Subj : Re: Packet BBS?
To   : claw
From : tenser
Date : Fri Oct 04 2024 08:05 am

On 03 Oct 2024 at 07:56a, claw pondered and said...
 
 cl> On 03 Oct 2024, tenser said the following...
 cl>  te> It doesn't have to be.  A Raspberry Pi, a cheap VHF mobile rig,
 cl>  te> and a USB sound card will get you on the air.  If you've already
 cl>  te> got the rig, you can probably do it all for under $100; well
 cl>  te> under that if you're OK with a soldering iron and don't mind
 cl>  te> modding a cheap CM-108 or similar.  If you've already got a
 cl>  te> Raspberry Pi (or a computer you don't mind using for this other
 cl>  te> wise) you're good to go.
 cl> 
 cl> I have a few pi's sitting around so that sounds good.  I just need to
 cl> mod a sound card then. This is to activate the transmit right?

Yup, that's right: most of the CM-108 mods just use a spare pin
for PTT.  Or you could get something like a DigiRig Mobile (which
is what I'm using for both APRS and plain ol' AX.25).

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