![]() ![]() The radio powered up and seemed functional but the CMOS battery was completely dead, this meant that any settings I put into the radio were lost when I turned off the power switch. ![]() I brought the IC-28H to my work bench to see if it could be brought back to life. Networking problems prevented us from acting on this plan that night and both the radio and the computer it was attached to sat idle for a decade doing nothing but collecting dust.įast forward to the early spring of 2020 when I discover that my Cambio and Boafeng won't accomplish what I desire. We attached it to a computer in my spare room hoping to remote control the computer to test out the functionality. A good friend of mine, who was the one who got me started in Ham, gave me an Icom IC-28H which had already been used for this purpose. Years ago when I first got started with Ham radio I also wanted to learn packet radio. Unfortunately while this was useful as a proof of concept it wasn't durable enough for reliable use. When I decided to re-engage with packet radio the Cambio seemed a good choice. The project was still important to me so I upgraded to a much more powerful computer and stuffed the Cambio in a drawer. ![]() The computer I show in my hardware setup article above is an RCA Cambio, I purchased this for another project a couple of years ago from WalMart for $99, it worked for couple of years but eventually the software I was running was updated to the point where the Atom processor could no longer keep up. It became apparent to me that I would not be able to eliminate the cross talk, wireless networking was proving ineffective at hosting Echolink, it was introducing too many delays so I needed to use Ethernet, unfortunately not only was my radio setup cheap, so was my computer. ![]()
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