Been fooling with Ubuntu for a couple of months and doing fine withInternet and networking. My biggest problem is to quit thinking interms of Windows/DOS but just cannot understand some of the lingo.My query is; Is there a simple communications terminal programavailable for use with Ubuntu, serial ports and MFJ or KantronicsTNCs, such as Hyper Terminal in Windows, and how do you install?Help will be appreciated.
Google "linux serial port": I foundhttp://www.jls-info.com/julien/linux/ to be of interest as it describesa utility called gtkterm.Run "apt-get install gtkterm"
I'm also a ham, looking for something that will let me remote-base myFT-847 back home, at least on VHF/UHF. It would need to do rigcontrol, plus audio in both directions. I have the system, and canbuild whatever hardware might be needed.
Radio-Frequency Builders,As I like building my own receivers, transmitters, and just plaingadgets, I use the Professor Coyle spreadsheet to analyze existinginductors and design new ones. You can download the Excel version fromwww.crystalradio.net/professorcoyle/index.shtmland use the Open Office spreadsheet to save it as OO file. (Thedownload version is below the seb-based versions.)