Re: [digitalradio] Olivia mode performance

2008-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Tony wrote: All, Certainly is remarkable the way Olivia mode performs under adverse conditions. Was having trouble decoding VK2PN in PSK31 mode due to the unstable conditions at the time (selective fading / multi-path). Switching to Olivia 500/16 fixed the problem. Copy went from marginal

Re: [digitalradio] Re: New Hams and New Digital Technology

2008-07-03 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Benson wrote: --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dave AA6YQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On what basis do you claim that Olivia, DominoEX, and MFSK are better than PSK for ragchewing? Olivia is slow, and MFSK is difficult to tune. I could care less about mode envy but I will

Re: [digitalradio] Re: New Hams and New Digital Technology

2008-07-02 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
garylinnrobinson wrote: If most PSK operators are interested in rag chewing -they need to move on to a better digital mode. PSK and RTTY are the two worst modes available. And that's the problem. Too many people, groups, and leaders in the Ham Community promoting OLD and less than effective

[digitalradio] Digital Voice FMDMV

2008-05-23 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
I am QRV 7035 LSB with FMDMV at various times during our (VK) afternoons. 14mh useless most of the time here, but VK2,3,7 usually good sigs on forty in our afternoons. Kevin VK5OA

[digitalradio] FDMDV

2008-05-20 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Is there any default frequency for FDMDV on Forty meters Kevin VK5OA

[digitalradio] Pactor on 14109.5

2008-02-26 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Of late I have been having my ALE contacts with ZL1BAD destroyed by VK2JN evidently running pactor II/III on 14109.5 He comes on, obviously without listening to see if the channel is clear. Is 14109.5 a recognized frequency for BBS pactor operation? If so then that frequency should be removed

Re: [digitalradio] Macro's in contests Try again

2008-02-14 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Peter G. Viscarola wrote: Is there any way that a second set of macro's (like in mixw) can be used, or is there any way that the second 12 macro's can be locked on screen, so that CTRL does not have to be pressed each time? If what you're looking for is a way to have more buttons visible

[digitalradio] Macro's in contests Try again

2008-02-13 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Since I have had no reply to this post and it may have gon astray I am re-posting Yesterday I decided that I would give a few numbers to the RTTY contest, and re-wrote a few of my existing macro's for the exercise. Is there any way that a second set of macro's (like in mixw) can be used, or is

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Macro's in contests Try again

2008-02-13 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
? Andy --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Kevin O'Rorke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I have had no reply to this post and it may have gon astray I am re-posting Yesterday I decided that I would give a few numbers to the RTTY contest, and re-wrote a few of my existing macro's

[digitalradio] Macro's in contests

2008-02-10 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Yesterday I decided that I would give a few numbers to the RTTY contest, and re-wrote a few of my existing macro's for the exercise. Is there any way that a second set of macro's (like in mixw) can be used, or is there any way that the second 12 macro's can be locked on screen, so that CTRL

Re: [digitalradio] Re: New release (4.7) of MULTIPSK

2008-01-30 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Sholto Fisher wrote: Tooner wrote: MultiPSK gives an error in Vista 64-bit: Windows - No Disk Exception Processing Message 0xc013 Parameters ... Cancel, Try Again, Continue Selecting either will still pull up the program. Seems to work fine. Not a biggie, but in case someone else is

[digitalradio] Setting up FDMDV

2008-01-26 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Hello All I have installed fdmdv_6_jan . All seemed to set up ok. I have 2 sound cards. Realtek ac97 on board which i have set for RX in and TX out, and USB Creative SB Extigy forVoice in and Voice out. If I put the mute right down I get random bits of voice sounding gunk, so that side of things

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digitalradio Group

2008-01-16 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Demetre SV1UY wrote: Hi all, Following this discussion I could help but notice the frontpage of this group. It mentions DIGITALRADIO GROUP International. -- DIGITALRADIO GROUP A meeting place for discussion of amateur radio

Re: [digitalradio] Its all getting out of hand.........

2008-01-13 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Jack Chomley wrote: I think these discussions about ALE who, PSK this, who hates Pactor etc are starting to destroy this group. We all have our favourite ideas/opinions etc. IF people feel strongly about regulatory or operational problems in the hobby, then write to your Ham Radio

[digitalradio] NBEMS Frequencies.

2008-01-05 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
I have VBDIGI/FLARQ up and running,and there has been a lot of posts about 30m frequencies. I do not have a 10Mh antenna so would like to know of frequencies for 14 and 7Mh, so that I can monitor/beacon in the right spots. Kevin VK5OA

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2008-01-01 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
I have downloaded pskmail_pup_w-0.5.5.zip It has installed ok and runs ok on Win. It has FLDIGI and FLARQ pre-installed. FLDIGI runs ok, but I cannot at this stage get PTT working I aparently cannot nominate the correct com port. The com port, in Windows, is com 3 (a PCI Com Card). I will

Re: [digitalradio] NBEMS available for beta testing

2008-01-01 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Andrew O'Brien wrote: On Jan 1, 2008 9:23 PM, kh6ty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The NBEMS development team is pleased to announce the availability of a Windows NBEMS software suite for beta testing. I have downloaded NBEMSsetup and unzipped to a temp folder Any attempt

Re: [digitalradio] Standard sideband for digi modes?

2007-12-31 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Ralph Mowery wrote: --- Zack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the standard rule for sidebands for the digital modes? Are all bands 160-6 USB (for RTTY, PSK, WSJT, etc)? I have been looking for this info but have not found it. A web link would be very helpful! Thanks Zack N8FNR

Re: [digitalradio] FCC: Petition to Kill Digital Advancement

2007-12-26 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
David wrote: Hi All..as this petition only has to do with Hams in the USA i would suggest that argument from both sides be taken to a group especially for the subject and not be put on the other many Hams outside the USA.this petition has already engendered some very bad slanging

Re: [digitalradio] Time to do something real with ALE400

2007-12-11 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Steve Hajducek wrote: Hi John, If you are using PC-ALE 1.062H ( the latest build being #5) I can not imagine why you are having any issues with your TS-480SAT if the CAT control of radio works otherwise with any other software. pcale 1.062H will only allow CAT control via COM1 and COM2.

Re: [digitalradio] Time to do something real with ALE400

2007-12-11 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Steve Hajducek wrote: Hi Kevin, I squeezed out support for com ports 1 through 16, older version were com 1 through 9. The limitation is imposed by the Microsoft supplied comm driver for the C++ compiler. /s/ Steve, N2CKH At 06:25 PM 12/11/2007, you wrote: pcale 1.062H will only

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Imitating the big guys

2007-10-15 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Dave Bernstein wrote: AA6YQ comments bloew --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Jose Amador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've argued that the SCAMP busy detector is useless because its not publicly available, even though it was developed by the Winlink team and remains in their

Re: [digitalradio] PCALE with IC706IIG

2007-10-14 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Steve Hajducek wrote: Hi Kevin, If you select by model number from Radio Type you want your radio to be using the factory address and 19200 baud. If you use GENERIC ICOM, which I don't recommend, then you want to use the baud radio your is set to 8N1, the radio address your radio is

Re: [digitalradio] PCALE with IC706IIG

2007-10-14 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Steve Hajducek wrote: Hi Kevin, You are using OLD software, you want the latest PC-ALE v1.062H Interim Build #5 which is found at the HFlink Yahoo forum. No, Steve my version is 106g. Only downloaded it not that long ago. Thanks for the tip, will investigate. Kevin

[digitalradio] PCALE with IC706IIG

2007-10-13 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
I have been trying to get PCALE functioning with my IC706IIG. I cannot get the CAT function to work ie. scanning etc. Transmits (individual call) fine with PTT via com 1. I have tried using the Generic Icom and entering the correct address etc. and still no joy. CAT works fine on Commander and

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Comments to ARRL on New Digi Protocols

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Kurt wrote: Don't know about anyone else, but I am tired of reading the messages between some here, and the bs that is passing back and forth. If you guys want to have a pissing contest, then why not do it with emails to each other, or take it to another forum. Kurt K8YZK Yes

[digitalradio] Problem with SpecJT

2007-04-21 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
First a bit of brag. This afternoon on 20m 041300 1 -8 -0.1 -13 3 * CQ ZS6WAB KG461 10 041500 7 -6 -0.1 -11 3 # VK5OA ZS6WAB KG46 OOO 1 10 041700 10 -9 -11 4 RRR ? 041900 3 -8 -0.2 -11 3 * -16DB TU 30M

[digitalradio] 7Mc JT65 Frequency

2007-04-21 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
In Andy's excellent Bozo's Guide the suggested operating frequency on 40 for JT65 is 7076. Here in this part of the world 7050 - 7100 is the main SSB operating area and 7075 is a very popular mobile SSB operating frequency. So we would, by Gentleman's agreement not operate JT65 on 7076 Main

Re: [digitalradio] Linux versis Windows: Let the debate begin!!

2006-12-06 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Totally Off subject, but every time I try to do a reply, because of all the @[EMAIL PROTECTED]* add's on the right hand side of the message, it is impossible to get my text in the right place. is there any way of getting rid of those adds'?? Kevin VK5OA

Re: [digitalradio] Linux versis Windows: Let the debate begin!!

2006-11-28 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
JOHN said I have this mental picture of linux users hunched over their computers, eyes red and glazed , looking for WMD (What Microsoft Did), toiling for hours to make unsupported software run. Sorry Guys, I'm with Bill Gates, he developed an operating system that mostly works, and

[digitalradio] Cant get two sound cards

2006-11-26 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Hello Group I wish to have the use of two sound cards,one for digital and the other for less important uses, ie. win sounds. Installing my Creative Live card is perfectly normal and successful, but the onboard card is not present any more, I have checked in Device manager, and only the Creative

[digitalradio] Second snd card problem

2006-09-03 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
I am just in the process of commissioning a new computer, an ASUS A8V motherboard with AMD 3000+ cpu and 512mb ram System is XP Pro with SP1 This motherboard has an on board Realtek AC97 sound card. If I plug a Creative Live PCI sound card in, and boot up, the Live card is found and installed ok

[digitalradio] Digital on 40m

2006-06-27 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Due to the propogation conditions on 14mh being so consistantly poor I was wondering why no local (VK-ZL) digi activity is apparent on 7mh, except for 7193 USB for Hampal etc, and 7038 for packet. Here in

[digitalradio] Digital on 7mh

2006-06-27 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Due to the propagation conditions on 14mh being so consistently poor I was wondering why no local (VK-ZL) digi activity is apparent on 7mh, except for 7193 USB for Hampal etc, and 7038 for packet. Here in VK the band allocation for digital is 7030-7040, and I will from time to time be CQ'ing on

Re: [digitalradio] Re:All Channels are Busy Channels? Free Decoding Rights?

2006-06-23 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
Dave Bernstein wrote: This seems like a slippery slope, Doc. Should the FCC have disallowed SSB because when it was first introduced, most hams didn't have SSB demodulators and thus couldn't self-police? . In those days most ham receivers had a BFO and by using that, ssb could be

Re: [digitalradio] Why PACTOR for WL2K ?

2006-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
KV9U wrote: Would love to hear of any on-going programming for HF ARQ sound card modes so if anyone does this or knows anything about it, please let us know. 73, Rick, KV9U Andrew O'Brien wrote: PAX2 in Multipsk?? VK5OA Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to

Re: [digitalradio] PCALE Re: Another look at ALE

2006-03-14 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
expeditionradio wrote: Kevin VK5OA The program only uses one serial port for PTT and CAT when ALL other programs use two or more. [...] [...] I would dearly love to use the program but until some other author will take over the development (Charles has ceased working on it) Hi Kevin,

[digitalradio] Pax2 in VK-ZL

2006-03-14 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
I have been reading the posts on pax2 with great interest and I would like to participate in experiments with it. A lot is going on on Europe and the USA on frequencies and times which we here in vk-zl cannot participate. I wonder if there are any other Amateurs in this area with similar