Notices

Personally, I can think of a few ham radio applications where an N800 could work well, but realistically, I think you're better off with a small, cheap (<=$500) laptop -- even something like an Asus eee PC if you really want to minimize space. Most amateur radio software requires one or more of the following:

-- Significant keyboard input (logging software, digital text modes)
-- Decent audio input/output capabilties ("soundcard decoding" modes)
-- Serial port and/or digital I/O capabilities

The Nokia tablets don't do any of these things particularly well out of the box; you need to add, e.g., a Bluetooth keyboard, USB sound card, and USB serial adapters to add them. So while you can certainly make it work, why not just use a small laptop and immediately get it all? (Or at least all but a serial port?)

I have nothing but encouragement for the people who want to do this, though -- just trying to explain why I don't think that many people are actually doing it!

---Joel

Oh I could definitely see why they aren't. It would be more of a "dude check this out"...than a practical use device in terms of digital modes.

I've edited my earlier post and added a link to a kernel built for the latest Diablo SSU version 4.2008.36-5 with AX.25 support as previously described. As before, only tested on an N800, booting from SD. Seems good with kissattach, listen, mheard etc. all running as expected, using the original debs I've provided.

cheers,
fnord

What about porting EchoLink??? It will be nice on a portable device like N8XX.

Random tip: save this SWF file on your NIT and open it with microB:

http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/to...touchtones.swf

Crank up the volume. No need for a DTMF mic anymore!

(just place your NIT close to the mic, key up and dial away)

Finally.. APRS in Maemo-Mapper and I have it working.

N810, various USB to Serial gizmos, an OpenTracker+ in KISS mode.. and I'm in business with two-way APRS.

Are you sending packets through a raw terminal such as screen?

Hey guys, check out the attached file. It will take a long time (30min?) to import all these POI's to maemo mapper. Just create a POI for catagory ham repeaters and import the GPX files. Once you do this, you'll have POI's listing most of the repeaters in the country! The csv files were taken from http://www.poi-factory.com and converted to gpx files maemo mapper understands. Enjoy.

EDIT: You can also use this tool to import and manage your POI's:

http://www.rikcull.f2s.com/

Excellent, and thank you!

Got it loaded up and it wasn't even close to an hour on my 810.

Now that it's in there... is there a source for the Tone data so it could be added to the POIs as well?

Thanks,

-Tom
KE7VUX

Hold down on the POI, then go to view/edit POI and the tone will be listed. You can also add other cvs files from poi-factory to maemo mapper by using this online conversion tool http://www.poieditor.com/poi_convert/garmin-csv-to-gpx/ or GPSBabel http://www.gpsbabel.org/download.html I believe someone ported GPSBabel to Maemo, but I can't find it.