>
> I am looking at another modem manufacturer for HF operation: Halcomm
> (http://www.halcomm.com/). Their modems natively use the CLOVER
> protocol, but also have a "P-mode", which is claimed to be 100%
> compatible with the PACTOR protocol. So hopefully one can kill two
> birds with one stone. The external modem is around $400 and about $300
> for the internal PC card.
>
> They too only have code for Windows, however as soon I can get hold of
> some of these modems, I will be working on a packet driver for Linux.
There are two versions of PACTOR, PACTOR-I and PACTOR-II. I recall from
some QST articles that PACTOR-II had quite good performance. IIRC, CLOVER
was a ways back and PACTOR-I was not quite as good as CLOVER.
The problem here is that both PACTOR-II and CLOVER are proprietary
protocols. I guess after using Linux for nearly five years I have a
real problem with that (also APRS).
Bob
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