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From: ssrhouns@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Paul Hounslow)
Subject: Re: radio contact
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 12:56:01 GMT
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In article 93j@skates.gsfc.nasa.gov, nstn@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nathan Stratton) writes:
>I would also like to do the same thing, but I would like to transmit from 
>about a 2000 feet. I wanted to use Radio Oh we dont have that. Well why is
>it on your shelf Shack 49 MHz 2 way. How to I connect one to a serial port?
>Someone said I should use a A/D converter how woud I do that.
>

If its slow speed stuff go to your nearest Ham radio supplier and get two TNC's.
These connect to an RS-232 on one side and a radio on the other.  The only draw
back is that throughput can be a bit slow.  The data rate is (usually) 1200 baud,
with an effective thoughput of upto about 900 baud.

Paul

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