#DCLOCK HAM WIN10 PLUS#
The device has a large support base of fellow KAM Plus users, so questions can easily be answered via the KAM User's Yahoo Group. The great news is that the KAM Plus is so robust that they rarely need any service.
All KAM Plus units that are available are only available on the used market. If a user never has a need for 9600 baud packet then I would recommend the KAM Plus in a heartbeat.Īs you can see from the date that I'm writing this, the KAM Plus is no longer in production. At half the cost of the PTC, it's a very marginal loss. Because of the lack of 9600 baud packet, it loses out only to the SCS PTC-IIex. If the KAM Plus had 9600 baud packet, it would be my number one pick in terms of function, affordability, and fit-n-finish. The KAM Plus is without a doubt one of the top performers. Each device has their own quirks, some being strengths and others not so much. I have personally owned and used many TNCs over the years. Time's up, I'm afraid! Compared to the faultless Kantronics KPC3's made in the same decades, the old KamPlus is no longer reliable. The model has been the 'top of the game' for twenty years, and still is. Repair is a big job, involving lots of components and testing. These in turn destroy the U10 voltage regulator chip and may also take down two transistors. This is mostly due to the seven electrolytic capacitors drying-out. Be aware that the aparrently 'new' black box model is in fact, the same circuit board as the old model, screwed inside a new style case! Many are starting to fail and require big repairs. I've had a dozen more of the older white-cased and new black-box KamPlus units in the last couple of years. Don't even look at the other inferior, deafer, antiquated items made by other manufacturers. Nothing has come along to overtake it as the best dual-port multimode ever made. I still have the brand new KamPlus V8.2 that I bought in 1995. I use it every day and if it ever fails I will replace it with a Kam XL. It is the longest surviving piece of ham radio gear I own. These tnc's and packet radio in general are NOT obsolete. No it doesn't have all the newer sound card modes, but those modes weren't conceived of for another 10 to 15 years after this tnc was manufactured. This tnc has pretty much been used for everything that it could possibly be used for and I can't find a thing negative to say about it. Back when hf rigs were not as sophisticated as they are now I did use the RTTY mode of this tnc.Īs I am writing this review, I see the "Mail" light is on so I checked my terminal program and see that a Colorado BPQ packet station is connected on the 20 meter hf port and is forwarding messages to my mailbox. The RTTY, and CW modes are easy to use and it's one of the best CW readers I have ever seen. The hf tuning indicator makes tuning on hf easy. I was a Navy MARS operator twice during the gulf wars and sent and received MARS traffic via a pactor bulletin board with this tnc. These were messages left in the bulletin boards and replies were received. I have exchanged packet messages with the MIR space station, the International Space Station. This tnc was also used on satellite operations through the hears. I am now retired but when I was still working I had a packet station at work and I would access my home packet station using this Kam+ and remotely setup auto forwarding of message to my friends on hf and vhf. I keep a vhf/hf packet gateway in operation during daylight hours when I am not using my primary hf rig for other purposes. I send and receive message with hams all around the country on HF mostly by posting message in their bulletin boards and they do likewise. Not a lot of packet operators on vhf any more but a few do get on from time to time. I use it to handle sysop duties at 3 remote packet BBS sites, and assist with the same a some others.
#DCLOCK HAM WIN10 SOFTWARE UPGRADE#
It has never had a software upgrade and is version KAM-2F325278-8.0 There have been a couple brief periods of time when I was not working packet but for the most part it has been on the air daily for 21 years. I have had it on the air for over 21 years. I have owned my Kam Plus since I purchased it new in December of 1996.
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