJ-Enterprises-MFJ-1224-/232304775271?hash=item3616719067:g:BEgAAOSwol5YyeEJ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted April 23, 2017 Author Share Posted April 23, 2017 wow, nice. I have a spare one of them, mint in the box 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted April 23, 2017 Author Share Posted April 23, 2017 HAM Radio Is Still Important (klick da pic for article) Backup of the article: Emergency Communications Driving Increase in Amateur Radio Operators.pdf 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 ... and when all IP networks will be surveyed, white-/blacklisted, and deepy inspected. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 I've been out of the hobby now for about a decade, but even then much of the hardware based TNC's and multi-mode controllers were giving way to sound card based units and having everything handled by the PC instead. Winpack was one popular program for packet radio. I knew quite a few guys who were using the Tigertronics USB soundcard unit. My TNC was the KPC-9612 and with it I could run two different frequencies at the same time with my V7A. I even had fun working the ISS in both digital and analog (voice modes). Politics and the Internet helped to send packet to it's near demise. I'm not sure how much is going on these days other than mostly ARES/RACES activity and APRS. Hobbies change over the years, but it was fun ride at the time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted April 23, 2017 Author Share Posted April 23, 2017 hmm, very interesting. I should have known decades before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mister35mm Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 G7VFY listening 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 I was AA5KP many years ago. My grandpa was AC5D and my dad was NX5Z. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Had one for my C128D back in the 90's. I was able to connect my SW radio to it and read RTTY transmissions off the air... I did not know there was an interface made for the TI as well! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted April 24, 2017 Author Share Posted April 24, 2017 I was ´TeddyBear14´ on my small(-range), 3-channel "hand-squeezy" :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectricLab Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Long time ham here. I have a handful of TNCs but never have hooked any of them to the TI although it'd be easy. I used to create programs to test myself on Morse code competency, and after I got my PEB in '86, the first thing I wrote since I now had "mass storage" was a logger program to keep track of my contacts. It was fun writing search algorithms that would crawl scan the disk for matches. Good times! In '88 I got my first PC which was an 8088, and I made my own memory-mapped interface from which I could read the status of the output pin of an LM567 tone decoder to turn CW (Morse) to text. I'd feed the audio from my transceiver into this circuit and tune the R to be resonant to 800hz or so. Then I remember writing code in GWBASIC that could track the rise/fall of the tone decoder's output pin, convert it to mark/space in memory, then print the text on the screen. I still this interface card. I've done lots with teletypes too, most recently with a Raspberry Pi bit-banging a relay to control a current loop. I also enjoy PSK31 as a low-speed, keyboard-to-keyboard protocol. Lots of operators there. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+acadiel Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 Does anyone have the manuals and software for this? Looking at possibly hooking that Kantronics RTTY unit up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+acadiel Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 The one I have borrowed has software 2.0 on it. I see above you guys have 1.2 and 2.2. Here's the 2.0 ROM. I'm still looking for a manual and PSU specifications for "The Interface" by Kantronics. The sidecar doesn't need a PSU, but "The Interface" terminal unit does need one. Also need guidance on hooking it up to my shortwave so I can see if it still decodes RTTY and CW. kantronics20.zip 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted April 9, 2020 Author Share Posted April 9, 2020 Just some more pics from the same stuff: KANTRONICS CHALLENGER: MFJ-1224: HAMSOFT TI-99-MFJ-1224-INTERFACE: HAMSOFT TI-99-CHALLENGER-INTERFACE: (from eBay today) 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 kj4bdl and I'm a kantronics/hamsoft owner! ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+acadiel Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 K5JDG. I have the sidecar thanks to Mark Little as well as a Terminal Unit (but I have no power supply for it.) I haven't tried firing it up yet. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 I really need to bite the bullet and go for my ham license. I've been considering this for 3 decades! I even bought the AARL book from Radio Shack and still have it Probably long outdated. I did do some RTTY receiving using the C128 at some point. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 Amateur Radio was one of the most expensive hobbies I ever had. Radios for each car, one for the house, an HT for portable use, then there were the amplifiers, specialized antennas and rotor, meters, super expensive coax, power supplies, TNC's, software packages, dedicated computer, hell it never ended. I let my license expire in 2005. I still have some equipment laying around that I've yet to get rid of. Honestly, I don't miss it anymore mainly because 95% of the people I used to chat with are silent keys now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+acadiel Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 13 hours ago, Vorticon said: I really need to bite the bullet and go for my ham license. I've been considering this for 3 decades! I even bought the AARL book from Radio Shack and still have it Probably long outdated. I did do some RTTY receiving using the C128 at some point. Free review of all the question pool: http://arrlexamreview.appspot.com/ (Seriously, this is the ones they actually use...) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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