[OZAPRS] PK232 (Revisited)

[kevcav]

Ray,

I would suggest to you that a high percentage of PK232's installed here 
in Australia in fact had the internal battery removed or the jumper 
enabling the battery disabled.

Very user software sensitive.

Kevin



On 1/4/2011 5:16 PM, Ray Wells wrote:
> 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.
>
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