From: Hamish Moffatt (tsgqzhf.rlyzkxoe@ztp-gw.zielman.pl)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 04:34:47 EET
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 03:53:58PM +0100, Gerd wrote:
> There are some good reasons to still use something like BayCom in our days.
> The first reason is: There are still frequencies that one cannot operate more than
> 1200 bps on, due to bandwidth limitations, for example.
soundmodem supports 1200 AFSK just fine. I use it at home.
> The second reason is that the SoundModem driver must be considered experimental, and
> is sometimes not easy to set up. Even more, it seems that Thomas's support for that
Perhaps it is not easy to set up, but it is quite reliable once
configured. I have not had any problems running smdiag on linux 2.2.12,
although I did not try to compile it with that kernel (but used an older
binary). I think Craig has said it will return in the next ax25-tools.
> The fourth reason is that the (few) soundcard designs supposed to work with
> SoundModem are not available any more. That is because ISA cards are generally
Yes this a real problem. Somebody needs to work on it; it's open source,
so it doesn't have to be Tom. Ideally, it would work with the
standard sound drivers (either OSS or ALSA).
Hamish
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