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Radio Data Link?

ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
edited 2002-11-19 05:30 in General Discussion
Good Afternoon.

I was looking for some help on the feasability of an idea I have had
over on this side of the pond. I have a set of digital walkie
talkies (446MHz) and having played with a signal generator and an
osciloscope I have found that the input and output signal(9600) is
very clear with little to no distortion of the transmitted signal.

My final goal would be to have hypertermial on my PC recieving the
debug readouts from my Stamp on its com port. Does anyone
know how to physically interface these together. Initalialy it would
be half duplex communication from the robot side only. Maybe with a
view to full duplex if I can get it to work. (So I can shift the
processing power off the robot)

The walkie talkies have a microphone socket which I am still waiting
for the technical specs of.

The thought that I had was to connect a modem to my Com1 of the BS
and output the modified(for the correct voltages) signal to the input
of the walkie talkie and then another modem at the other end
connected to Com1 of my PC.

Would this work and has anyone tried to do this before?

Kind regards,

Andy T.

Comments

  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2002-11-18 14:35
    In a message dated 11/18/2002 09:22:19 Eastern Standard Time,
    andrew.thornber@c... writes:


    > My final goal would be to have hypertermial on my PC recieving the
    > debug readouts from my Stamp on its com port. Does anyone
    > know how to physically interface these together. Initalialy it would
    > be half duplex communication from the robot side only. Maybe with a
    > view to full duplex if I can get it to work. (So I can shift the
    > processing power off the robot)
    >

    Interfacing Stamp to Hyper is quite easy. I am attaching a file named TWS.
    Load this file into your Hyper directory, and create an icon on your desktop.
    Load the program you want to run into Stamp, except make the debug statements
    all serout 16, N9600 statements. When the program is running, exit the Stamp
    editor, click on the TWS icon, and the data should start appearing on the
    Hyper screen. If you have any problems contact me off-line. If you don't
    get the download, contact me off line and I will send it again.


    Sid Weaver
    W4EKQ
    Port Richey, FL


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  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2002-11-19 00:55
    To Newzed,
    Since it is a text file, why don't you copy it in the body of your message.
    All attachments are truncated on this list.

    Jan

    Newzed@a... wrote:

    Interfacing Stamp to Hyper is quite easy. I am attaching a file named TWS.

    >Load this file into your Hyper directory, and create an icon on your desktop.
    >Load the program you want to run into Stamp, except make the debug statements
    >all serout 16, N9600 statements. When the program is running, exit the Stamp
    >editor, click on the TWS icon, and the data should start appearing on the
    >Hyper screen. If you have any problems contact me off-line. If you don't
    >get the download, contact me off line and I will send it again.
    >
    >
    >Sid Weaver
    >W4EKQ
    >Port Richey, FL
    >
    >
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2002-11-19 01:00
    In a message dated 11/18/2002 19:58:25 Eastern Standard Time, jmt@a...
    writes:


    > Since it is a text file, why don't you copy it in the body of your message.
    > All attachments are truncated on this list.
    >

    It isn't a text file. It is a Hyperterminal file.

    Sid


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  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2002-11-19 05:30
    I haven't used the walkie talkie methode of communication but I have
    used 433 MHz Lynx modules for one way transfer. They work great if
    you need to log data from a Stamp. They also offer transcievers for
    more $$ but you could use Rx/Tx pair at 433 Mhz and another Rx/Tx
    pair at 315 Mhz to do the same thing.

    Jason


    --- In basicstamps@y..., "thor69uk" <andrew.thornber@c...> wrote:
    > Good Afternoon.
    >
    > I was looking for some help on the feasability of an idea I have
    had
    > over on this side of the pond. I have a set of digital walkie
    > talkies (446MHz) and having played with a signal generator and an
    > osciloscope I have found that the input and output signal(9600) is
    > very clear with little to no distortion of the transmitted signal.
    >
    > My final goal would be to have hypertermial on my PC recieving the
    > debug readouts from my Stamp on its com port. Does anyone
    > know how to physically interface these together. Initalialy it
    would
    > be half duplex communication from the robot side only. Maybe with a
    > view to full duplex if I can get it to work. (So I can shift the
    > processing power off the robot)
    >
    > The walkie talkies have a microphone socket which I am still
    waiting
    > for the technical specs of.
    >
    > The thought that I had was to connect a modem to my Com1 of the BS
    > and output the modified(for the correct voltages) signal to the
    input
    > of the walkie talkie and then another modem at the other end
    > connected to Com1 of my PC.
    >
    > Would this work and has anyone tried to do this before?
    >
    > Kind regards,
    >
    > Andy T.
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