[Coco] Ham Radio for the CoCo

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 23 March 2018 15:18:41 Stephen Fischer wrote:

> It's the delayed interest in running Ham Radio Software on CoCo's.
>
> I added to the interest by finding my CoCo2 SSTV, Fax, Wefax, RTTY and
> CW software I purchased plus the remaining booklet of A5's CoCo2
> articles by Clay Abrams (Hell on Wheels in Person but his face would
> win an award).
>
> I checked and no one (NO ONE) contacted the author of the CoCo3 WEFax
> software.
>
> So what people want they just give up at some point.
>
> Don't read too much into the the discussions here, they may likely
> never go anywhere which will require much interest to making available
> what I have.
>
> SHF

I had the coco2 wefax running at the tv station for about a month. but 
the weather folks we had were only doing rip and read & from ap/upi, and 
had little or no interest in the maps I gave them, so that project got 
retired. I'm not sure if the service is even on the air anymore, and I 
don't have an rx for it anyway.
>
> On 3/23/2018 12:00 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> > Why the sudden interest in KA9Q?  I worked with it a lot
> >
> > (even maintained the Xenix port for a while) but never
> >
> > had any luck getting any hams interested in running it.
> >
> > Took a lot of flack for even trying.

What I did, seemed to be with a dead microphone at the time, and without 
some sort of a frame synch, which apparently didn't exist in '87 or so, 
wasn't terribly usefull even to me.  No clue what additional development 
there may be by today.
> >
> > bill  KB3YV
> >
> > On 03/23/2018 02:45 PM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
> >> KA9Q is on the RTSI FTP, I believe.
> >>
> >> L. Curtis Boyle
> >> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
> >>
> >>> On Mar 23, 2018, at 9:17 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Friday 23 March 2018 09:55:37 Jason Reighard wrote:
> >>>> I've found a few.  The coco radio package and some others. I've
> >>>> been working on a blog entry on cocoman.org. unfortunately I have
> >>>> yet to finish it. As far as packet goes I used a coco 3 with a
> >>>> terminal program (ultimaterm) and a kpc-3 TNC back in the day. I
> >>>> remember hearing rumors of an OS-9 port of KA9Q NOS but I'm
> >>>> unsure if it ever existed.
> >>>>
> >>>> Jason KBSFC
> >>>
> >>> It exists Jason, but won't build on my coco3. Thats also where it
> >>> is, on one or both of the 1 GB hard drives on it.
> >>>
> >>> I don't have a copy on this machine, darnit. google can't find it?
> >>>
> >>> DuckDuckGo had no problem finding this:
> >>>
> >>> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/ka9q.mirror/>
> >>>
> >>> Who knows, maybe this one would build?
> >>>
> >>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 9:36 AM Jerry Adams
> >>>> <jerry.adams.my at gmail.com>
> >>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>> I also wanted Ham Radio software for the CoCo.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [Snip]
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >>> --
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> >>>
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-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>