This week, we continue our quest for PDAARAs--personal digital assistant Amateur Radio applications--this time for the PocketPC and Windows CE.

In response to last week's Surfin' featuring Amateur Radio applications for the Palm PDA (personal digital assistant) and Palm OS, I received requests to do the same for the PocketPC PDA and Windows CE OS. Your wish is my command!

Lynn H. Hansen, KU7Q, has a Web site devoted to CTR817, which is a Windows CE 2.11 and PocketPC application for controlling a Yaesu FT-817 transceiver.

N0HR.com is a good web site for finding Amateur Radio resources for the PocketPC PDA and Windows CE OS.

N0HR.com is the web site for MobileLog and PPCMorse, which are logging and Morse code applications written by Patrick Rundall, N0HR, for PocketPCs. This web site also has a variety of information pertinent to hams using Windows CE PDAs.

Rob Wittner, KZ5RW, wrote an APRS application for Windows CE called APRS/CE. You can find it at the APRS/CE Information Web page.

Andy Davidson, ZL3AD, has two pages devoted to two Windows CE applications. His Tracksat/CE web page is for an application he "developed for the PocketPC (and Handheld PCPro) that will track satellites and display their position on a map of the world" and his TTConfig/CE Web page is for a small utility he wrote that allows you to change the settings of a TinyTrak GPS position encoder on the fly.

Finally, there is an active PocketPC/Windows CE Yahoo group dedicated to exchanging information about using this PDA for ham radio purposes.

By the way, "WinCE" is a nickname for Windows CE, but Microsoft avoids that nickname. If you don't believe me, type "WinCE" into the search engine at Microsoft's Windows CE .NET Web site and see what happens.

Until next time, keep on surfin'

Editor's note: Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, will don his holey Boston Patriots sweatshirt and try to tackle some new grids and states on 2 meters this weekend. "An opening into Carolina's territory would be super!" Stan figures.

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