Depending upon whet you want to do, a hardware TNC used to include a personal BBS and was all most people needed. A stand alone TNC along with your radio, works for APRS for messaging. For geolocation a dedicated tracker is the way to go. I've still got an AEA PK88 around for the odd occation that I need packet.
Software TNCs are available for free, Direwolf, AGWPE, and others but you need a PC of some sort to run them.
On 21 October 2019 at 15:46 Santiago Roland <cx1dr@...> wrote:
Thanks Nigel, that is good bit of information to know. I think that maybe the TNC-Pi is the way to go, otherwise i have to put a dedicated PC to run BBS soft. Besides the TNC-Pi, what you consider the best or more versatile TNC around? I only know the MFJ ones, TNC-X, SignaLink, Kantronics and AEA TNCs... there are so many.
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