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iPhone Interface For Ham Radio Mates Old With New

Posted by timothy on from the wait-a-second-for-it-to-get-back-from-space dept.

jjp9999 writes "By using the same technology found in older modems, Thomas Tumino, vice president of the Hall of Science Amateur Radio Club, has invented an iPhone interface for ham radios. He told The Epoch Times, 'Today there are iPhone apps where you can use the systems in the phone — and its sound card, which is being used as a modem ... And then you connect that into your radio with an interface like this, that just isolates the telephone from the radio, and then you can do all sorts of things.'"

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  1. iLawsuit by oldhack · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know what this story is about, but there is a lawsuit in there somewhere.

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  2. This is new? by Ozoner · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's good to see people doing stuff, but this article is a decade or two out of date.

    Hams have been hooking computers to radios for a long, long time.

    There are hundreds of pages on digital radio and sound card interfacing:
      try
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSK31
    http://hfradio.org.uk/html/digital_modes.html
    http://www.tapr.org/packetradio.html
    http://www.dxzone.com/catalog/Technical_Reference/Sound_Card_Radio_Interfacing/