[digitalradio] Re: Sound Cards

2009-06-19 Thread Vojtech Bubnik
Hi Skip and others. I bought the other USB sound card dongle: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=CL-USCM2cpc=SCH I was disappointed with it. The microphone input was noisy and A/D resolution was far lower than 16 bits. I do not remember exactly, I think it was either 10 or 12 bits. With

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Sound Cards

2009-06-19 Thread kh6ty
Hi Vojtech, My experience with it was strictly anecdotal, and had no noticeable problems on the air on HF compared to the SignaLink, but I did not make any quantitative evaluation other than to notice the absence of the low end noise on the waterfall that my SignaLink has. I just checked it

Re: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio

2009-06-19 Thread Alan Barrow
Bob Donnell wrote: 30 years seems a stretch - since I think Linux first saw the light of the Internet in about 1992. Let's see - 30 years ago - that's just after people started pirating paper tapes of Microsoft Basic... grin In the sense that Linux is Unix, it does go back 30 years or

[digitalradio] Praise for Buxcomm

2009-06-19 Thread ku4pt
I called Buxcomm on Monday morning to order an interface for the computer to the sound card modes. Talked with a very nice man. I ordered a Rascal GLX interface for my Icom 746Pro. It arrived in the Thursday mail. I installed it and it workes just fine. I just thought I would give a good

[digitalradio] FLDigi / Cygwin Question

2009-06-19 Thread Tim N9PUZ
FLDigi uses the cygwin1.dll file in it's Windows installation. There is a caution in the documentation that it is bad ju ju to have multiple cygwin1.dll files on your computer because they may be different versions and not get along. The docs say the dll needs to be in the same directory as

Re: [digitalradio] FLDigi / Cygwin Question

2009-06-19 Thread kh6ty
Hi Tim, Fldigi will look first for the one in the same folder as fldigi.exe, so just make sure the latest is in there and keep them together. The latest public release is 3.11.5, which you can download at http://w1hkj.com/NBEMS/, and includes the latest cygwin1.dll. I doubt if the other

Re: [digitalradio] FLDigi / Cygwin Question

2009-06-19 Thread Tim N9PUZ
Thank you Skip. I've been running it that way for a week or and just got around to checking--there are more programs on my machine that use the Cygwin DLL than I had thought. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't on thin ice and didn't know it! Tim, N9PUZ kh6ty wrote: Hi Tim, Fldigi will look

[digitalradio] CQ WW contest has a new category, XTREME

2009-06-19 Thread Bob McGwier
For those who are amateur radio operators and are interested in software radio, cognitive radio, diversity reception, and other such things, the contest committee at CQ Magazine has put together a new category of operation to help promote innovation. The brain child of K3LR and K1DG with

Re: [digitalradio] Sound Cards

2009-06-19 Thread Skip Taylor
Just wanted to say hello to another Skip. Mine is a nickname from birth, how about you? Private email is ok from here out if you wish. I started reading this thread because it had my name in it. (grin) There's also a USB sound adapter at http://tr.im/p5Nl Looks very similar to the one the other

Re: [digitalradio] Really beating the AGC issue with PSK ?

2009-06-19 Thread J. Moen
This note is for users of the TS-2000 who could use the ability to reduce Rx bandwidth to as narrow as 50 hz. Andy K3UK asks about mitigating the problem of a strong signal near your weaker target signal. Phil points out IF DSP is better than AF DSP, but a technique described by Hans N0AN

Re: [digitalradio] Really beating the AGC issue with PSK ?

2009-06-19 Thread Andy obrien
I have been aware of n0an's trick for some time, but unless someone can find a command that will invoke this with a simple macro, I find it too much of a hassle do do frequently. I was never able to find a command that would invoke A=B via HRD or Commander, so gave up. On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at

[digitalradio] QRV on 50.300 RTTY

2009-06-19 Thread Russell Blair
I'l be on QRV on 50.300 for the next few hr for RTTY qso. Tnx Russell NC5O EM12px Yesterday is HISTORY. Tomorrow is a MYSTERY. Today is a GIFT! Thats why its called the PRESENT! IN GOD WE TRUST Russell Blair (NC5O) Skype-Russell.Blair Hell Field #300 DRCC #55 30m Dig-group #693