Steve,
Welcome to digital communications... Since you live in Louisiana here are a
couple of sites that you may want to look at, first the Louisiana section
website at www.laarrl.org on the right side of the page is a link for digital
communications and has a 6 or 7 part tutorial on digital communications and
other technical stuff written in laymens terms, the other is the website for
the
Baton Rouge area Ham club www.lsu.edu/brarc. There are a lot of folks in the
state who can help you out with answers and quite a few in Baton Rouge.
I will help you more off line, I live in the Alexandria area so it may be tough
for a face to face, unless you come to our Hamfest in October.
73, Chuck AC5PW
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From: Stephen <smyer...@yahoo.com>
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, August 20, 2010 4:13:01 PM
Subject: [digitalradio] New guy
Hello all. After being a SWL for several years, a friend willed (he is an SK
now) to me his Icom 765. I am intrested in getting into the digital modes.
Being
new, I don't even know enough to ask the right questions.
My wife is in the US Navy and we will retire to the country of Panama. I got my
ticket last Feb. but we moved to Baton Rouge and I have nothing set up (except
a
long wire in the attic). I have had all the gear (IC-765, IC-AT500, IC-2kl and
its powersupply) back to a guy who rebuilt and referbished to factory spect. I
have found that if you have a ticket, in Panama, they will give you one (of
equal rating) so you can operate in their country.
Is HRD the program to use, or should I start out with somethig that is more
simple? Do I get an "outboard" sound card? What cables do I need? Any advice
will be appreciated.
Steve
KJ4SLK
