Re: [digitalradio] Ubuntu - thank you

2010-07-29 Thread Phil Barnett
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:22 AM, J. Moen j...@jwmoen.com wrote: I think you got some great answers, with the general theme that Linux is an excellent operating system AND people have written native Linux ham programs that also are excellent. Bottom line -- hams will be more than happy

Re: [digitalradio] re: Ubuntu

2010-07-28 Thread Phil Barnett
No, this is not true. Linux is not windows and even though there is an emulator named Wine, it is a kludge and is no guarantee that any windows software will run properly on Linux. Some does really good, some is buggy, some doesn't start at all. Trying to make Linux work like Windows will always

Re: [digitalradio] Fwd: [30MDG] Help NEEDED with a Signallink USB

2010-05-11 Thread Phil Barnett
The SignaLink USB is not a rig control device, it's only an audio device. It has a built in VOX circuit to do the keying. Rig control must be done with a separate device. If you got the audio to show up, you are there. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Andy obrien k3uka...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [digitalradio] Statement on Withdrawal of Support for ROS (K3UK Sked Pages)

2010-03-03 Thread Phil Barnett
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 07:56 -0500, Andy obrien wrote: Some people think to keep telling lies on Internet blogs is going to go free. People still trying to outlaw ROS although the FCC has given approval will not be able to make any QSO with ROS or any of the projects I have designed for the

Re: [digitalradio] Calculating CPU use for multiple applications?

2010-02-28 Thread Phil Barnett
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 19:17 -0500, Andy obrien wrote: I like to multitask, and I am greedy... I like to keep an eye on several things at once. I am thinking about a better PC, one with enough CPU capability to run many tasks at the same time. Is there a way to calculate the total CPU demands

Re: [digitalradio] Need your help picking HF radio.

2009-12-25 Thread Phil Barnett
On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 15:46 +, kd7jeh wrote: Merry Christmas to the Group, I am looking to buy another HF radio for PSK/digital. I am asking what features I look for and why. Next question, what radio offers more bang for the money and why? I would like to buy new but will consider

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Techs on HF digital

2009-12-21 Thread Phil Barnett
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 14:56 +, ke4d wrote: Now, can some of you guys help me get started with these digital modes? LOL. Actually, I have had equipment for years starting with some TNCs back in the dark ages to work digital modes, but just made my first PSK contact two days ago. Although I

Re: [digitalradio] Sound Cards

2009-06-17 Thread Phil Barnett
On 06/17/2009 05:17 PM, Peter Frenning [OZ1PIF] wrote: Rick W skrev: You could use an external device as others have suggested. I don't generally recommend the SignaLink USB due to the low frequency noise problem, however many hams either ignore it or are not aware of it. Further, after some

Re: [digitalradio] Wine/Linux and HRD/DM780 anyone?

2009-06-04 Thread Phil Barnett
Simon (HB9DRV) wrote: Hi Doug, Try Windows 7 - it really is a smooth OS. It is fast - I use it on my little ASUS EEE PC 1000H with HRD/DM780 and it really performs. HRD/DM780 will not work with WINE I am afraid, I wish I had time for the debugging. Oh, me too! The only reason I keep a

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

2009-05-28 Thread Phil Barnett
Andy obrien wrote: From time to time we have had discussions here about the problem with PSK (and other modes) when a strong stations appears to grab the waterfall and wipe out all the other stations within a 2-3 Khz range. Because of this phenomenon, when I purchased a new rig, I looked for

Re: [digitalradio] Re: PSK interface

2009-05-21 Thread Phil Barnett
Jerry Rappel wrote: Thanks for the reply. No it's not a NOMIC interface. Has no markings on the case except /Soundcard interface for PC generated / /PSK-31 and RTTY modes, PTT support on serial port RTS line/. Black box is about 1 X 2 . (maybe it was a kit, put together well). Has a TXA

Re: [digitalradio] Question for the Linux gurus

2009-05-16 Thread Phil Barnett
Dave wrote: I posted a different question a few days ago, and a respondent suggested I use Linux. Here's a follow up question. I have an older laptop computer on which I may want to load Linux. It is a Pentium II operating at 366 Mhz. It currently has Windows 98 as the OS. I'm thinking of

Re: [digitalradio] Who Is Where Now : Idea, needs inventor

2009-05-01 Thread Phil Barnett
Andy obrien wrote: Take at look at this fake web page http://www.obriensweb.com/whoiswhere.html I was thinking about the idea of a reverse DX cluster or an expansion of the concepts behind hrdlog.net . A plce to see who is QRV and where they are on the bands. Not DX spots, just who is

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Psk Mail Help someone!!

2009-04-04 Thread Phil Barnett
Simon (HB9DRV) wrote: I doubt it *very* much! Interest would pick up. That's pretty funny.

Re: [digitalradio] Announcing the 5th Annual (2008) Digitalradio Awards :

2009-02-01 Thread Phil Barnett
Andy obrien wrote: Digital Mode Aid - Innovation of the Year : Philip Gladstone's PSK Reporter . Integrated with DM780, this tool is one of the most useful for those days when you wonder if you are getting out!Find it at http://www.hamspots.net/30m/ or within DM780. I think you wanted

Re: [digitalradio] OFF TOPIC

2009-01-07 Thread Phil Barnett
aat3ol wrote: I AM LOOKING FOR A USED BUT WORKING 2 METER VERTICAL How about building one? It doesn't get much cheaper or easier than this one: http://www.hamuniverse.com/2metergp.html And as far as I can tell, they work as good or better than any j-pole because you don't need any choke to

Re: [digitalradio] Broken PC question

2008-12-21 Thread Phil Barnett
Andrew O'Brien wrote: Please excuse the non-radio question... We have a PC that just stopped working, looking for some possible ideas. The PC (a desk top) was knocked over by a frustrated teenager , when plugged back in the power light comes back on but nothing is seen by the monitor , no

Re: [digitalradio] Accurate time-keeping in Linux. An attempt at a HOWTO

2008-09-16 Thread Phil Barnett
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 11:29:17 am Hal wrote: netdate ntp.demon.co.uk /or/ netdate time-a.nist.gov hwclock -w will fix the time. Yes, it will. But ntpdate does much more than fix the time and date. It observes clock drift over a long period of time and applies constant

Re: [digitalradio] Ham Radio Deluxe 4.0 in time for Dayton

2008-05-13 Thread Phil Barnett
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 04:25:28 am Andrew O'Brien wrote: The next release of Ham Radio Deluxe and Digital Master 780 will be made for Dayton 2008 (May 16th - 18th). Kits will be available from the US Interface stand #556. Downloads available May 19th / 20th (after Dayton is finished).

Re: [digitalradio] Multiple Digital Modes: Time to get rid of most ?

2008-04-21 Thread Phil Barnett
On Sunday 20 April 2008 05:03:27 am Laurent Laborde wrote: Hello, i have exactly the same problem. PSK31 is a good mode, but i'm tired of PSK31 only QSO. I try to use exoctic mode only. All flavors of Hellschreiber, Throb, Ale, Olivia, ALE, Stanag, Packet, ... It can take MANY hours to

Re: [digitalradio] RFSM8000 and Yaesu FT857

2008-04-20 Thread Phil Barnett
On Saturday 19 April 2008 12:19:55 am Leskep wrote: Hi Alan This is using the digi port on the 857 with all dsp functions off but I need 2400 hz of audio passband just to fit the non standard RFSM8000 signal in and just cant get it from stock standard 857 Maybe just put it back in my mobile

Re: [digitalradio] Shoutcast of PSK31 - 14.070

2008-03-28 Thread Phil Barnett
On Thursday 27 March 2008 05:15:16 pm Bill Vodall WA7NWP wrote: Has anybody set up a Shoutcast or similar Internet radio feed of a psk radio channel like 14.070? I wonder how the latency and jitter on an TCP/IP audio feed would be tolerated. I just went through the process of setting up an

Re: [digitalradio] 300hz filter - what modes?

2008-02-15 Thread Phil Barnett
On Friday 15 February 2008 09:43:39 am btwlgw wrote: Besides PSK31 63, what other modes can be decoded with a 300hz filter? Isn't MFSK16 just a little too wide? Ben,K4GST From experience, mfsk16 fits just fine in a 300Hz filter. -- Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart

Re: [digitalradio] UI Design

2008-02-01 Thread Phil Barnett
On Friday 01 February 2008 04:34:57 am Simon Brown wrote: UI Design is something I am not very good at That must have hurt. I mean poking your tongue into your cheek that hard must have hurt. You have masterful UI design skills. -- Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart

Re: [digitalradio] Not enough Serial Ports

2008-01-26 Thread Phil Barnett
On Saturday 26 January 2008 01:06:20 pm Barry Mertz wrote: Questions: I am using an old IBM with Windows 98 operating system. The computer has two usb ports and one DB9 serial port. This is what I want to hook up. An MFJ-1275 sound card adapter. I also want to run HAM Radio Deluxe and control

Re: [digitalradio] Opinions please...What is the best interface for PSK31?

2008-01-24 Thread Phil Barnett
On Thursday 24 January 2008 01:36:46 pm Jeff Hochman wrote: OK, granted this is a subjective question and people could possibly have various opinions one way or the other, but I'm looking to get into PSK31 and am shopping around for an interface between my IC-718 transceiver and my PC.

Re: [digitalradio] Re: been thinking about an oscilloscope

2008-01-22 Thread Phil Barnett
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 02:51:08 am Tooner wrote: What's the difference between an oscilloscope and a spectrum analyzer? I use software spectrum analyzers, but still have ambient baseline noise since it's input is via a soundcard. Can I get the same benefits with an oscilloscope that I

Re: [digitalradio] been thinking about an oscilloscope

2008-01-22 Thread Phil Barnett
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 12:47:35 am Tooner wrote: I've been thinking about getting an oscilloscope. I've got some idea of what to look for in one when using it with amateur radio, but am wondering about one I've found several of for under 200 bucks. It's the Tektronix 465 dual trace

Re: [digitalradio] TV Whitespace Testing

2008-01-20 Thread Phil Barnett
On Sunday 20 January 2008 03:54:39 pm kh6ty wrote: I think it was also used for timing signals at one time. Seems that there used to be a way to pull down the top of the screen scan and see the information. That wasn't white space, that was the VITS. Vertical Interval Test Signal.

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Trouble at mill RTTY contesters war with HFlink

2008-01-14 Thread Phil Barnett
On Sunday 13 January 2008 08:15:45 pm John Becker, WØJAB wrote: The anti-automatic  and   anti-everything-that-is-not-PSK31 hams have a very hard time understanding what the rest are doing. Some of us are just ant-Bully In The Neighborhood. You simply refuse to recognize that some modes are a

Re: [digitalradio] 6000 Users of ALE Channel ZERO in 2007

2008-01-03 Thread Phil Barnett
On Thursday 03 January 2008 06:43:34 am Mark Thompson wrote: 6000 Users of ALE Channel ZERO in 2007 The ALE Channel ZERO website went on the air in August 2007, with reception reporting of ham radio ALE activity worldwide and a chat room for ALE operators. Bonnie Crystal, VR2/KQ6XA reports

Re: [digitalradio] RM-11392

2007-12-27 Thread Phil Barnett
On Thursday 27 December 2007 02:40:01 am Steve Hajducek wrote: I would also like to see the availability of stations involved in the support of Emergency Communications, during such an event allowed to work multi-mode Voice/Digital in the Voice segments and not have to move off frequency.

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

2007-12-27 Thread Phil Barnett
On Thursday 27 December 2007 01:34:56 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If folks would utilize the time they spend complaining learning to be better operators, Interpretation: Learn to get out of the way of automated stations when they come on frequency without checking to see if the frequency is

Re: [digitalradio] Fw: [illinoisdigitalham] Will You Let FCC Kill Digital Radio Technology?

2007-12-27 Thread Phil Barnett
On Thursday 27 December 2007 04:35:11 pm David Struebel wrote: especially during contests... Traffic thru put declines severely during these contests. And this is as it should be. During heavy use, bandwidth is a limited resource. And if you have decent busy detectors and you detect that the

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Will You Let FCC Kill Digital Radio Technology?

2007-12-26 Thread Phil Barnett
On Wednesday 26 December 2007 03:30:34 am W2XJ wrote: I agree. anytime a wideband mode is interfering with narrower band modes, there must be an investigation. That's a pretty broad brush. Perhaps for repeated and documented interference by some specific mode.

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Will You Let FCC Kill Digital Radio Technology?

2007-12-26 Thread Phil Barnett
On Wednesday 26 December 2007 03:02:37 am expeditionradio wrote: an attempt to prevent the destruction of ham radio as we know it. The same thing was said by spark gap operators when they didn't want CW. Yeah, but with some major differences. Spark was tearing up the whole band. That move

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Will You Let FCC Kill Digital Radio Technology?

2007-12-26 Thread Phil Barnett
On Wednesday 26 December 2007 03:09:28 am Roger J. Buffington wrote: OK, bottom line, does the petition, if approved, kill Winlink? Good question. Bonnie?

Re: [digitalradio] Will You Let FCC Kill Digital Radio Technology?

2007-12-25 Thread Phil Barnett
On Tuesday 25 December 2007 11:47:13 pm expeditionradio wrote: Read the petition: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdfid_docume nt=6519008574 RM-11392 part 1 and http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdfid_docume nt=6519008575 RM-11392 part

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Will You Let FCC Kill Digital Radio Technology?

2007-12-25 Thread Phil Barnett
On Wednesday 26 December 2007 02:44:49 am expeditionradio wrote:  How will this RM will KILL digital radio?   It will prevent present digital data technologies that now use normal HF ham transceivers for time-division sharing of frequencies. It will kill new developments of fast digital

Re: [digitalradio] Dual Boot on Acer Aspire]

2007-12-06 Thread Phil Barnett
On Thursday 06 December 2007 01:42:54 am Shuler Burton wrote: the boot managers that linux and variants use works well. the minor problem is that most C drives will be NTFS file system and linux still likes FAT32 better so if you can convert the NTFS to FAT32 then linux may like it better.

Re: [digitalradio] DRCC multiplier Numbers / 1/1/08 contests

2007-12-06 Thread Phil Barnett
On Thursday 06 December 2007 10:13:04 am Roger J. Buffington wrote: I see that you modestly assigned yourself #1.  :-) de Roger W6VZV It's always best to be the lead dog...

Re: [digitalradio] 10 MHz Amateur Radio balloon to Cross the Atlantic

2007-11-05 Thread Phil Barnett
.b.7, but there is the question of control. Maybe someone can educate me how this is legal. I doubt that the FCC has jurisdiction over the Atlantic Ocean airspace. -- Phil Barnett AI4OF SKCC #600 DRCC #51

[digitalradio] Digital Frequencies

2007-10-16 Thread Phil Barnett
73 macro's, I'm not sure how the general population will know about the Digital Radio Century Club. -- Phil Barnett AI4OF SKCC #600 DRCC #51