KD5NJR's Monday Night

I spent Monday evening checking the radio out prior to Maker Faire. Mostly just common sense stuff.

• Located the radio, power cord and whip antenna among the stuff we took on vacation.
• Found the radio / computer interface.
• Started the UZ7HO soundmodem program
• Verified I had UZ7HO set to listen to the external mic jack on the laptop.
• Verified I was getting audio from the radio into the computer by looking for "noise" on the UZ7HO waterfall when I cracked the radio's squelch.
• Verified Windows and UZ7HO agreed with what COM port the radio interface was set to.
• Set the radio to PKT mode. (Yaesu)
• Finally I set the radio to 144.390 Mhz. I also set UZ7HO for 1200 baud. In a moment I saw the text of APRS packets.

It didn't take me long to get UZ7HO talking to the APRSIS32 mapping program.
After a while I was satified that APRS was working. So I tuned the radio to 145.01 Mhz.

For "packet radio" I used the EasyTerm program that bundled with Soundmodem ... more on packet later.

73

Scott

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