old hardware reminiscers support group

Leonard, Phil Phil.Leonard at dsionline.com
Wed Jan 19 08:58:45 CST 2005


>So anyone ever use any of the HAM radio options
>in the kernel? And what's up with that anyway?
>What use is HAM radio to a computer? Computer generated
>Morse code? Like there's any living mortal that could
>translate that! 

I think the ham radio options in the kernel are for the AX.25 protocol (and maybe some others unique to radio).  AX.25 is an extension to X.25 to allow the addition of a call sign field (gotta keep the FCC happy).

Philip



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