From sm1ugt@hotmail.com Sat Dec 05 05:34:40 1998 Received: from hotmail.com (f292.hotmail.com [207.82.251.183]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA08001 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 05:34:39 -0600 (CST) Received: (qmail 7500 invoked by uid 0); 5 Dec 1998 11:34:08 -0000 Message-ID: <19981205113408.7499.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 130.244.163.75 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sat, 05 Dec 1998 03:34:08 PST X-Originating-IP: [130.244.163.75] From: "Hamoperator SM7UGT Marcel bos" To: ss@tapr.org Subject: Starting on N6GN's microwave project MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 03:34:08 PST go www.abc.se/~m8114/hamradio where I try to concentrate The N6GN project parts in A-Z However There is a problem - We need help with the Ethernet interfacing.. > >Looking at the N6GN project and can't locate these parts: > >MC13055 FSK RECEIVER IC >SRA-1 MIXER >MC10116 LINE RECEIVER IC > >Can anyone help out locating these parts and how much they cost? > >James KD4DLA > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From rra@fee.unicamp.br Tue Dec 15 07:04:09 1998 Received: from diamante.fee.unicamp.br (diamante.fee.unicamp.br [143.106.8.7]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA02446 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 07:04:02 -0600 (CST) Received: from berilio.fee.unicamp.br (berilio.fee.unicamp.br [143.106.8.41]) by diamante.fee.unicamp.br (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id KAA04113 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:53:52 -0200 (EDT) Received: from localhost by berilio.fee.unicamp.br (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA22974; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:17:30 -0200 Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:17:30 -0200 (EDT) From: Ricardo Rodrigues De Araujo To: ss@tapr.org Subject: development boards Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am looking for a development board for spread spectrum chip sets. At the moment i only found the harris chip set development board. Does anybody know others development board or kit for spread spectrum ICs? Thanks From dewayne@warpspeed.com Tue Dec 15 08:22:18 1998 Received: from [24.1.67.207] (c443742-c.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.1.67.207]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA04530 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 08:22:17 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.1.7] (192.168.1.7) by warpspeed.com with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.2.1b1); Tue, 15 Dec 1998 06:20:33 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Sender: dewayne@mail.warpspeed.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 06:17:57 -0800 To: ss@tapr.org From: Dewayne Hendricks Subject: Re: [SS:155] development boards At 7:12 -0600 12/15/98, Ricardo Rodrigues De Araujo wrote: > I am looking for a development board for spread spectrum chip sets. At the > moment i only found the harris chip set development board. Does anybody > know others development board or kit for spread spectrum ICs? Check here for an article that looks at the Harris, AMI, Sirius Communications and Stanford Telecom eval boards: -- Dewayne -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dewayne Hendricks, WA8DZP ! Internet: dewayne@warpspeed.com Warp Speed Imagineering ! Packet Radio: WA8DZP @ K3MC.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM 43730 Vista Del Mar ! WWW: Fremont, CA 94539-3204 ! Fax: (510) 770-9854 ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From kn6td@clubnet.net Wed Dec 16 03:41:49 1998 Received: from mail.clubnet.net (www.showbizvideo.com [206.126.129.100]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA28483 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 03:41:49 -0600 (CST) Received: from djl_portable (206.126.139.21) by mail.clubnet.net with SMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.2); Wed, 16 Dec 1998 01:43:35 -0800 X-Sender: KN6TD@mail.clubnet.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 01:34:39 -0800 To: ss@tapr.org From: "Derek J. Lassen" Subject: Re: [SS:155] development boards In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <1298321081-23416427@mail.clubnet.net> Zilog has a dev. kit for the z2000. It contains a z2000, z182, SRAM and FLASH. It is ISA form factor, though it can be used stand alone. At 07:12 AM 12/15/98 -0600, you wrote: > >I am looking for a development board for spread spectrum chip sets. At the >moment i only found the harris chip set development board. Does anybody >know others development board or kit for spread spectrum ICs? > > >Thanks > From sm1ugt@hotmail.com Wed Dec 16 14:22:42 1998 Received: from hotmail.com (f241.hotmail.com [207.82.251.132]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA29617 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:22:41 -0600 (CST) Received: (qmail 27731 invoked by uid 0); 16 Dec 1998 20:22:06 -0000 Message-ID: <19981216202206.27730.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 193.15.54.36 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 12:22:05 PST X-Originating-IP: [193.15.54.36] From: "Hamoperator SM7UGT Marcel bos" To: ss@tapr.org Subject: Re: [SS:2023] Re: Starting on N6GN's microwave project Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 12:22:05 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Hi Marcel here.. happy Xmas and so on! For my webpage I have some qestions to ask. Do you know anyone who have rised the baudrate on the link it yet? I have just seen some people talking about it, but no suggestions in where to tune in.. Other qestions are what Networking cards will fit to it - if not besides the PI2 Card.. I am where you leaved me lastime.. I've got an Laser pointer.. Have found a good deal on Astra Offset screens they are 200 Kr each :) will go to the hardware store tomorrow - I gonna buy a aluminium profile for the outdoor modules.. /Marcel ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From dewayne@warpspeed.com Mon Dec 21 09:08:31 1998 Received: from [24.1.67.207] (c443742-c.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.1.67.207]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA11368 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:08:30 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.1.7] (192.168.1.7) by warpspeed.com with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.2.1b2); Mon, 21 Dec 1998 07:06:45 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Sender: dewayne@mail.warpspeed.com Message-Id: Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 07:08:23 -0800 To: ss@tapr.org (TAPR SS Mailing List) From: Dewayne Hendricks Subject: Article on UWB in NYT See the URL below for a pointer to a story on Ultra Wideband Band technologies written by John Markoff which appeared in today's New York Times: TAPR is a member of an ad-hoc industry group of UWB organizations and participated in a consensus filing on the FCC's UWB NOI on December 7th. This filing will be posted to TAPR's SS pages in the near future. If you're interested in taking a look at all of the comments that have been filed to date on this NOI, then take a look at . -- Dewayne -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dewayne Hendricks, WA8DZP ! Internet: dewayne@warpspeed.com Warp Speed Imagineering ! Packet Radio: WA8DZP @ K3MC.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM 43730 Vista Del Mar ! WWW: Fremont, CA 94539-3204 ! Fax: (510) 770-9854 ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From ssampson@usa-site.net Mon Dec 21 11:06:01 1998 Received: from access.usa-site.net (access.usa-site.net [209.140.34.130]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA16063 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:05:59 -0600 (CST) Received: from dodge (dodge.usa-site.net [209.140.34.135]) by access.usa-site.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA12182 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:05:52 -0600 Message-ID: <000c01be2d04$1107de40$01404e2c@dodge.usa-site.net> From: "Steve Sampson" To: Subject: Re: [SS:159] Article on UWB in NYT Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:05:09 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Marketing is kind of weak, with names like "Time Modulation." That's actually a pretty significant achievement! Modulating the time must cause havoc with biological systems :-) It would seem there's just be a bunch of goo when the SWAT team finally broke their way in... Steve -----Original Message----- From: Dewayne Hendricks To: ss@tapr.org Date: Monday, December 21, 1998 10:25 AM Subject: [SS:159] Article on UWB in NYT > > See the URL below for a pointer to a story on Ultra Wideband >Band technologies written by John Markoff which appeared in today's >New York Times: From wd5ivd@tapr.org Tue Dec 22 13:57:11 1998 Received: from [207.43.172.66] ([207.43.172.66]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA03533 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:57:10 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:55:59 -0600 To: " Spread Spectrum " From: "Greg Jones, WD5IVD" Subject: Comments of The Ultra-Wideband Working Group - FCC Docket No. 98-153 Sorry for the delay, but I have the Comments of The Ultra-Wideband Working Group - FCC Docket No. 98-153 posted on the TAPR SS web page. http://www.tapr.org/ss Cheers - Greg ----- Greg Jones, WD5IVD Austin, Texas wd5ivd@tapr.org http://www.tapr.org/~wd5ivd From chbrain@dircon.co.uk Fri Dec 25 11:15:31 1998 Received: from mailhost.dircon.co.uk (mailhost.dircon.co.uk [194.112.32.65]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA23393; Fri, 25 Dec 1998 11:15:30 -0600 (CST) Received: from dircon.co.uk (th-en138-219.pool.dircon.co.uk [194.112.55.219]) by mailhost.dircon.co.uk (8.9.1/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA18652; Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:15:27 GMT Message-ID: <3683C759.9C160AB4@dircon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:11:53 +0000 From: Charles Brain X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hfsig@tapr.org, ss@tapr.org Subject: AMBE1000+ RFC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Everyone, In furtherance of my digital speech experiments, I am now laying out a digital speech board. This board is based around the AMBE1000+ low rate Vocoder chip. For further details see http://www.dvsinc.com/ I have chosen to go the chip approach mainly due to licensing concerns over the MELP algorithm that I have been experimenting with. Plus the MELP approach needs lots of MIPS whereas the AMBE draws 65ma max and the chip is only one inch square. Originally I was only going to use the board to interface to a Motorola EVM running a parallel tone modem I am working on. However the board will have a processor on it so would be ideal for other applications. This is where you can help! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My current design consists of the following Motorola MC14LC5480 Codec AMBE-1000 Vocoder PIC16C67 CPU (maybe) MAX232 RS232 Level convertor 74HC04 Interface logic codec <-> vocoder 74HC74 " " " " 74HC4060 Clock 2.048Mhz and 8Khz 7805 Voltage Regulator. 3 Xtals as I can't find an easy way to only use one! The microphone input will be balanced with a supply for an electret unit. I think the codec is designed to interface with a telephone handset. I have added a PTT line as well, although the chip has VAD, it also supports DTMF tone generation and can provide comfort noise and echo cancellation (the echo cancellation is for 2 to 4 wire hybrids and is of little use to me). The board will power up at 2400 bps speech with no FEC, although it can be reprogrammed via the PIC to any rate in 50 baud increments up to 9600 bps with different rates of FEC. All the components except the Vocoder are DIP packages, the vocoder only comes in a TQFP package. As I am configuring the chip via the PIC most of the pins on the vocoder are either at 5v or grounded. I can't finnish the board off until I get the TQFP packages as the PCB software does not come with a TQFP footprint so I have had to make one and I flunked technical drawing at school so I want to check it against an actual component! I could have done the whole thing using SMT but it is easier to work on this way, I don't know what people feel about this? I have used quite a large PIC, mainly for two reasons, firstly to provide space for future software expansion and secondly, quite a few people seem to know how to program these chips. Hopefully someone will feel inspired into making a digital 2m radio! I think all the call control software would have to run on a separate CPU though. It should be possible to do a radio that can do full duplex on a single simplex channel using a Ping-Pong type protocol. The actual board will be about 1/2 the size of the Motorola EVM. I hope to have the first unit ready by the end of January. The vocoders should arrive the first week of January as DVS have received the money I wired them and the chips are in stock. All the other parts are available here in the U.K. I have added an RS232 interface so it can be connected to the Host port of an EVM. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The parts cost should work out to about $150. I don't want to make the board too complicated, but if anyone has any suggestions as to things that would make it more useful to them, please let me know. So far I have laid out the Codec, interface logic, psu parts and the RS232 interface. I have not finally decided on the CPU yet. But I will probably use a PIC unless someone has a better idea. The end of January time frame is for the first prototype board, the software will take a bit longer! - Charles G4GUO From wd5ivd@tapr.org Sat Dec 26 11:23:29 1998 Received: from [207.43.172.66] ([207.43.172.66]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA28512 for ; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 11:23:28 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 11:20:51 -0600 To: " Spread Spectrum " From: "Greg Jones, WD5IVD" Subject: TEST Testing a change in the list setup. Please IGNORE AND DELETE. Cheers - Greg ----- Greg Jones, WD5IVD Austin, Texas wd5ivd@tapr.org http://www.tapr.org/~wd5ivd From wd5ivd@tapr.org Sun Dec 27 15:21:54 1998 Received: from [207.43.172.66] ([207.43.172.66]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA19672; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 15:21:52 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 15:21:42 -0600 To: " Spread Spectrum " From: "Greg Jones, WD5IVD" Subject: Proxim Symphony now supported under Linux Cc: Jeff King This from Jeff. Had a little problem with the message.id file on the list. Should be fixed now. Greg ----- From: Jeff King Subject: Proxim Symphony now supported under Linux I thought this might be of interest to some on the list. The Proxim Symphony is a low cost (~$145 ISA street) frequency hopping 2.45ghz spread spectrum NIC card. It was targeted at the WINTEL market for in home wireless networks. Stated range is about 150 feet. Output power is lower then the Rangelan. Web site is http://www.proxim.com I don't have any specs on this card. I think a few on this list have these cards. How well do they work? Is it possible to get a external connector on the thing? I've not yet purchased one, but have been speaking with the author of the driver for some time about this support. Its here now so I think I will be picking up a few to see if they are useful to amateurs/Part 15 experimenters.. Regards, Jeff wb8wka ******* lsm file ****** Begin3 Title: rl2 Version: 1.4.3 Entered-date: 10 December 1998 Description: A driver for the Proxim RangeLAN2 ISA, mini-ISA, and Micro-ISA cards. The 7200 and 7400 PC Cards are not yet supported. Also supports Symphony PnP ISA. Proprietary components are in library form. Not intended for distribution under GPL since some parts are not available in source. Keywords: driver kernel rl2 proxim symphony rangelan2 Author: n/a (Proxim, Inc.) loomer@1000klub.com (Paul Chinn) Maintained-by: davek@komacke.com (Dave Koberstein) Primary-site: ftp://ftp.komacke.com/pub/linux/ Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.1000klub.com/pub ~65k rl2-1.4.3.tgz ~1k rl2-1.4.3.lsm Copying-policy: copy away as long as you don't call Proxim for support End **** announcement from author ****** ----- Greg Jones, WD5IVD Austin, Texas wd5ivd@tapr.org http://www.tapr.org/~wd5ivd From ssampson@usa-site.net Sun Dec 27 16:57:13 1998 Received: from access.usa-site.net (access.usa-site.net [209.140.34.130]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA23375 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 16:57:08 -0600 (CST) Received: from dodge (dodge.usa-site.net [209.140.34.135]) by access.usa-site.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA23034 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 16:57:08 -0600 Message-ID: <000401be31ec$1a9ea500$01404e2c@dodge.usa-site.net> From: "Steve Sampson" To: Subject: Re: [SS:164] Proxim Symphony now supported under Linux Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 16:56:13 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Yes, the connector on the ISA cards is very easy to access, and connect a pig-tail to. Just cut off the antenna from the coax, put on a BNC, and run it to the roof and outside beam :-) I like the product, works well in my home, and speed is quite acceptable. A Linux port is interesting news! Thanks for the pointer. Steve From ssampson@usa-site.net Sun Dec 27 17:05:45 1998 Received: from access.usa-site.net (access.usa-site.net [209.140.34.130]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA23799 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:05:44 -0600 (CST) Received: from dodge (dodge.usa-site.net [209.140.34.135]) by access.usa-site.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA23055 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:05:48 -0600 Message-ID: <000101be31ed$50a5b5c0$01404e2c@dodge.usa-site.net> From: "Steve Sampson" To: Subject: Re: Linux and Symphony/RangeLAN Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:04:53 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 I tried the Linux site for the Proxim driver, and it looks like it changed: ftp://ftp.komacke.com/pub/rl2isa-driver/ 73, Steve From jeff@aerodata.net Sun Dec 27 17:56:11 1998 Received: from aerodata.net (aerodata.mich.com [198.108.18.17]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA25703; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:56:09 -0600 (CST) Received: from aerodata.net (darla.aerodata.net [198.108.18.21]) by aerodata.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA09048; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 20:20:57 -0500 Message-ID: <3686C96D.71A0D82C@aerodata.net> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 18:57:33 -0500 From: Jeff King Organization: Aero Data Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win98; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Spread Spectrum CC: "Greg Jones, WD5IVD" Subject: Re: Proxim Symphony now supported under Linux References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Here is the rest of it, it got cutoff from the repost you did for me, Greg. Hopefully it makes it to the list. -Jeff **** announcement from author ****** >From Dave: > Hi All, > > I've finally released a new version of the driver - 1.4.3. It now supports the Symphony PnP ISA card. Here's a fairly complete list of changes: > > - added support for Jean Tourrilhes' wireless extensions to > kernel. Read about it at > http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/jt/Linux/Linux.Wireless.html > and download the tools at ftp://hyper.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia/contrib. Support > isn't complete yet. > - realized that the RangeLAN2 MicroISA *is* supported. Silly me. README updated. > - provided hooks for several new parameters. README and params.doc tell you about > them. > - added a note in README on how to support multiple cards in one machine. > - studied Alan Cox's sample driver and made some changes. Don't know that anything > is much different. One thing to look at if you've had crashes is if there was > anything associated with LLSReceiveLookAhead. It now checks for buffer- > allocation failures. > - added more stats reporting - both regular enet stuff and wireless ext. stuff. > - added ability to set roaming configuraiton and MAC Optimize, like in Win95 driver > - slightly changed rl2cfg - you don't need to specify node type to set the other > parameters > - fixed a security hole - now checks if you are su before changing parameters > - fixed the bug where if you choose the wrong base address, it will crash the > kernel > - the bug fix above changed some expire values (it was using HZ wrong). Might also > fix other obscure bugs reported that I haven't been able to recreate. > - added support for Symphony PnP ISA card. > - changed default irq to 11. 15 is too commonly used for a second IDE controller. > > Unfortunately, it does not support the PC Card. I believe the library will support it but when I worked with Mark Podlipec, we had trouble getting the ISR registered correctly. If you think you are good with PC Card drivers, take a look at rl2lls.c and let me know if you think you can do it. There are two variables that need to be set for the library and I'd be glad to fill you in on those. > > Have fun with it. Remember, Proxim doesn't support it so don't call them. > > Davek From wd5ivd@tapr.org Tue Dec 29 00:58:40 1998 Received: from [207.43.172.66] ([207.43.172.66]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA01477; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 00:58:33 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 00:57:57 -0600 To: "HF SIG list mailing", " Spread Spectrum ", " TAPR/AMSAT DSP ", "APRS SIG list mailing", "NETSIG list mailing", "BBS SIG list mailing", " tacgps ", aprsnews, mic-e, TAPR Regional Freq From: "Greg Jones, WD5IVD" Subject: TAPR FTP Site Cc: "Bill Westradio Pasternak", "Len KB7LPW Winkler", "Hap KC9RP RAIN Holly", "Greg Jones WD5IVD" , "Rich CQ VHF", "Gagne, Jennifer, N1TDY" , "Donald Rotolo"<73227.2644@compuserve.com>, "Stan Horzepa", " Bob Hansen (TAPR) ", "Ham Radio On-line" , " Tom McDermott ", , "Brad Smith, KC5SP" Please be aware that the TAPR FTP site (ftp://ftp.tapr.org) has undergone a major reorganization as part of the upcoming web site restructuring and redesign. If you have links on web pages that reference into our ftp site, please take a moment to check them and update those URLs to reflect the changes at our site. The shallower directory structure should make things easier for individuals visiting our site to find files and information. Sorry for any inconvenience this might cause. Cheers - Greg Jones, WD5IVD TAPR ---- The new FTP directory structure: ftp://ftp.tapr.org Top Level: aprssig/ WinMacData/ aprsnews/ dosstuff/ APRSdos/ DOSmisc/ garmin/ history/ javastuff/ linux/ macstuff/ MacAPRS/ MacGPS/ MacMisc/ PacketTracker/ mail_archive/ maps/ 100K_Not_On_CD/ MacMaps/ PCMaps/ WinMacMaps/ mic-e/ movies/ palmstuff/ palmaprs/ palmmaps/ palmmisc/ palmos/ presentations/ shlib/ upload/ winstuff/ APRSPLUS/ Waypoint/ WinAPRS/ WinMisc/ bbssig/ mail_archive/ das/ mail_archive/ dcc/ dsp/ dsp56000/ dsp56001/ dsp56002/ mail_archive/ psa_sound_card/ recent_uploads/ tms320c10/ tms320c26/ tms320c50/ upload/ dsp93/ Paccomm_eproms/ diskettes/ dsp93_eproms/ mail_archive/ manuals/ schems/ simulators/ software/ software.list source/ stlouis.wrkshp.95/ updates/ upload/ util/ general/ 9600baud/ ALINCO/ ICOM/ KENWOOD/ MOTOROLA/ YEASU/ gps/ HPAN52-2/ garmin/ motorola/ hfsig/ mail_archive/ info/ kits/ logos/ publications/ netsig/ mail_archive/ psr/ pub/ regional_freq/ mail_archive/ software_lib/ DEMOS/ Linux/ RF/ UPLOAD/ an93/ bbs/ dsp/ gps/ listing misc/ sat/ switch/ tcpip/ terminal/ thenet.txt tnc/ utils/ weather/ ss/ mail_archive/ SS_STA/ dcc97_ss_seminar/ tac2/ mail_archive/ talnet/ tapr-bb/ mail_archive/ tapr-tnc/ mail_archive/ utils/ ----- Greg Jones, WD5IVD Austin, Texas wd5ivd@tapr.org http://www.tapr.org/~wd5ivd From wd5ivd@tapr.org Tue Dec 29 15:59:17 1998 Received: from [207.43.172.66] ([207.43.172.66]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA13682; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:59:15 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:59:11 -0600 To: " Spread Spectrum " From: "Greg Jones, WD5IVD" Subject: TAPR FHSS Project Update Cc: "Bill Westradio Pasternak", "Hap KC9RP RAIN Holly", "Rich CQ VHF", "Donald Rotolo"<73227.2644@compuserve.com>, "Stan Horzepa", "Ham Radio On-line" , " Tom McDermott ", , "Brad Smith, KC5SP" , "Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ" The TAPR SS Web page has had a major update today. http://www.tapr.org/ss The SS audio page has been updated to include all the new audio we have on Spread Spectrum issues over the last several months. I also did a major rewrite of the TAPR FHSS Project Page (http://www.tapr.org/tapr/html/taprfhss.html) The information presented on the page should be easier to view and see what is happening timeline wise. Now for the Report: TAPR 900MHz FHSS Radio Design Update December 20th, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The development group meet for a social/review meeting on November 28th, 1998. The goal of the meeting was to have some food and discuss the project. As of the meeting, the RF board is transmitting a QPSK modulated signal on a single frequency of 913MHz. Basic functionality has been demonstrated; however, there's a lot more to test on the TX side of the design. There has been really good progress made in a short period of time. This was a major milestone reached. Work will start to check out the receiver when the transmitter is a little further along. This testing will be more difficult, but since a lot of the circuitry is common there is less to check out. A second unit will have to be completed, including known modifications to the PCB, for this testing. The digital board CPU, network interface, and the Qualcomm forward error correcting (FEC) chip Q1900 is working. We are also able to communicate with the QPSK decoder registers. Initial testing indicated that a more elaborate PLD solution would be required to support the high speed phase adjustments and to support the odd clocking required for FEC. A design is completed and ready for test and debug. A small PCB will be built to test this before we make another pass at the digital PCB. The group has discovered that high-speed phase adjustment is required for the Harris QPSK demodulator. The PLD has some 350-500 gates of logic. The group has been very happy with the performance of the Qualcomm part. Thanks to Frank Anontio, N6NKF, for his assistance in getting us the samples we require for the project. The Software/Firmware is in place to handle the key networking interface and to continue radio testing. Current plan is to use an HTTP interface to control and test the radio functions. A PC based tool to interface with the radio using UDP packets also works. The httpd software on the radio is working and the radios basic parameters can be accessed via a web page and reconfigured. Also, the group has decided to use a Dallas Semiconductor Button part in the project. The "button" is a two wire interface which provides a registered MAU ethernet address for the radio. The function of the hardware and software is so complex that each small section of the radio must be proven before we can move on to the next issue. The projects moves forward, but as each small step is taken we can see just how much more work will be required before we have a fully functioning high-speed radio available. Until the next report. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Status update for the FHSS radio project. 1. The SPI driver is written and working. The protocol module for the interface to the PLD is written, but cannot be tested until the PLD is ready, and that's a ways down the road. 2. HTTP/1.0 daemon is written and code to send/receive HTML files is working. This allows using a web-browser to read the configuration from the kernel and updating some of the parameters. The final parameter save portion is just stubbed off right now until we settle on how they are stored and configured in memory. But we can demo the operation from a browser and it looks nice. 3. Further testing of the Ethernet performance is occurring. We are starting to write a layer-2 demultiplexer in the TCP/IP stack. The current XINU stack only performs layer-3 routing and has no layer-2 functionality. This will then feed some new software that does segmentation of the ethernet frame to fit into the radio's 10 millisecond transmit periods and then encapsulate it with the radio link protocol. Layer-2 demultiplexing will probably require some frame cloning on ethernet packets containing broadcast addresses (sending the copy to layer-3). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tucson Amateur Packet Radio, 8987-309 E. Tanque Verde Road, Tucson, AZ 85749-9399. Phone: (940) 383-0000. Fax: (940) 566-2544. Internet: TAPR@TAPR.ORG ----- Greg Jones, WD5IVD Austin, Texas wd5ivd@tapr.org http://www.tapr.org/~wd5ivd From coccpce@mail.nauta.it Wed Dec 30 00:52:54 1998 Received: from mail.nauta.it (root@tamata.NAUTA.IT [194.21.179.2]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA27880 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 00:52:50 -0600 (CST) Received: from mail.nauta.it (coccpce.nauta.it [194.21.180.3]) by mail.nauta.it (8.8.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA24131 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 07:52:41 +0100 Message-ID: <36891BB6.929B1A6F@mail.nauta.it> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:13:11 +0100 From: Stefano Coccon Organization: P.C.E. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ss@tapr.org Subject: Re: [SS:168] TAPR FTP Site References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit dear Greg, Thanks for the note; I have already experienced some problem. I'll wait for the reorganization. Have my best wishes for an happy new year and please extend my wishes to all the staff at TAPR. 73 - Stefano - IV3URK -member #5940 Greg Jones, WD5IVD wrote: > Please be aware that the TAPR FTP site (ftp://ftp.tapr.org) has undergone a > major reorganization as part of the upcoming web site restructuring and > redesign. > > If you have links on web pages that reference into our ftp site, please > take a moment to check them and update those URLs to reflect the changes at > our site. > > The shallower directory structure should make things easier for individuals > visiting our site to find files and information. > > Sorry for any inconvenience this might cause. > > Cheers - Greg Jones, WD5IVD > TAPR > > ---- > > The new FTP directory structure: > > ftp://ftp.tapr.org > Top Level: > aprssig/ > WinMacData/ > aprsnews/ > dosstuff/ > APRSdos/ > DOSmisc/ > garmin/ > history/ > javastuff/ > linux/ > macstuff/ > MacAPRS/ > MacGPS/ > MacMisc/ > PacketTracker/ > mail_archive/ > maps/ > 100K_Not_On_CD/ > MacMaps/ > PCMaps/ > WinMacMaps/ > mic-e/ > movies/ > palmstuff/ > palmaprs/ > palmmaps/ > palmmisc/ > palmos/ > presentations/ > shlib/ > upload/ > winstuff/ > APRSPLUS/ > Waypoint/ > WinAPRS/ > WinMisc/ > > bbssig/ > mail_archive/ > > das/ > mail_archive/ > > dcc/ > > dsp/ > dsp56000/ > dsp56001/ > dsp56002/ > mail_archive/ > psa_sound_card/ > recent_uploads/ > tms320c10/ > tms320c26/ > tms320c50/ > upload/ > > dsp93/ > Paccomm_eproms/ > diskettes/ > dsp93_eproms/ > mail_archive/ > manuals/ > schems/ > simulators/ > software/ > software.list > source/ > stlouis.wrkshp.95/ > updates/ > upload/ > util/ > > general/ > 9600baud/ > ALINCO/ > ICOM/ > KENWOOD/ > MOTOROLA/ > YEASU/ > > gps/ > HPAN52-2/ > garmin/ > motorola/ > > hfsig/ > mail_archive/ > > info/ > kits/ > logos/ > publications/ > > netsig/ > mail_archive/ > > psr/ > > pub/ > > regional_freq/ > mail_archive/ > > software_lib/ > DEMOS/ > Linux/ > RF/ > UPLOAD/ > an93/ > bbs/ > dsp/ > gps/ > listing > misc/ > sat/ > switch/ > tcpip/ > terminal/ > thenet.txt > tnc/ > utils/ > weather/ > > ss/ > mail_archive/ > SS_STA/ > dcc97_ss_seminar/ > > tac2/ > mail_archive/ > > talnet/ > > tapr-bb/ > mail_archive/ > > tapr-tnc/ > mail_archive/ > > utils/ > > ----- > Greg Jones, WD5IVD Austin, Texas > wd5ivd@tapr.org http://www.tapr.org/~wd5ivd From Stan_Horzepa@adc.com Wed Dec 30 12:58:20 1998 Received: from smtp.adc.com (smtp.adc.com [155.226.10.207]) by tapr.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA01622; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:58:17 -0600 (CST) Received: from mplsgtwy01.adc.com (mplsgtwy01.adc.com [155.226.11.222]) by smtp.adc.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA00407; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:58:16 -0600 (CST) Received: by mplsgtwy01.adc.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:56:42 -0600 Message-ID: <1B66FFC6BE1CD211A0620008C7A42AC21EF760@MRDNEXCH01.ct.adc.com> From: "Horzepa, Stan" To: AO16APRS , APRS-FL , APRSNEWS , APRSSIG , BBSSIG , DSP sig , HFSIG , HTAPRS , MIC-E sig , NETSIG , PROPNET sig , REGIONAL_FREQ sig , SS sig , TACGPS sig , TAPR-BB sig , TAPR-TNC Subject: New SIG for the Kenwood THD7A/E Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:57:46 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" TAPR is pleased to announce the formation of a new special interest group, the HTAPRS SIG. The purpose of HTAPRS is to provide a forum for the discussion of issues related to the Kenwood THD7A/E transceiver. (HTAPRS is also intended to lessen the number of messages on TAPR's APRSSIG by moving THD7A/E traffic off that SIG.) To subscribe to the HTAPRS mail list, send email to listserv@tapr.org with the following text in the body of the message: subscribe htaprs your_first_name your_last_name