[digitalradio] Pactor II / III Keboard to Keyboard And Other Questions

2006-06-08 Thread Jon Maguire
1 Does anybody have a feel for how many Hams are using PII and PIII for keyboard QSOs? 2. SCS has a patent on these modes. What exactly is patented? I know the hardware must be, and probably a software element like compression can be patented, but what else? 3. In reference to 2, is it

Re: [digitalradio] Pactor II / III Keboard to Keyboard And Other Questions

2006-06-08 Thread John Becker
I'll take a crack at this since all my operation is either RTTY (using a model 28ARS machine) or pactor ARQ using a TNC. (1)Most are on pactor 1. very few on K2K on 2 or 3. (2) the way it does what it does. (3) not that I know of. A few years ago nextel (I think it was) did try to patent