Re: [digitalradio] Why would anyone

2009-10-29 Thread Charles Brabham
John: Do the rules specify that there is no baudrate limit upon FDM modes? The fact that they are mentioned does not necessarily imply that they are not intended to fall under the 300 baud restriction. For several years now, PACTOR III emissions have been responsible for thousands opf QSO's

Re: MODERATOR: [digitalradio] Re: Fast/Wide Slow/Narrow

2009-10-29 Thread Ian Wade G3NRW
From: John Bradley jbrad...@sasktel.net Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 Time: 16:30:53 Moderator since there are only a couple of members carrying on this lengthy dialogue, could I respectfully suggest they take thisprivate, so as to not QRM everyone?s mailbox? Hello Moderator, There may be only a

[digitalradio] New to digital modes? Try this weekend's challenge

2009-10-29 Thread obrienaj
We have had few new people join this group after the QST article on RS ID. Since many of them are NEW to digital modes other than RTTY or PSK31... I thought I would challenge the people who have not ventured away from PSK31 or RTTY to try a task this weekend. Three QSOs in three different

Re: MODERATOR: [digitalradio] Re: Fast/Wide Slow/Narrow

2009-10-29 Thread Andy obrien
So noted. Andy K3UK Hello Moderator, There may be only a couple of people conducting this thread at the moment, but it's interesting stuff that is *directly relevant* to the digitalradio group. Please let it continue unhindered! Thank you. -- 73 Ian, G3NRW On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:10

RE: [digitalradio] Why would anyone

2009-10-29 Thread Rud Merriam
Baud rate is baud rate, i.e. symbol change. There is nothing in the regulations about how much the symbol can change. Packet and RTTY uses two tones. PKS31 uses one. By your argument Packet and RTTY should be banned because their symbol change is larger than PSK31s. - 73 - Rud Merriam K5RUD

Re: [digitalradio] Why would anyone

2009-10-29 Thread DANNY DOUGLAS
A simple understanding of props: Station A listens, and hearing nothing on the band, normally sends a quick QRZ?, and if no one responds, figures he can go ahead and transmit a signal/CQ or whatever. Station B hears that, and responds to station A. Now with both stations manned, they both

[digitalradio] Message ID in multipsk

2009-10-29 Thread Steinar Aanesland
Hi all Anyone qrv on 20m ? I am testing the Message ID in Patrick's latest beta of the MULTIPSK (VERSION 4.16 of 27/10/2009) on 14.074. Hope to see you in the waterfall . 73 de LA5VNA Steinar

[digitalradio] PSK500 mode

2009-10-29 Thread Russell Blair
Andy, Im running fldigi 3.13AU but I cant find PSK500 on the list where can I find it, for PSKmail... On my puppy mail server is working, I just completed testing makeing sure it can pass emails.. Now on to PSK500 mode ? Russell  1- Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a

Re: [digitalradio] New to digital modes? Try this weekend's challenge

2009-10-29 Thread Charles Brabham
That sounds like fun! I've tried Feld Hell, MFSK16 and MT63, but not the other two. - I'll make it a point to try them out this weekend. 73 DE Charles Brabham, N5PVL Prefer to use radio for your amateur radio communications? - Stop by at HamRadioNet.Org ! http://www.hamradionet.org -

Re: [digitalradio] Why would anyone

2009-10-29 Thread Charles Brabham
Rud: Note that I didn't make an arguement, I asked a question. By your arguement, Packet should be allowed to operate at 600 baud - but guess what? 73 DE Charles Brabham, N5PVL Prefer to use radio for your amateur radio communications? - Stop by at HamRadioNet.Org !

RE: [digitalradio] Why would anyone

2009-10-29 Thread Rud Merriam
No, Packet can't operate at more than 300 baud. Nothing on HF can exceed 300 baud. I didn't argue this implicitly or explicitly. You made the argument implicitly. - 73 - Rud Merriam K5RUD ARES AEC Montgomery County, TX http://mysticlakesoftware.com/ -Original Message- From:

Re: [digitalradio] Why would anyone

2009-10-29 Thread Charles Brabham
Jeff: I watched a WinLink station knock four stations off of the air yesterday. I have dozens of screen-captures of waterfall displays, showing WinLink stations crashing up to five QSOs at once. It happens every day, and is easy to document. You looked once, and didn't see anything. You can

Re: [digitalradio] Why would anyone

2009-10-29 Thread Charles Brabham
Danny: I think you forgot about the automated sub-bands. They've been there for close to thirty years, now. If station A operates in the regular frequencies and avoids the rather narrow slivers of automated sub-bands outlined in PART97, then the chances of station A being interfered with by a

Re: [digitalradio] PSK500 mode

2009-10-29 Thread Per
Hi Russel, Its not on 3.13AU, there is a patched version with PSK500 but it wasnt there on AU from the start. I guess AZ is the latest now and its on there (its what I run here). 73 de Per, sm0rwo From: Russell Blair russell_blai...@yahoo.com To: Digital

Re: [digitalradio] PSK500 mode

2009-10-29 Thread Russell Blair
Tnx Per well 3.13AU is whats in my puppy mail CD. Ok thanks for the info. Russell  1- Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door! 2- A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson IN GOD

Re: [digitalradio] Why would anyone

2009-10-29 Thread DANNY DOUGLAS
I think one of the prtoblems is that those narrow subbands where auto stations are allowed, do not mean that other stations are NOT allowed. I know that I personnaly do not remember exactly wehre those are, since I dont work the mode. I look at the chart here and see that I am allowed

Re: [digitalradio] Message ID in multipsk

2009-10-29 Thread Tony
Steinar, I am testing the Message ID in Patrick's latest beta of the MULTIPSK (VERSION 4.16 of 27/10/2009) on 14.074. I haven't had the opportunity to use the message ID on-the-air, but I did test the mode between two PC's and it seems to work fine. I would assume the Reed Solomon

Re: [digitalradio] Message ID in multipsk

2009-10-29 Thread Steinar Aanesland
Tony The file is very small (12kb) but it will take abut 60min to send it over to you. I think I will abort.. la5vna Steinar Tony wrote: Steinar, I am testing the Message ID in Patrick's latest beta of the MULTIPSK (VERSION 4.16 of 27/10/2009) on 14.074. I haven't had the

AW: [digitalradio] lpt to com port assignment?

2009-10-29 Thread Siegfried Jackstien
Use a serial port . not lpt . and surely not the 15pole connection . this is for your monitor You find the serial port at the backside and it is 9 pole in two rows . one with 4 and one with 5 If you have no serial port (only usb) there are several usb-serial transformers available for a few

Re: [digitalradio] Message ID in multipsk

2009-10-29 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello to all, For information about the subject (Message ID), here is a mail transmitted to the Multipsk Yahoo group. 73 Patrick *** Hello to all testers, There was a bug on the last test version, so I re-send the mail. Some

Re: [digitalradio] Message ID in multipsk

2009-10-29 Thread Steinar Aanesland
I think I lost you Tony :( . No signal at all here. la5vna Steinar

Re: [digitalradio] Message ID in multipsk

2009-10-29 Thread Steinar Aanesland
It is really nice to see how well multipsk works under weak conditions la5vna Steinar Steinar Aanesland wrote: Tony The file is very small (12kb) but it will take abut 60min to send it over to you. I think I will abort.. la5vna Steinar Tony wrote: Steinar, I am

Re: [digitalradio] Message ID in multipsk

2009-10-29 Thread Steinar Aanesland
Hi Patrick I tested Message ID with Tony -K2MO now . It works great! la5vna Steinar Patrick Lindecker wrote: Hello to all, For information about the subject (Message ID), here is a mail transmitted to the Multipsk Yahoo group. 73 Patrick

Re: [digitalradio] Message ID in multipsk [2 Attachments]

2009-10-29 Thread Tony
TonyThe file is very small (12kb) but it will take abut 60min to send it over to you. I think I will abort.. Understand Steinar - lost you in the noise. Managed to received 23% of the file. The RS messaging came through fine. See attached. First ALE-400 QSO with the U.S.? Tony -K2MO

AW: [digitalradio] Message ID in multipsk

2009-10-29 Thread Siegfried Jackstien
What qrg? _ Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] Im Auftrag von Steinar Aanesland Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. Oktober 2009 20:37 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: Re: [digitalradio] Message ID in multipsk Hi Patrick I tested Message

Re: [digitalradio] Message ID in multipsk

2009-10-29 Thread Steinar Aanesland
Yes, it is my first ALE-400 QSO with the U.S , and I hope it is not the last one. This is a great mode;) la5vna Steinar Tony wrote: TonyThe file is very small (12kb) but it will take abut 60min to send it over to you. I think I will abort.. Understand Steinar - lost you in the

Re: AW: [digitalradio] Message ID in multipsk

2009-10-29 Thread Steinar Aanesland
Hi Siegfried 14.074 but 20m seems to be dead now here up in the north :( la5vna Steinar Siegfried Jackstien wrote: What qrg?

AW: AW: [digitalradio] Message ID in multipsk

2009-10-29 Thread Siegfried Jackstien
Yep … it´s dark outside … so highbands are closed … _ Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] Im Auftrag von Steinar Aanesland Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. Oktober 2009 20:51 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: Re: AW: [digitalradio] Message ID in

[digitalradio] Re: New to digital modes? Try this weekend's challenge

2009-10-29 Thread pd4u_dares
Or you can try SSTV on 20m : 14.230 MHz USB My SSTV cam is stand by 24/7: http://www.pd4u.nl/sstv.php Marc, PD4U

Re: [digitalradio] Message ID in multipsk

2009-10-29 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Tony, The Call ID that I just have slightly modified is based on a specific RS ID code (it was the most simple, but it is not a mode ID, just a borrowing) on which is implemented a more conventional frame (56 bits + CRC). The RS ID is detectable at -16 dB but the Call ID only at about

Re: [digitalradio] lpt to com port assignment?

2009-10-29 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Daniel, In the Multipsk package (http://f6cte.free.fr), you have a file which name is RS232_EN.doc. It shows how to connect a RS232 9 pins port. It will give you idea. LPT port is not very used because it's not very easy to control from Windows (from DOS it was easy, by addressing

Re: [digitalradio] Why would anyone

2009-10-29 Thread John B. Stephensen
The baud rate limit applies but this means 300 symbol changes per second on each subcarrier. The number of subcarriers and the number of bits per subcarrier is not limited. The ARRL regulation by bandwidth proposal was a better method than the current regulation by content rules but was opposed

[digitalradio] Re: Why would anyone

2009-10-29 Thread John
Maybe I am growing a little bit confused here . As I follow this thread, am I hearing that there is a flat limit of 300 baud in all aspects of amateur radio? First, can't we use 1200 baud in certain cases, such as above 2 meters? Second, how do we correlate the 300 baud limit when we use

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Why would anyone

2009-10-29 Thread John B. Stephensen
According to the terms of our licenses, each of us is supposed to have read and understood part 97 of the FCC rules and regulations. Here's a summary of the upper limits for RTTY/data emissions in 97.305 and 97.307 as I read it: 1.8-24.99 MHz: 300 baud with 1 kHz shift or facsimile with 500 Hz

Re: [digitalradio] New to digital modes? Try this weekend's challenge

2009-10-29 Thread Phil Williams
What? No THOR?! ;-) philw de ka1gmn On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:31 AM, obrienaj k3uka...@gmail.com wrote: We have had few new people join this group after the QST article on RS ID. Since many of them are NEW to digital modes other than RTTY or PSK31... I thought I would challenge the people

Re: [digitalradio] New to digital modes? Try this weekend's challenge

2009-10-29 Thread Kurt Tuttle
I would recommend FeldHell also.   KT K8YZK --- On Thu, 10/29/09, Phil Williams ka1...@gmail.com wrote: From: Phil Williams ka1...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] New to digital modes? Try this weekend's challenge To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 7:13 PM

Re: [digitalradio] Message ID in multipsk

2009-10-29 Thread Tony
Patrick, Thanks for adding the messaging feature. Andy, K3UK, and I were able to copy Sholto's, RS messages some 3700km away on 20 meters. Sholto, K7TMG, was running 5 watts and a vertical antenna. We found the high sensitivity of the message mode useful as signals fell below the decode

[digitalradio] Re: Why would anyone

2009-10-29 Thread John
So sorry John . of course you are right . we were supposed to have read and understood the contents of part 97 . I guess I must have forgotten the part that demanded we also memorize it verbatim with all it's technical terms and specs. I must be the one to admit it, I am the

[digitalradio] FLARQ outperforms WINMOR

2009-10-29 Thread Andy obrien
Well, not an apples to apples test.. but Ron NY3J and I played for quite a while with FLARQ tonight on 80M and 40. 80M was was in poor shape with QRN and weak signals but we managed a few slow MFSK16 email transfers. We then switched to 40M and I received Ron about S5, he was 200 miles away.