During my recent visit to Ray Carlsen, he gave me a big box of software, mostly VIC-20 cartridges. I finally sat down to look at them, and there were a bunch of cartridges that I had never heard of. I showed them at our Sunday FCUG meeting, and our club expert in ham radio declared that the carts were for ham radio operators. The typewritten labeling said that all of the carts were from Kustom Computer Response, Rt. 1, Box 57A, Helotes, Texas 78023. All of them seemed programmed by Harry M. Crouse. All of them were from 1987 and were either marked SN #1 or SN #2. Here is a list of the carts --
ARRLDXTEST
ARRLDXTEST - CW
CQDXTEST
CQDXTEST - CW
CQWPXTEST
CQWPXTEST - CW
QCWA LOG CW (with additional cassette marked W5GSQ)
Most of them came with printed BASIC listings, and one or two came with instructions.
I have given over the carts to our club expert so he could study them. He says that because the call sign is still there, perhaps the ham operator is still around.
I will post a photo of one of the carts later.
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
Various VIC-20 carts for Ham radio operators
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Re: Various VIC-20 carts for Ham radio operators
I've been told that ARRL stands for Amateur Radio Relay League, a club which started in 1914. ARRL produced various publications and magazines.
As for the carts, their purpose was for amateur radio competitions in the score-keeping of points are saved in logs. So, the carts have database functions that save the results to cassette tape. A 16K expansion is recommended so that more information can be recorded.
One or some of the carts have a sending capability where you connect the VIC-20 audio out to the ham radio mic in for Morse code transmission (e.g. F1 = send message or call). I can be more specific on which carts when I find out more from our club expert.
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
As for the carts, their purpose was for amateur radio competitions in the score-keeping of points are saved in logs. So, the carts have database functions that save the results to cassette tape. A 16K expansion is recommended so that more information can be recorded.
One or some of the carts have a sending capability where you connect the VIC-20 audio out to the ham radio mic in for Morse code transmission (e.g. F1 = send message or call). I can be more specific on which carts when I find out more from our club expert.
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan