The answer to: Which TNC are you using for your TelPac gateway station?

An unscientific poll was held via the WL2Kemcomm reflector and here are the results from a rather small sample.

To: wl2kemcomm@yahoogroups.com
From: “Jerry Reimer”
Subject: [wl2kemcomm] Re: Poll results for wl2kemcomm

POLL QUESTION:
Which TNC are you using for your TelPac gateway station?

RESULTS GROUPED BY MANUFACTURER
- Kantronics (all variations), 42 votes, 79.24%
- AEA/Timewave (all variations), 7 votes, 13.2%
- TAPR 2 clone (via AGW), 4 votes, 7.02%
- Sound Card (AGW PE), 2 votes, 3.51%
- SCS (all variations), 1 vote, 1.75%
- Other hardware TNC not listed, 1 votes, 1.75%
- USB TNC, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Anything else that was not listed, 0 votes, 0.00%

CHOICES AND RESULTS
- Kantronics KPC3 or KPC3 Plus, 21 votes, 36.84%
- Kantronics KAM or KAM Plus, 6 votes, 10.53%
- Kantronics KAM XL, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Kantronics 9612 or 9612 Plus, 14 votes, 24.56%
- Other Kantronics, 1 votes, 1.75%
- TAPR 2 clone (via AGW), 4 votes, 7.02%
- SCS PTCIIex, 0 votes, 0.00%
- SCS PTCII Pro, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Other SCS, 1 votes, 1.75%
- PK232 and variations, 6 votes, 10.53%
- PK900 and variations, 1 votes, 1.75%
- USB TNC, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Sound Card (AGW PE), 2 votes, 3.51%
- Other hardware TNC not listed, 1 votes, 1.75%
- Anything else that was not listed, 0 votes, 0.00%

812 registered TelPac gateway stations
216 active TelPac gateway stations - 26.6% of registered
53 poll respondants - 24.5% of active, 6.5% of registered

This may not have been a representative sample of the hardware
actually being used at TelPac stations.

Jerry
KK5CA

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