[OZAPRS] PK232 (Revisited)

[Ray Wells]

70's era packet gear requiring the bbRAM battery to be removed? I don't 
think so.

Packet didn't arrive in Australia until about 1982, very close on the 
heels of the Vancouver (Canada) protocol that preceded ax25.

I agree that the MFJ  early 1980's TNC are reliable, having used many of 
them in BBS and now APRS service for over a decade.

Ray vk2tv


On 04/01/11 17:32, Gavin Rogers wrote:
> I've never found the PK-232 series modems to be reliable. All that 
> '70s era electronics gets mighty warm, the daughterboards and socketed 
> ICs get urges to shift out of their sockets and they lock up or 
> freeze, often requiring the bbRAM battery to be removed before they'll 
> boot up again.
>
> MFJ's 127x series TNCs, while no more modern, have some HF capability 
> and in my experience work reliably for years.
>
>
> 73
> Gavin.