Thanks Alan and Curt for the comments. Although none of this discussion has addressed Dave's original email I will pursue the 2 radio terrestrial testing method. This reminded me that I have an old TEKK 9k6 UHF rock bound data radio in the junk box somewhere which I used for years on the TCPIP 44.*.*.* network via a JNOS gateway. Ah, those were the days when only the amateurs, universities and military knew what the internet was all about - telnet, gopher, ftp in text mode only... But I digress...

Thanks again for reminding me that I had the option of the "2 radio terrestrial test"

73 de Alan

-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Alan Sieg WB5RMG Sent: December 12, 2008 8:32 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ISS 9K6 with ICOM 910

Alan (VE4YZ) said :

...short passes ...goode olde PacComm NB96

I'm reminded of a comment made by Nader (ST2NH) not so long ago, suggesting local testing between two of your radios to iron out kinks.

It sounds like you already even have one side of that link up and runnable with your NB96 old-mode hardware... Thats a great start I'd think.

Better than where I'll start with two (un-tested) soundcard solutions running back to back via two (un-tested) radios. (That probably explains why I haven't yet started) (The 9600 testing may well conclude, before I even get started ...)

I wonder if my soundcard is good enough to record some downlink audio. Hummm, probably more of the same confusion/frustration.

Good luck, be sure to let us know what works... 73 /;^) -- <- Licensed in 1976, WB5RMG = Alan Sieg * AMSAT#20554 -> <- http://www.somenet.net * http://wb5rmg.somenet.net -> <- http://www.linkedin.com/in/alansieg * My 'Day Job' ->

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