FXDDR@ALASKA.BITNET.UUCP (05/16/87)
Date: Fri, 15 May 87 21:07 ADT From: <FXDDR@ALASKA.BITNET> Subject: Fax and so forth for ST To: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu X-Original-To: "info-atari16@score.stanford.edu", FXDDR >From: labrea!Lindy!kevin@decwrl.dec.com (Kevin Burnett) >Subject: 'wefax' interface for Atari >I'm interested in finding out about the Weather FAX interface and program >for the ST that appeared in Antic sometime last year. Now that I've got >the appropriate receiver, I'd like to try this thing out, but I don't have >the issue of Antic it was in, nor do I remember which one it was. > Could someone fill me in? The Weather FAX issue was the September 1986 issue of ANTIC. The ANTIC WEFAX decoder only does black and white. It would be great if a more sophisticated circuit were used to give, say, 256 grey levels. Feed in the data through the bidirectional printer port maybe. Then software could render it into hi-med-lo resolution or AIM format. That would let us use AIM for what it was made for...touching up noisy images. Oh well, maybe some day. >Also, I'd be interested in knowing if there's an RTTY/CW interface, like >the ones available for the C64 or the Atari 400/800. I haven't seen one specifically for the ST. However, I've been using the AEA PK-232 with the ST...I just unplug the cable from my modem and plug it into the PK-232. Of course that is a full-blown packet TNC plus RTTY and CW. The new upgrade also handles WEFAX...unfortunately my upgrade hasn't arrived yet so I can't comment on how that part of it works. Incidentally there is a group called the "Atari Microcomputer Network" (mostly 8 bitters, some STs) that turns up every Sunday at 1600 UT on 14.325 MHz (theoretically). They put out a publication called "Ad Astra" (editor is Gil Frederick, VE4AG, 130 Maureen Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3K 1M2 -- US $10/year). Don Rice, FXDDR@ALASKA.BITNET