Has anyone made the move? I'm thinking of leaving the ceremic resonator as is and using Ivar's bootloader... www.johnsrud.no/pic I have a PIC Programmer kit...
I just put together my first PicPac. Now what? I found the picpac.zip file but it contains quite a few hex files. Which one do I want to load to make this...
I am looking for a low power interface to get a remote Davis Vantage Pro weather station on to APRS. Looks like the PICPAC has enough horsepower to handle it....
Great Byon! Do you have an target release date? I have a camper parked at 7450' elevation and want to get a weather station out there before it starts...
Hello there all, does anyone has done something in respect of telemetry and the picpac, like voltage reading, temperature etc? It would be nice to have a way...
whats diffrence between Tinytrak3 and PicPac??? was wondering... does anyone know about MIO160 Pocket computers/GPS all in one??? http://thefalconsnest.fly.to...
My kit was waiting for me when I got home at 11 last night, so I had to put it together and start playing :-) It works (at least the self tests). I've got 3...
... No, it is not available yet. There is C sample code for many of the parts. ... Yes. ... It was so it could be plugged into a computer without adapters....
... the parts. ... I've found alot of the samples and I'm attempting to get something working :-) I'm teaching myself all of this as I go so bear with me ...
Get Microchips MPLAB, then download their C compiler. Thats what I'm playing with now. It has been said that the demo compiler, once used for the 30 demo ...
I tried that but when using the demo compiler for the 18 it gives me all kinds of errors with the chip statements and such from the sample source. Josh ... ...
I finally got to build up my picpac this evening. It passed the diagnostics, beeps nicely, and I can download - I tried downloading "decod1.hex" from the files...
Ah, got it working. I did my usual trick of forgetting to turn off power-save mode on my HT. My picpac has heard and decoded my PocketTracker! Not much other...
I'm looking for hints about getting my picpac set up well. It's been hooked up to my HT in my 10th floor office for about 45 minutes, listening to lots of APRS...
Chris, many of us have replaced R1 with a 22K instead of the 100K that comes with the kit. This allows for a wider voulme range. I had the same problems,...
Well, I tried changing R2 so both R1 and R2 are 100K, as outlined in message 241, and "flew in" a 100pF cap between pins 8 and 16 of the MX614. Still no joy. I...
I may just have to recognize that receiving packet inside my house doesn't work very well :-) I've now got my PICPAC and VX-5 sitting in a 10th floor office ...
Chris, if you refer back to my message I said to change R1 to a 22K and that should greatly improve the decode rate, it did for me. Jason KE4NYV www.ke4nyv.com...
Lucio wrote me and suggested increasing the bypass cap for the MX614 power to 0.1uF, and said that pins 5&6 *must* have a 100pF. I did those two things ...
I've just assembled/linked DECODE1 and can decode packets from the air and squirt them down the serial line however I can't seem to get UI-View (free version)...
This morning was in my postal office box my Pocketaprs and Picpac. Now it´s time to assemble them and to share my experience. 73 de Al, XE1NK - EA1DLD xe1nk...
Sorry guys, this jerk has been banned and removed. I review everyone that wants to join. I guess one might slip in under my nose now and then. Kind of hard...
I just got my picpac, put it together, and tested it successfully. But is i play with it, i understand that i have to learn myself programming - i was not...
Does anybody have a sample of decode1 convert to C yet? I'm trying to slowly learn how this thing works but I'm not having any luck with asm. I realize there...
Hi om! I am getting really desperated thanks to windows xp! My picpac is mounted and it reboots ok. But I cannot load any sw on it because on my terminal...