Re: Heath Pocket Packet

[nielsen@primenet.com (Bob Nielsen)]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>	Saturday I bought an older 1990 Heathkit Pocket Packet TNC which 
>I found to work fine. But the e-prom with the tapr standard operating 
>instructions did not include a switch to put the tnc into the KISS mode.
>
>	So I just removed the orginal e-prom and installed one with KISS 
>version 4 on it. Alas it would not run... Has anyone been able to put 
>KISS on the Pocket Packet? This tnc with the HP Palmsize computer and a 
>small HT makes the worlds smallest portable NOS station...:-)
>
The Pocket Packet firmware does not include KISS.  A KISS (or TAPR firmware
containing KISS) will not work because the Pocket Packet requires software
setting of the baud rate, etc.

TASCO included KISS in firmware for later versions of this TNC.  I think the
model number was TNC-u21.  Tom Clark had a version with KISS on his old
Tomcat server, but this has been gone for sometime.  Maybe someone else has
it available, or you could contact TASCO.  They no longer have a U.S.
office, however.

73, Bob

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