Re: TI-H: New Packet Radio Calculator Interface
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Re: TI-H: New Packet Radio Calculator Interface
But you need a Ham radio to use it, right?
Grant Stockly wrote:
> I've devolped a protocall. Bad thing: Sending 1k will take about 10 to 40
> seconds depending on the day. I will have a 500 watt transmitter with a
> 200 foot antenna at my house which will serve the calcs. Right now its 12,
> but I've been wanting to expand it for a long time. Don't worry. I live
> in alaska, but I can easily talk to jappan, South dakota, Mariland. Since
> short waves bounce off of the atmosphere, you guys might need to amp up
> your signal. I can send to you, but you may not be able to send (very
> well) to me on a cloudy day. (it might take a minute to do 1k)
>
> If you lived on the west coast, we could get 9600bps talkin to each other... :)
>
> I will release new information when I make it. It won't be exactly 500
> watt for very some time. The more hubs I sell, the sooner. takes arround
> $8,000 for everything. fcc to come and look at it (they don't want you
> pumpin' 500 watts into your neighbors TV)/ and making it 200 feet long with
> low gauge wire isn't cheep either! 50 watt (now) will easily do all of the
> united states, but you guys in france will (maybe) have to wait untill
> summer.
>
> I only have 25MB of ram in my computer (the one I'm giving up for radio) so
> only 2,000 calcs can send information at a time. :)
>
> Grant
>
> ---
> "Earth Today. We'll strip mine other planets later."
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