[Xastir] KPC-3+ KISS problem...

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Patrick Domack wrote:

> I hope I understand you correctly, that this seems to be a KPC 3 PLUS only 
> issue and not a KPC3 (non-plus) issue. I know the difference between the two 
> is that the plus uses a software based decoder vs a hardware modem chip.

Also different processors.


> That said, my kpc3 v5.0 has worked flawless for me in kiss, using a 9pin 
> serial cable to a real serialport on a computer. Using linux ax25 stack, and 
> it receives gates around 22k packets to aprs-is per day, and transmits around 
> 900 packets per day to rf.

Good.  I'm using a TNC-X with either the AX.25 stack or more
commonly the Serial KISS TNC interface in Xastir.  Both seem to work
fine.


> I really wish kpc would release the source for their tnc's.

Not much chance of that.  One could certainly write code for their
hardware that was open-source though, using freely available tools.
It'd be quite a project in itself though, doing it from scratch.

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