Re: [digitalradio] Re: Contestia

2010-04-18 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:06:46 +0200 (CEST), Rein Couperus r...@couperus.com said: On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:43:54 +0100, Stelios Bounanos said: On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:37:31 -0700, Brian Lloyd said: (I forgot to reply to all.) (I removed one level of characters below) It is really Really

Re: [digitalradio] Re: KB1OOQ-5 back ON-LINE (Comcast comes through)

2010-03-26 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:41:19 -0500, mikea mi...@mikea.ath.cx said: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:06:38AM -, aa777888athotmaildotcom wrote: Very unusual to have an outage, actually, especially with no weather in the area. In 10 years I can count them on the fingers of one hand. So, fewer

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Olivia web site

2010-03-08 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:09:50 -, g4ilo jul...@g4ilo.com said: I downloaded Pawel's source code for his text mode demo application and despite not knowing C++ managed eventually to compile and run it under Linux. However I understand that on Windows it must run under CygWin or MinGW which

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:29:23 -0500, KH6TY kh...@comcast.net said: [snip] It looks to me that the tone frequencies are clearly being generated independently from the data and then the data applied to the randomly generated frequency. There is NO pattern to ROS like there is to FSK modes,

Re: [digitalradio] ROS impressions so far

2010-02-24 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:05:36 -, obrienaj k3uka...@gmail.com said: In the few ROS 16 and ROS 1 tests that I have dome so far... ROS 16 seems similar to Olivia 8/1000 , good performance but perhaps a not quite as good as Olivia under QRM or deep fades. ROS 1 , not as good as JT65A in

Re: [digitalradio] RTTY decoding

2010-02-16 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:53:04 -0800 (PST), Rick Westerfield r_lwesterfi...@bellsouth.net said: Download MixW 2.19. It is easy to install, free and you do not need much of a processor. It uses your soundcard as the modem and an HF radio to gather the signals. Your computer processor is the

Re: [digitalradio] Re: source of 8 pin female radio connectors?

2010-01-26 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:43:44 -, sszretter sszret...@hotmail.com said: I thought of digikey or mouser, but what is the generic electronic part name for it? DIN connector? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_connector -- 73, Stelios, M0GLD.

Re: [digitalradio] Comparison of RTTY software sensitivity

2010-01-20 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:01:32 -0500, Wes Cosand wes.cos...@gmail.com said: Recently during a QSO a ham said the software I was using was not very sensitive. I decided I needed to collect some data to make an informed decision about which software I should be using. I ran several of the

Re: [digitalradio] Fldigi and rig control on OS X

2010-01-18 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:44:50 -0900, Mike M alaskam...@gmail.com said: Hello - I just bought a USB cat control cable for my Yaesu FT-817, and want to use it with Fldigi to control my rig. I installed hamlib, but I don't understand how to set it up in Fldigi (there are no radios listed

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

2009-12-26 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:07:39 -0700, Alan Wilson ke4...@gmail.com said: I'd have to go with the Yaesu ft-857D, it does it all with a small footprint, reasonable price and very dependable... I have one of those and I like it for many reasons, but it's not a very good rig for digital modes.

Re: [digitalradio] Is there a convention for stereo phone plugs?

2009-11-27 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:14:26 -, jhaynesatalumni jhhay...@earthlink.net said: I've never known if there is a standard for whether tip or ring is left or right channel. Tip is usually left channel. And is left or right normally used for the computer DSP radio software? Mono output

Re: [digitalradio] DominoEX 11 is more democratic

2009-11-26 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:19:24 -0300, Claudio toa...@gmail.com said: Only a question, what program can i used for this mode?. I work with mixw 2.16. Fldigi is one of the programs that you can use for DominoEX. It supports DominoEX 4/5/8/11/16/22, with and without FEC:

Re: [digitalradio] Contesters and DXers should use busy detectors

2009-11-25 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:29:13 -, expeditionradio expeditionra...@yahoo.com said: All contesters and DX pileup participants should use busy detectors! This is quite evident since it has been proven that such types of operation are the source of 99% of harmful interference and

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-25 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:30:21 -0500, Alan Barrow ml9...@pinztrek.com said: [snip] OK, here's the challenge: Demonstrate it's feasibility if it's JSMOP. Implement one that balances the right of the sending station not to be QRM'd VS the expectation not to QRM. Publish an API a spec

Re: [digitalradio] using fldigi

2009-11-20 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:13:46 -0500, DANNY DOUGLAS n...@comcast.net said: Been pulling what is left of my hair out here, trying to get fldigi to operate CAT with the TS570sg, but so far it just sits there. Is there not a Yahoo group for fildigi? Cannot find any such thing in Yahoo. Is

Re: [digitalradio] ZS pigeon 'faster than broadband'

2009-09-10 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:44:30 +0200, Barry Murrell ZS2EZ mailgro...@zs2ez.co.za said: The real drawback with pigeons is that they stand a good chance of becoming someone's dinner before reaching their destination!! This is why you need retransmissions [1], Barry :-) And if the pigeon

[digitalradio] Fldigi users' survey

2009-08-25 Thread Stelios Bounanos
The Fldigi Users' Survey 2009 is open: http://www.survs.com/survey?id=0G4NPBMPchannel=FF95UTI7N4 If you are a current or past user, please take our survey and help us improve fldigi. If you have never used fldigi[1] before, we invite you to try it now! The survey is anonymous and will only

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Soliciting suggestions

2009-08-11 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:02:29 -, Howard Z. howar...@yahoo.com said: [...] OK, then there is Olivia. Nobody in our group wants to use Fldigi/Flarq because we are forced to use a custom mode. Olivia is not a custom mode. It is well supported and most (all?) useful bandwidth/tones pairs

Re: [digitalradio] Compressing Data

2009-08-01 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:52:10 +0200, Rein Couperus r...@couperus.com said: PSKmail uses normal zip compression and B64 encoding. On small files with english text the compression reached by using varicode alone is better. That is why I abandoned compression for email text. Also, when you

Re: [digitalradio] Zapped PCs, data recovery, and Windows !

2009-07-23 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:38:00 -0400, Andrew O'Brien andrewob...@gmail.com said: My local computer store tells me that one cannot simply take a hard drive from a old Pc and place it in a new PC even if you have a Windows license disc for the new PC. Is this correct? I expect you'll have all

Re: [digitalradio] possible purchase

2009-07-14 Thread Stelios Bounanos
it being excellent value. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Stelios Bounanos digra...@enotty.net Errr, 10Hz tuning, no IF DSP, no external reference input. Perhaps the best for some unspecified definitions of market and digi use? :-) -- 73

Re: [digitalradio] possible purchase

2009-07-14 Thread Stelios Bounanos
- Original Message - From: Stelios Bounanos digra...@enotty.net IF DSP includes the tunable bandpass filters. I like the idea of rejecting QRM with an adjustable digital filter before it hits the audio stage. This is the only kind of DSP that I would find remotely useful for digital

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital modes and old husband's tales

2009-07-14 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:28:34 -, Ralph Lambert ralph.lamb...@gmail.com said: [...] Hint: fldigi by itself good, fldigi and xlog or similar application together not good. Please explain and we might be able to improve things. The communication between fldigi and xlog is one-way. Fldigi

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Get more out of digital with RISD

2009-07-13 Thread Stelios Bounanos
Hello Dan, On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:24:17 -, d_ziolkowski dan.ziolkow...@gmail.com said: I use FLDIGI 3.1 for Linux, I set it up for RSID. I get nothing, all decoding stops. Is this normal? or did I miss something. At present, RSID is mutually exclusive with normal decoding. This makes

Re: [digitalradio] possible purchase

2009-07-13 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:20:21 -0500, John Bradley jbrad...@sasktel.net said: [...] The 480 is perhaps the best rig on the market right now for digi use, in my not-so-humble opinion Errr, 10Hz tuning, no IF DSP, no external reference input. Perhaps the best for some unspecified definitions

Re: [digitalradio] Possible Purchase

2009-07-12 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:25:10 -0500, Rick W mrf...@frontiernet.net said: As was mentioned, construction may be impractical for many hams. In my case, I have been soldering since around age 13 or so with my first crystal radio kit and later many kits and dozens of projects over the years,

Re: [digitalradio] The usual OS Flame war thread....

2009-04-02 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:41:46 -0500, Rick W mrf...@frontiernet.net said: [...] Needless to say I won't even respond the the impertinent comments by Hal since they are basically an attack on the intelligence and abilities of most computer users rather than on any merits. Those of us who have

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Windows server?

2009-03-31 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:50:11 +0200, Rein Couperus r...@couperus.com said: Yes, the server is linux only at the moment. Ultimate goal is to use a LAMP server without a GUI in future, but fldigi needs the GUI :) Fldigi needs an X11 display (on Linux/FreeBSD), which makes it

Re: [digitalradio] PSK Reporter with FLdigi ?

2009-03-01 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:15:38 -, Andrew O'Brien k3uka...@gmail.com said: I have PSK Reporter working with DM780, but no reception reports are sent to PSK Reporter when I use FLdigi. Is there a special trick to setting it up ? I have my call sign, name and grid square in the FLdigi

Re: [digitalradio] fldigi qrz.com look up

2008-09-08 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:29:56 -, Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: ? ok Ive entered my qrz.com login details in the right boxes ..select a call .. click and get the reply 'details required' ... what have I missed ? ..digipan system is working so web link is ok This was recently

Re: [digitalradio] Re: fldigi qrz.com look up

2008-09-08 Thread Stelios Bounanos
Hi Graham, On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:31:48 -, Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thanks for the link, Stelios, I'n not quite sure of the final situation, I know i can access via digipan or dm780, however are 'you' using a differant service from qrz ?, as nither of the other packages need a

Re: [digitalradio] Move away from PSK63 /31 in NBEMS?

2008-08-18 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:04:22 -0400, Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I note the new release of FL-Digi does not list PSK31 or 63 under NBEMS modes. I realize that Dave , Skip, and others never really intended NBEMS to have much use on HF , hence PSK250/125, but was wondering why the

Re: [digitalradio] Online HF Receivers?

2008-07-30 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:00:53 -0400, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: All, Anyone know of any online receivers / remote base stations on the internet? The W4MQ remote base seems to be having problems these days. Often use remotes on HF/VHF for meteor scatter / digital mode tests. Here is

Re: [digitalradio] DV Equalizer

2008-06-13 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:43:48 -0400, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: All, Does anyone know of a good audio EQ program similar to the Romac 10 band EQ? Need one that can use different sound cards for mic / speaker input / outputs. An open source program would be ideal. Take a look at the JACK

[digitalradio] Mac OS X / MT-63 (was: Re: April QST page 35)

2008-03-26 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:25:13 -0500, chas [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rumoured to have said: wow! so, what is the Mac OS-X version called ??? STILL looking for MT-63 for the Mac. Thanks to a kind ham who gave us remote access to his OS X machine, we have been able to get fldigi 2.10 to build and