Demetre SV1UY wrote: > Well, > > I have a KAM controller with PACTOR 1. I bet you have not even seen > one.
You know, Demetre, I am getting tired of remarks like that from you. I have attempted to reply to your posts with courtesy, but you seem bent upon returning courtesy with bad manners. Please stop that. In actual fact, I **own** a KAM unit. Used it for GTOR. It was horrible for Pactor 1 in my opinion; quite inferior to my old PK232 (my first TNC) and in no way comparable to the SCS PTC-II which I also used to own. GTOR was very unreliable, and is utterly dead and gone. Someone else on this forum has corrected my statement that the KAM units lacked memory-arq. OK, fine. My experience with the unit, as I mentioned above, was that they were buggy and did not do well for Pactor. > > As for reverse engineering, I do not know about that, but if they did > that, this is one more reason for the failure of their product. I > know that SCS did license PACTOR 1 though Actually, the only outfit they licensed it to was one American company the name of which escapes me. They were not a business success, and I think they were actually just selling re-labelled SCS modems rather than different modems using licensed Pactor protocol. I do not believe that any amateur radio manufacturer ever succeeded in negotiating a straight license with SCS for Pactor. This leads to the inference that SCS wants to sell hardware, not merely enjoy licensing fees. I may be mistaken about that, but that is not an unreasonable deduction. de Roger W6VZV
