Forgive my naivety in the area, I'm still definitely learning the basics in   
   this area (don't even have a rig yet, obviously).   
     I was shopping around on Ebay trying to see what might be a good set of price   
   ranges to start looking for a used transceiver that can work with AX.25.  I   
   noticed a whole lot of older, more vintage equipment, that appears to be   
   analog, that is within the outskirts of my [current] price limitations.   
     Assuming that the mic in is matched with a line or audio out jack (and not   
   just a built in speaker-- though that could be worked around easily on this   
   older & bigger equipment), that is really all I'd need to work with for AX.25,   
   no?  At least if it's handled at the kernel level of my machine; I understand   
   that for OpenBSD I might need to actually get a modem that'll dump the in/out   
   to my serial port.   
     Can anybody tell me if there are any inherent limitations of this analog   
   equipment that I'm not aware of that'll keep me from being able to utilize   
   AX.25 from it?  I don't know any, but obviously I haven't even taken my test   
   yet; I want to make sure that my first system is capable of packet as well as   
   voice xmission.   
     The one I was just looking at, for instance, was a National NCX-200   
   w/matching power supply.   
     Thanks for your time!   
      
     -Damon   
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