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A link to this video got posted to the Toronto CBM and since it's VIC-related, I'm posting it. It's a ham radio setup that uses a VIC-20 (to do what, I don't know). Check it out here.

I have that brown box with the LED's flashing. Its a "Kantronics -- The Interface" rtty, cw, uP.

I just dont have any software for it. It plugs in to the game port.

Im a ham and would like to play with it some.

People use the beacons to tell when there is band opening. If you can hear a long away beacon then chances are conditions are good to make a contact to that part of the world.

http://www.ac6v.com/beacons.htm

Its looks like the software was called "Radiotap". It came on a cart. Anyone have a image?

http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/i ... And_64.php

I have a MicroLog Air-1 and can provide a dump of that eprom.

I use it periodically with Icom R71-A receiver.

I had a Kantronics cart board that I took the EPROM off of and converted to a diag cart board.

You want a dump of the EPROM? Give me your email address on a PM and I"ll send it to you.

RJ

thanks!

Sent!

Seems I had already dumped it but forgot I did... It was a simple matter of just attaching it to an email and sending it.

Hope it works well for you.

RJ

What was the callsign of the station and its frequency?

I used to listen to 10 meters beacon with my CB transceiver; I remember a south african one ("ZS6PW" or something) that was very loud here in Italy.

channelmaniac wrote:Sent!

Seems I had already dumped it but forgot I did... It was a simple matter of just attaching it to an email and sending it.

Hope it works well for you.

RJ

ok. I got it thanks!

Do i have to burn it to a eprom or is there a way i can run this from a disk?

Im guessing its a .bin file. I searched around the site and found that i could "echo -e -n '\x00\x40' | cat - file.bin > file.prg" to make it a prg. I did that and copyed the bin and "prg" to a 1541 floppy. I goto my vic and do a load "radio",8,1 and get no errors. I then sys40960 and the vic just hangs. I tryed with and with out my 16K expander in there.

Am i way off here?

http://cralt.com/vic/radiotap.bin is the file i got in the email. 4096 bytes.
http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... c&start=15 is where i got some hints from... but its mostly greek to me.
Oh well. Im gona start building the interface cable for my HF rig

Well my hardware seems good to go. The interface seems to work and its wired to my TS570d
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jSVcD70IS0

Just need to get this bin to start...

I have not seen schematic of the interface board, I'm pretty sure you will need to burn this to eprom.

If you want to try from disk:

Take eprom dump, then (assuming it is /blk5), use a hex editor to add load address bytes to bin file - insert 00 A0 at first of eprom bin file.

Then save this to floppy disk.

With 8K ram expansion located in /BLK5 space:

load "bin file name",8,1

then - sys64802

Good luck!

Oh well looks like this project is halted for now

I added 00 A0 to the start of http://cralt.com/vic/radiotap.bin and no matter how i setup the memery in VICE i get a READY prompt when trying to start it at different addresses.

The real vic hangs or also gives me a "READY" prompt with my 8K and 16K ram carts. :-/

I had a look at the bin image.

It is not autostart.

I don't have time right now to try disassembly to find start address and where this fits in memory map.
Maybe someone can help out with this.

Attach the .bin file as a cart image at $A000 then SYS 40960 to start.

Expansion RAM is not needed.

Lee.

Making a .prg file by appending $00,$A0 to the start of the .bin file, loading it into RAM then doing SYS 40960 also works.

This obviously needs RAM in BLK5

Lee.