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Robust Packet

January 2020 status report

January 30, 2020January 16, 2020

2m Duplex, 80m port sporadic, Winlink, Rappaport

Categories News Tags 2m, 80m Winlink, PACTOR, Robust Packet

Outpost and the Tracker

February 22, 2020September 7, 2019

The latest version of Outpost PMM directly supports the use of the SCS DPS Tracker TNC. Set yours up using the steps in this article.

Categories Resources Tags 1200, 1200bps, 9600, 9600bps, Outpost, Robust Packet, SCS, Tracker

SCS Tracker RPR spurious audio emissions fixed

January 15, 2019July 28, 2018
Audio spectrum of SCS Tracker firmware version 1.7k

The 1.7k version of the SCS Tracker firmware appears to address the spurious signals above and below the primary signal.

Categories Gear Tags modem, Robust Packet, SCS, Tracker

Audio spur above RPR spectrum

January 15, 2019March 22, 2018
Robust packet spectrum

The SCS Tracker DSP TNC works very well, but we noticed some additional energy transmitted above and below the primary Robust Packet 500 Hz bandwidth.

Categories News Tags modem, Robust Packet, SCS, Tracker

HF packet system or bust

May 3, 2018October 4, 2017
If VOACAP is half right about HF, opportunity awaits for the VAPN systems.

Waiting for a spot on the mountain shouldn’t prevent adding tremendously useful HF access to the VAPN system so that’s exactly what we are going to do in the lowlands.

Categories News Tags health and welfare, HF, HFPacket, NTS, Robust Packet, Tracker, VOACAP

September 2017 status report

May 3, 2018September 30, 2017

Negotiations for hill top space continue while we consider adding HF to the current 2m prototype.

Categories News Tags 10m, 1200, 1200bps, 145.030, 2m, 30m, HF, hf packet, Robust Packet, Tracker

Going all in for the SCS Tracker DSP TNC

January 15, 2019December 20, 2016
2016-12-20 VAPN System Line Drawing

The SCS Tracker DSP TNC wins its way into the overall design of the VAPN.

Categories Design Tags 1200, 1200bps, 9600, 9600bps, block diagram, modem, Robust Packet, SCS, Tracker, USB

Top band packet

May 3, 2018April 7, 2016
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Is packet operation on 160m an idea worth testing?

Categories Planning Tags 160m, Robust Packet, RP, RPR, Top Band, Tracker

The Kentucky Packet Network

September 15, 2016January 15, 2016
KYPN, the modern approach to packet radio

New ideas applied to an old mode help keep Packet Radio relevant in the 21st century.

Categories Resources Tags 10m, 1200bps, 200bps, 222, 2m, 30m, 440, 600bps, 6m, 9600bps, Emcomm, Internet, Kentucky, KYPN, Robust Packet, Winlink
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