I am in the final stages of putting together my ground station for doing some satellite packet and decoding telemetry work. I have been successful using my MFJ TNC-2 clone for 1200 baud work, but I want to add a 9600 baud TNC. I have decoded with AGWPE @ 9600 and 1200 baud, but have been informed that using a hardware based TNC is better for decoding weak signals.
I am looking at a Timewave (AEA) PK-96 for this function and would like to solicit comments and opinions on this TNC - good and bad. If you are using something different, I'd like to hear about that too.
In advance, thanks for your comments.
-Tim