[digitalradio] Re: ROS back bigger and better !

2010-07-19 Thread Chris Jewell
g4ilo writes: But why are you all so worked up over this? It is the USA not Soviet Russia, you aren't going to end up in Siberia are you? The late J Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, used to exile FBI agents he disliked to Alaska, which was as close to Siberia as he could send them.

Re: [digitalradio] Opposing 60M proposal

2010-05-13 Thread Chris Jewell
James French writes: Can it be 'justified' to 'clog up' a new band with allowing ANY digital mode, and I am also including digitized voice into this, just to have it be there? Why not use what is already staged and developed and on the bands that already have the allocations? The

[digitalradio] Why does the ARRL continue to push for Pactor III support...

2010-05-10 Thread Chris Jewell
Rick Ellison writes: ... This just makes no sense to me why you would push Pactor III on a channelized frequency setting.. A good question: I was thinking of sending in a comment on that NPRM, recommending that instead of authorizing only PSK-31 and Pactor-III, that the FCC instead permit

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Unattended narrow mode transmission protection

2010-04-09 Thread Chris Jewell
Adding to Skip's remarks, I will point out it is considered almost an indecency among the daily-position-report hams to mention 97.113(a)(5) of the FCC rules, which states: (a) No amateur station shall transmit: ... (5) Communications, on a regular basis, which could reasonably be

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Unattended narrow mode transmission protection

2010-04-09 Thread Chris Jewell
Ed G writes: Using your same logic below, it could well be determined that hams who partake regularly in 75M evening nets, or even regular QSO, etc, should take their conversations to FCC Part D Citizen's band, or other service , because those communications on a regular

[digitalradio] Adobe Reader incompatible with amateur radio computer?

2010-01-29 Thread Chris Jewell
that applies to MSIE. Sometimes convenience and safety are conflicting values. 73 DE KW6H (ex-AE6VW), Chris Jewell

Re: [digitalradio] Re: illinoisdigital group

2009-02-23 Thread Chris Jewell
I didn't complain either, but after about 5 or so of his messages I added this to my .procmailrc: # advertisements in various Y! ham-radio mailing lists *From: .*wb9...@yahoo.com /dev/null 73 de kw6h, ex-ae6vw Chris Jewell

Re: [digitalradio] Grouply spam/theft attacks

2008-08-30 Thread Chris Jewell
forwarding service, which passes my firewall. 73 DE KW6H (ex-AE6VW), Chris Jewell

Re: [digitalradio] Grouply spam/theft attacks

2008-08-30 Thread Chris Jewell
Oops! That .procmailrc rule should read ... :0 : *Received: from .*72\.20\.12[14]\.[0-9]+ /dev/null Sorry about the missing period. -- 73 DE KW6H (ex-AE6VW), Chris Jewell

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digitalradio Group

2008-01-15 Thread Chris Jewell
detection for bots should is mandatory|is infeasible, etc, but I'm not sure I'm not confabulating here. :-) 73 DE KW6H (ex-AE6VW) -- Chris Jewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 1396 Gualala CA USA 95445

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Gray Areas of Ham Radio Regulations and Rules

2007-03-19 Thread Chris Jewell
, but it's not. We need regulation by bandwidth only, but that proposal seems to be stalled. :-( -- Chris Jewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ex-ae6vw) Gualala CA USA 95445

Re: [digitalradio] Re: FNpsk

2007-01-31 Thread Chris Jewell
chars/sec) / (6 chars/word) = 20 words / second (not per minute) 20 x 60 = 1200 words/minute. Besides, while I don't know a lot about AX.25, I'm pretty sure that X.25, from which AX.25 is derived, is synchronous (no start or stop bits). -- 73 DE KW6H (ex-AE6VW) Chris JewellGualala CA USA

[digitalradio] Re: New 80m USA Keyboarding Digi Frequencies

2006-12-07 Thread Chris Jewell
, Chris Jewell Gualala CA USA

[digitalradio] (unknown)

2006-12-07 Thread Chris Jewell
other as needed. -- 73 de kw6h, ex-ae6vwChris Jewell, Gualala CA USA

[digitalradio] USA FCC: Technology Death Row for HF Data

2006-11-16 Thread Chris Jewell
expeditionradio writes: Wow. It appears that the FCC has actually redefined Data below 30MHz at less than 500Hz... data in the common way that 99% of hams send data using digital modes on computers and ham transceivers. I've often said that the antiquated content-based FCC rules have

[digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread Chris Jewell
reading. 73 de KW6H, ex AE6VW -- Chris Jewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gualala CA USA 95445 Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol

RE: [digitalradio] Re: RTTY Hall of Shame

2006-09-25 Thread Chris Jewell
://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/newslettersv09/9.6.htm. It makes no mention of ham radio, but if you read it, you'll see why I thought of it in this context. -- 73 DE KW6H, ex AE6VW Chris Jewell Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector

Re: [digitalradio] New to Digital HF -- PACTOR setup and hardware maybe needed???

2006-08-28 Thread Chris Jewell
this and has better suggestions, by all means offer them. I'm an old computer geek but a new ham: I'm happy to learn about either computers or radio from anyone who can improve my understanding. -- 73 DE AE6VW Chris Jewell[EMAIL PROTECTED]Gualala CA USA 95445 Need a Digital mode QSO

[digitalradio] -tor modes and PCs

2006-08-28 Thread Chris Jewell
time as it does now. That means either a much longer data packet, or a pipelined group of packets covered by a single ACK. The longer the packet, the greater chance that a static crash or other event will corrupt the packet, so we're back to talking about pipelined packets. -- 73 DE AE6VW Chris

Re: [digitalradio] The digital throughput challenge on H

2006-08-24 Thread Chris Jewell
it will prove fit for ham use. Obviously, the people working on it think it is, and they know much more about it than I, so I'm hopeful. -- 73 DE AE6VW Chris JewellGualala, CA, USA Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW

[digitalradio] help with digipan

2006-07-22 Thread Chris Jewell
. 73 DE AE6VW, Chris -- Chris Jewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion

Re: [digitalradio] Preferred PC-to- Rig Interface?

2006-01-07 Thread Chris Jewell
kd4e writes: Hmmm. Sounds as though if I wish to cover all modes I will need something more than a sound card as some of them need more interface help than others! Perhaps not, since you're a Linux user. Although I haven't tried it myself yet, I *think* you'll find that hfterm on Linux

Re: [digitalradio] Winlink vs. Winlink 2000 et al

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Jewell
. In such a context, a timebomb is certainly an unnecessary feature. Software development decisions that are acceptable for games or business software can get people killed when used in programs critical to human life. 73 DE AE6VW, ex-KG6YLS -- Chris Jewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 1396 Gualala CA 95445