Re: [digitalradio] Is Propnet/HF APRS legal in USA ? (was : Trouble at mill RTTY contesters war with HFlink

2008-01-13 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Andy, That's just nonsense. /s/ Steve, N2CKH At 09:03 AM 1/13/2008, you wrote: Yes, I received a private email from the individual that is preparing the IED's. With reference to ALE soundings, he cites .. ) 1 illegal 1-way transmissions; 2) illegal automatic beaconing below 28.200

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE Sounding and How does it work?

2008-01-12 Thread Steve Hajducek
Rick, You obviously don't understand NVIS, the bulk of all my ALE activity is NVIS based, this is true of Amateur Radio as well, which is 30m and lower ( 5Mhz thru 11Mhz is excellent during the day, that is our premiere MARS range, 5-7Mhz can be counted on 24/7 by the way, its too bad that

Re: [digitalradio] ALE in a nutshell (and ALE dating FLARQ)

2008-01-12 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Andy, All true, I could not agree more! /s/ Steve, N2CKH At 10:20 AM 1/12/2008, you wrote: I'll say again... the only thing wrong with the concept of ALE is the lack of active users. Everything else about ALE makes perfect sense to me. Here are the basics.

Re: [digitalradio] ALE in a nutshell (and ALE dating FLARQ)

2008-01-12 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Alan, I agree to a point, it depends on ones focus, if you recall I have always run my GAP DX Voyager antenna when looking for world wide activity such as in HFlink events, that antenna at 100 watts and an ATU works all Amateur bands 100%. However using a Skywave antenna heavily takes

Re: [digitalradio] Ale Sounding: What is it and how does it work?

2008-01-11 Thread Steve Hajducek
John, Your message below is easy to summarize succinctly, thanks. At 09:48 PM 1/10/2008, you wrote: Chris , ZL1BOE you will be told by others that ALE is widely used to set up QSO’s and QSY’s using the one line message ability . You will also be told that it is used widely for keyboard to

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE Sounding and How does it work?

2008-01-11 Thread Steve Hajducek
John, Sorry but I know the relative level of activity at times. There is far less ALE than various other modes and more ALE than various other modes as well. It all depends on your point of reference, just as there is Hellscriber than GTOR and more CW than PSK31, regardless your statement

Re: [digitalradio] Emergency agencies/ ham equipment/ hams in emcomm

2008-01-10 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, From reading your comments I see you still fail to fully understand the potential value of ALE to Amateur Radio, especially to ECOM. ALE is the great facilitator to follow on communications, nothing aside from MIL-STD AQC-ALE and the host of copy cat systems such by the likes of

Re: [digitalradio] RM-11392

2007-12-28 Thread Steve Hajducek
Rick, RM-11392 is a most excellent example of a bad petition in my opinion. As Andrew stated, The proposal has no chance of being adopted. Also, I don't see any relevance to your CW vs. SSB comments and RM-11392. I don't know where the heck you operate CW, even with my oldest hybrid

Re: [digitalradio] RM-11392

2007-12-26 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, You really need to view RM-11392 for what it is, the entire thrust of RM-11392 in my opinion is an effort at protectionism ( its an old story that dates back ages ) of obsolete technology and practices by an attempt to limit the advancement of new technologies and practices, this is

Re: [digitalradio] RM-11392

2007-12-26 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Bruce, From your reply I can see that my statement really it home, sorry if the the hurts! /s/ Steve, N2CKH At 07:07 PM 12/26/2007, you wrote: You really need to view RM-11392 for what it is, the entire thrust of RM-11392 in my opinion is an effort at protectionism ( its an old story that

Re: [digitalradio] RM-11392

2007-12-26 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, At 08:26 PM 12/26/2007, you wrote: Hi Steve, I agree that it is a type of protectionism. Which in my opinion is a worst case issue for the Amateur Radio Service (ARS) than the technical challenges being presented. I did not view it that way as much until we really started seeing

Re: [digitalradio] FDMDV Patent Issue?

2007-12-13 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Peter, I have been very busy lately and just now reading the items on FDMDV, however its the Mixed Excitation Linear Prediction (MELP) for digital speech that was developed as U.S. and STANAG standards over the last 10 years or so then I don't see any issues. /s/ Steve, N2CKH At 10:34

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

2007-12-11 Thread Steve Hajducek
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. All you need to do is select either KENWOOD or if using CTS/RTS handshaking,

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

2007-12-11 Thread Steve Hajducek
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 allow CAT control via COM1 and

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE400 – Narrow band ALE mode now available

2007-11-02 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Brian, At 08:29 AM 11/2/2007, you wrote: I'm not trying to be a pain in the butt, honest. Neither is my reply meant to be anything other than pointing out the obvious. We need narrower bandwidths not wider bandwidths for real progress with the real life crowded bands. I think that is

Re: [digitalradio] Digital Propagation Tests

2007-10-29 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, You obviously do not use MT-63 to pass book traffic on a daily basis on NVIS paths, fore if you did your opinion would be completely different and if you don't believe me, just ask any MARS member that is using a Sound Card based system these days and they will tell you just how

Re: [digitalradio] Digital Propagation Tests

2007-10-27 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Tony, Too bad you did not also run MT-63 at all three modes for comparison. I can tell you that next to the various 75bps Robust mode on the MIL-STD-188-110/STANAG modem, its very robust. However under such conditions nothing but an ARQ protocol will really suffice. /s/ Steve, N2CKH At

Re: [digitalradio] Need new emergency communications mode

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Hajducek
Rick, I don't share your dream Rick, sorry that you did not like that description, but I was trying to be polite about it. I am not here to stop you or anyone from pursuing your dreams, go learn C++ or Ada and start coding it up into your dream communications software. However I am a realist

RE: [digitalradio] Need new emergency communications mode

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Hajducek
, no surprises there. /s/ Steve, N2CKH At 12:22 AM 10/18/2007, you wrote: AA6YQ comments below From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Hajducek snip 2. With respect to Remote User to Automatic Station communications, the human operator initiates

Re: [digitalradio] Need new emergency communications mode

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Hajducek
Rick, At 03:21 PM 10/18/2007, you wrote: Steve, This is not a dream of mine. This is what eventually will have to be if automatic operation is to continue to be permitted on amateur frequencies. Its just a dream on your part and other until such time rules ever require it Rick. This

RE: [digitalradio] Need new emergency communications mode

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Hajducek
Dave, As simple as I can put it for you, it is my opinion that the better solution is separation into sub bands is the only logical solution to your perceived issues with automated stations triggered by remote users as technology as we know it now (and likely for a very long time to come)

Re: [digitalradio] Current balun

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Dave, Basically your intent is to de-couple that antenna from the feed line for consistent performance, as such for a resonant dipole feed you can use a 1:1 balun, you internal antenna tuner will work much better. A 4:1 balun for a resonant dipole will yield a higher VSWR at the point of

Re: [digitalradio] Need new emergency communications mode

2007-10-17 Thread Steve Hajducek
, will they ever get a chance to send that health and welfare traffic in a timely manor or at all? Hopefully some of this has assisted you in seeing more of the complexity and down sides of this busy frequency detection dream Rick. Sincerely, /s/ Steve Hajducek, N2CKH At 09:56 AM 10/17/2007, you

Re: [digitalradio] PCALE with IC706IIG

2007-10-14 Thread Steve Hajducek
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 set. Don't both checking SPLIT

RE: [digitalradio] PCALE... it's making me insane!

2007-10-14 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Peter, You need to join the HFlink forum or the FlexRadio forum as not having a system here I can only tell you that what I coded into PC-ALE works when all else involved in the radio configuration is solid and that's about it on my end, I just don't have any feel for it beyond the PC-ALE

Re: [digitalradio] PCALE with IC706IIG

2007-10-14 Thread Steve Hajducek
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. /s/ Steve, N2CKH At 11:02 AM 10/14/2007, you wrote: Steve Hajducek wrote: Hi Kevin, If you select by model number from Radio Type you want your radio

Re: [digitalradio] ALE NOCALL ISSUE

2007-10-13 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Guys, You need to either use an ASCII editor like NOTEPAD and use find and replace on NOCALL to change to your callsign and reload the .QRG file OR Select an unused SCAN GROUP where no OWN is being used and starting at the top menu selection Address Modify Own and select NOCALL from

Re: [digitalradio] PCALE... it's making me insane!

2007-10-13 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Peter, A number of fellows tested the new radio control in PC-ALE v1.062H in the latest builds ( #5 being the most recent) with the SDR-1000 and all works just fine I am told, although I wrote it, I don't have one here to test with. If you are using DIG instead of USB, you need to

Re: [digitalradio] Ale

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi David, I know of no *nux based native application that has been offered to the world yet as ready for use. There is a package for developers that Charles Brain and another fellow placed on SourceForge under GNU called LinuxALE that dates back over 5 years now, which I have not seen anyone

Re: [digitalradio] interesting piece by K1ZZ

2007-10-02 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi John, For ARRL members, that piece was on page 9 of the Oct 2007 QST. More and more ALE will become integrated into the Amateur Radio Service (ARS) do to its significant advantages, it is just such an obvious path to take with respect to the role that the ARS plays in ECOM support for one

Re: [digitalradio] Re: interesting piece by K1ZZ

2007-10-02 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Jim, It sounds almost like you are making case to abolish all forms of Amateur Radio Contesting with this argument of yours, no where in the FCC rules are contesting ( which by the way I enjoy ) mentioned as such, actually many of the FCC rules could be used to make an argument against

Re: [digitalradio] interesting piece by K1ZZ

2007-10-02 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Andy, The FCC rules don't actually require changing WRT ALE other than to satisfy those that want to see things spelled out in black and white specifically approving or disapproving each and everyone little thing. This is not the intent of the FCC to constantly be updating the rules to

Re: [digitalradio] ALE yes ... or no?

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, That reference is to Government/Military HF e-mail topology which has evolved to the STANAG 5066 standard pretty much across the board, however not everyone is there yet due to costs and time to update their network infrastructures. STANAG 5066 can basically be thought of as what

RE: [digitalradio] ALE standards work fine Re: [hflink] ARQ FAE

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rud, In my opinion there is already a better ALE, it is Alternate Quick Call (AQC) ALE which improves upon ALE in a number of ways as detailed in MILl-STD-188-141B where a number new features have been added ( such as shorter linking cycles, 6 character maximum SELCALs, PSK burst mode

Re: [digitalradio] Re: PC-Ale TS-480

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi John, I sent you a direct e-mail with screen caps that should get you going. /s/ Steve, N2CKH At 04:32 PM 9/24/2007, you wrote: well I d'loaded the not quite latest version as Steve suggested, and , as before, I can copy stations but cannot transmit anything, except using VOX. The comms

Re: [digitalradio] Re: PC-Ale TS-480

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Joe, You must be using PC-ALE v1.062H ( build #2 should be used) for the support of the IC746PRO data port, when you use ADD or MODIFY channels you need to select USB-D and not USB. When using the Radio Type selection of 746PRO you need to use the factory address and 19,200 baud, if you

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE yes ... or no?

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi John, Using PC-ALE v1.062H Interim build 2 from the HFlink forum files section ( forget build 3, it has an issue), just select radio type KENWOOD or if you want to use RTS/CTS handshaking, KENWOOD_HS and if your radio supports more than 4800 baud, click on Radio Port and provide the Baud

RE: [digitalradio] ALE standards work fine Re: [hflink] ARQ FAE

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rud, Sorry that I could not be of help in getting you squared away with your understanding of ALE. /s/ Steve, N2CKH At 07:14 PM 9/23/2007, you wrote: See my main comment inline below... This is likely my last response to these messages. I have better things to do than argue with a group

Re: [digitalradio] ALE yes ... or no?

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, Patricks FAE ARQ is an excellent protocol, it is the best example to date in my opinion of a PCSMD based ARQ protocol developed for Amateur Radio. The ALE 8FSK is not being replace by serial tone modem use for its Sounding/LQA/Calling/Linking, believe me that is not going to happen.

Re: [digitalradio] Here's some frequencies for unattended HF operations

2007-09-22 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Andy, Frequencies are are required on all the Amateur Radio band assets to deal with the changes in propagation 24/7. As a matter of fact, the Amateur Radio Service does not have enough allocations to actually deal with 24/7 propagation changes, a key reason for the WARC bands in '79 and

RE: [digitalradio] Re: [hflink] ARQ FAE

2007-09-22 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rud, Yes, the Military and Government HF users can and do at times operate with more RF EIRP that we Radio Amateurs have licensed limits for operating. However, WRT ALE at least, its not needed and the bulk of HF Military activity is usually within NVIS ranges as its tactical, and with

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Busy Detectors

2007-09-19 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Jim, You really must be making a tongue in check joking reply here, that is the only way that I can take such a reply as the Amateur Radio bands have been broken down into specific use for decades and ever changing. I can NOT go down to 14.004Mhz and make a SSB contact as it is dedicated

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Busy Detectors

2007-09-18 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Jim, You really must be making a tongue in check joking reply here, that is the only way that I can take such a reply as the Amateur Radio bands have been broken down into specific use for decades and ever changing. I can NOT go down to 14.004Mhz and make a SSB contact as it is dedicated

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Busy Detectors

2007-09-18 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Jim, A good analogy of sharing spectrum between peer-to-peer and remote-to-automated is like a car or any size sharing a single road lane with a tractor trailer, where both are competing to have the lane, the outcome is clear in the long run, however what would be better, especially for

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Busy Detectors

2007-09-17 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hello Rud, How often does a remote users sending traffic through an automated station have to wait due to an exasberated number of ARQ retries due to stations purposely transmitting CQ's or whatever just because they don't care that its not a two-way QSO that is inhabiting the channel. It's

Re: [digitalradio] Re: QRL ? Busy detect ALE

2007-09-16 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Andy, Yes you are missing the key item with this support, its called Voice Detect, not Busy Detect! As such its looking for channel acty that is Voice or Voice like ( which is what I hate about this item) to hold off transmitting. In Amateur Radio as in most applications of ALE, you have

Re: [digitalradio] So there I was -

2007-09-14 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, Take any non-GUI or even a GUI OS that has been tailored down for the embedded application at hand that is running sufficient CPU/RAM and you could implement a PI through PIII solution if SCS would allow it. PII and PIII if fully documented could be done using a PC Sound Device Modem

Re: [digitalradio] Re: help for setting pcale with FT1000 MP mark V

2007-08-06 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Jon, Simon: Well MS-Windows being an event driven, multi-tasking environment is the not the best environment when it comes to dealing with signaling and data comm ports, however it can be managed for PTT needs reasonable well depending on how strict such PTT timing requirements are. For

Re: [digitalradio] help for setting pcale with FT1000 MP mark V

2007-08-06 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, At 09:59 AM 8/6/2007, you wrote: In terms of CAT PTT, aren't you using some of the same interfacing with RS-232 serial connection for rig control? It seems a step backwards to set up two RS-232 serial ports considering that we also need to convert from USB. I admit that the ICOM CI-V

Re: [digitalradio] Experiences from users of MIL-STD-188-110

2007-08-06 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Andy, In the U.S. ( correct me if I am wrong) which you are located, 300bps for MIL-STD-188-110 is not legal for data on HF, nothing is due to the symbol rate. Anyhow, what ever, who ever, where ever does using MIL-STD-188-110 within the ARS, the standard 1800hz PSK carrier and 2400bps

Re: [digitalradio] help for setting pcale with FT1000 MP mark V

2007-08-05 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, At 02:38 PM 8/5/2007, you wrote: Steve and those interested in the ICOM rigs for ALE: I had asked Steve: I am using the default hex address 64 with CAT PTT selected. And he responded with information on the new Alpha version: For the new ALPHA version of PC-ALE you still need to

Re: [digitalradio] AQC ALE ?

2007-08-04 Thread Steve Hajducek
GM Andy, In PC-ALE the AQC-ALE operation differs from MARS-ALE for some time now, however with both tools selecting AQC-ALE means that all Soundings and Calls originated by your station will be in AQC-ALE mode, which differs from NORMAL ALE and which can only be decoded by an ALE modem that

Re: [digitalradio] help for setting pcale with FT1000 MP mark V

2007-08-04 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hello Ali, The current version of PC-ALE is really RTS/DTR PTT based, the reason being that it has long proven to be much more reliable whereas CAT PTT has not, RF into the radio can lock a rig into TX using CAT PTT and other issues come into play, if you notice most rigs do not support CAT

Re: [digitalradio] help for setting pcale with FT1000 MP mark V

2007-08-04 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, I have replied to your comments many times on these matters: 1. PC-ALE as released does not specifically support the PRO2, the next release will. For now if you are not interested in ALPHA testing the next release, its the use of the GENERIC ICOM interface and DTR/RTS for PTT. It

Re: [digitalradio] AQC ALE ?

2007-08-04 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Andy, It is the same 8FSK modem, however it uses shorter bursts for calling and sounding and there is a PSK burst mode as well which uses the MIL-STD-188-110 modem for generation. /s/ Steve, N2CKH At 09:26 AM 8/4/2007, you wrote: Thanks Steve. Is the AQC-ALE a different digital mode,

Re: [digitalradio] A.L.E., VHS and Betamax

2007-06-19 Thread Steve Hajducek
GM Rick, Alternate Link Call (AQC) ALE is basically 2G Plus ALE in that its an advanced 8FSK form of ALE where most all of the un-necessary overhead of ALE has been removed and new capabilities have been added, to include a PSK burst mode. The linking time to setup is must faster with

Re: [digitalradio] Re: New ARQ FAE mode on Multipsk

2007-02-27 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, Plus it retains the bi-directional (duplex) support ( and most things) of DBM ARQ and thus both stations can type at the same time and as soon as it sync's the resends will only be predicated on propo. /s/ Steve, N2CKH At 10:05 AM 2/27/2007, you wrote: Had a late night connection

REPLY - MARS digital ops - Re: [digitalradio] re: 25-02 crashes

2007-02-25 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, RTTY is dead in MARS in my opinion as to being useful, but still allowed in all three MARS programs as far as I know, CW was vanquished some years ago now, prior to my return to MARS. There are 3 MARS as you know and to date, there are different approaches in all three and many

Re: [digitalradio] 14100.5 kHz USB - ALE Channel Bandwidth, IARU Beacon Guardband

2007-02-24 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Guys, For optimal ALE reception you want your RX passband set to 1625hz when using less than 2.8 or 3.0Khz IF filtering, anyone running a ham rig with the typical 2.1 to 2.7 filtering will need to enable IF shift and move it up in frequency else you are starving the modem from seeing all

Re: [digitalradio] ALE with MULTIPSK + Tests of the MIL-STD-188-141A mode (ALE) and new modes Unproto and ARQ FAE

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hello All, Patrick is to be commended on his efforts to date with regard to adding ALE capabilities to MultiPSK in support of Amateur Radio application single channel. I have been using his new a bit for the past two days and I find his new ARQ FAE protocol which is based on the DTM ARQ

Re: [digitalradio] Need a PDF manual (or any format) for the MFJ 1278 Data Controller

2007-02-13 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Jonathan, Can you accept a 26MB email? /s/ Steve, N2CKH At 12:56 AM 2/13/2007, you wrote: Howdy folks, I need this manual if you have it on PDF. No longer on their site. Thanks, Jonathan KC7FYS

Re: [digitalradio] US Hams Codeless Feb 23

2007-01-20 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Paul, Considering that neither the ARRL or the FCC did the right thing, which would have been to make the Technician Class license the entry class license that it really could have been by maintaining the Novice Subbands and keeping the Novice RF input power for all classes of licensees

Re: [digitalradio] Re: DBM ARQ tests ?

2007-01-17 Thread Steve Hajducek
GM Andy, There are some issues with DBM ARQ in PC-ALE which will be going away, thus the use of RESET MODEM may often be required at times during poor conditions. Also remember to NEVER, NEVER use any of the TRACING functions when you want to use the tool in two-way communications and you

Re: [digitalradio] Re: HF Packet BBS?

2007-01-16 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Andy, A system that implemented the ALE Data Block Message (DBM) ARQ protocol using the PC Sound Device Modem (PCSDM) which at a raw 125 baud with its deep interleaving providing a full 3x throughput on a good circuit where no ACK/NAK failures occurred would be much better. GTOR which

Re: [digitalradio] Re: HF Packet BBS?

2007-01-16 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, The U.S. Declaration of Independence of late has become a popular MARS EXERCISE test message in testing MARS-ALE and with ALE DBM ARQ, that as the body of the message along with the standard MARS message header and tail takes just over 6 minutes if there are no ACK/NAK failures

Re: [digitalradio] Basic Encrypted Data Communication Prior to MIL-STD-188-110

2006-09-21 Thread Steve Hajducek
At 05:14 PM 9/21/2006, you wrote: Prior to the wide deployment of MIL-STD-188-110 equipment, most U.S. military HF data communications used RTTY/ASCII modes through encryption devices. These were large and not really field portable. Hi Walt, The MIL-STD-188-110 parrale16 tone modem with or

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Steve Hajducek
that we would have a sea change in sound card modes. Just to clarify, does the 8PSK have each of the 8 running at 125 baud, or is that the total baud speed and the tones are really 15.625 x 8 which would give you the 125 baud speed? 73, Rick, KV9U Steve Hajducek wrote: GA

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Mark, The Mil-Std-188-110B serial (single-tone) mode use M-ary Phase-Shift Keying (PSK) on a single carrier frequency (1800hz standard) as the modulation technique for data transmission. The serial binary information is converted into a single 8-ary PSK-modulated output carrier where

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Mark, I just seen this after sending you a reply... You go the idea, you actually put it forth simpler than I did as gave you too much detail, but yet just touched the tip of it ! I may have to save your explanation below for a more simple reply in the future, but I can never seem find

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Steve Hajducek
developed as a bus card and the computer mostly being used as a dumb terminal, but it will never be as tight a frequency tolerance as 10 e -6 or so:) 73, Rick, KV9U Steve Hajducek wrote: Hi Rick, ALE itself is 8FSK, 125 baud, all protocols on that modem. After an ALE link, any protocol

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Dave, I really could not say for sure based on your criteria, depending on what you mean as asked. However using ALE and an appropriate Global Allcall or Anycall is very powerful. If the propo is there for the given frequency at the given time of the call, if there were 1,000 stations

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Dave, Regarding the Sounding aspect of life, not all stations need to be Sounding and not all stations need to be Sounding once per hour. Sounding can be adjusted to accommodate the loading of a network. The more stations that are ALE active on the same channel less frequent you sound and

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-08-31 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Dave, Speaking of Ada, I developed the MS-Windows AMDS ( https://peoiewswebinfo.monmouth.army.mil/portal_sites/IEWS_Public/rus//AMDS.htm ) for the I-REMBASS Battlefield Sensor System in Ada for the U.S. Army due to requirements (Ada is a very good large embedded systems language, it is

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-08-31 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Dave, That aspect of PC-ALE in being updated. For a number of years the core users of PC-ALE mostly used a common set of HF SSB transceivers that were well to ALE Scanning use where the PA BPF relays were not an issue or could be bypassed via command and external PTT was mostly used and a

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-08-31 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, At 01:53 PM 8/31/2006, you wrote: The PC-ALE program gave my some difficult times at first with crashing. I think I figured that out. At this time I don't see to be able to get the program to interface with my ICOM 756 Pro 2 rig through the CI-V. For that model with the current PC-ALE

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-08-31 Thread Steve Hajducek
speed? 73, Rick, KV9U Steve Hajducek wrote: GA Rick, Patrick: The stuff from MIL-STD-188-141B that relates the MIL-STD-118-110x modem and Data Link Protocols (DLP) via other standards (e.g. FS-1052 DLP, S5066 DLP etc.) is all high speed serial tone and as specified, not legal under FCC

Re: [digitalradio] FS-1052

2006-08-31 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Walt, PC-ALE and MARS-ALE are long ago there and its operational in the MARS program daily in messaging. Many MARS members with enough CPU/RAM are running MARS-ALE under Windows emulation such as WHINE or CrossOver, however my Linux boxes are rather old PC's ( 4 Red Hat box's - 2x 6.2 for

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-08-31 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Dave, I put in a number of years of DoD IVV and I agree 100% that Ada was a huge benefit over all the languages, many of them unique to a particular CPU or embedded platform. I can't begin to tell you how many languages that I was forced to use in DoD related projects before Ada came

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-08-30 Thread Steve Hajducek
difficult would this be to implement the MIL-STD-188-141-B DLP in software such as Patrick's Multipsk Program? 73, Rick, KV9U Steve Hajducek wrote: Hi Rick, Just time for a quick comment. Don't confuse STANAG 5066 Data Link Protocol (DLP) as covered

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-08-29 Thread Steve Hajducek
in software such as Patrick's Multipsk Program? 73, Rick, KV9U Steve Hajducek wrote: Hi Rick, Just time for a quick comment. Don't confuse STANAG 5066 Data Link Protocol (DLP) as covered in MIL-STD-188-141B which is a Data Link Protocol at the Physical Layer with STANAG

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

2006-08-28 Thread Steve Hajducek
GM Dave, Yes, a technical item up for discussion. I must assume that you have never done any Near Real Time Systems development such as ATE or Industrial Control applications under MS-Windows? I on the other hand have and the WIN32 API beginning all the way back with Windows NT implemented a

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-08-28 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Dave, At 10:53 PM 8/27/2006, you wrote: Does ALE provide some means of reducing contention? I recommend that to answer all of your technical questions on subject ALE that you refer the actual Federal, Military and STANAG Standards which you can find on the Internet quite easily. You can

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-08-28 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Dave, At 10:46 AM 8/28/2006, you wrote: I have reviewed enough of the military documentation to understand that they employ dedicated ALE transceivers capable of much faster scanning rates. Really? Please enlighten me, I was under the impression that the ALE scan rates of 1, 2 and 5

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

2006-08-28 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Dave, I mentioned AMTOR as its timing is more robust that PACTOR I. As I have stated to the MARS-ALE users, the future version of that tool when PACTOR I support is added ont he PCSDM will pretty much own the OS, not a problem for our purposes as that one program running is our only

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-08-28 Thread Steve Hajducek
to look like another one of those the emperor has no clothes findings. Thanks and 73, Rick, KV9U Steve Hajducek wrote: I recommend that to answer all of your technical questions on subject ALE that you refer the actual Federal, Military and STANAG Standards which you can find

Re: [digitalradio] -tor modes and PCs

2006-08-28 Thread Steve Hajducek
At 11:41 AM 8/28/2006, you wrote: I'm willing to believe that the timing tolerances in -tor modes are so tight that ordinary PC operating systems cannot cope with them the way a dedicated processor can. What I don't understand is why the tolerances need to be so tight. The transmitter sends a

Re: [digitalradio] -tor modes and PCs

2006-08-28 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Chris, Take a look at DBM ARQ in http://www.n2ckh.com/MARS_ALE_FORUM/MIL-STD-188-141B.pdf starting on page 178, it really lends itself to the PCSDM and its works fantastic, I love GTOR, more so than PACTOR I since the day I bought my first KAM Plus (I like my KAM XL a bit better though)

Re: [digitalradio] Is Ham Radio Only for Random Communications?

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Bill, I just want to make one observation regarding the Amateur Radio Service (ARS) from a strictly U.S. Amateur perspective as you to are U.S. based. That observation is with respect to FCC Part 97.1 below, in the order of priority listed, I pretty much think it sums it all up pretty

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Open 5066 for HF-based Digital Email, Emergency Data

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Hajducek
, the following U.S. Military Joint Services document is a good read on all this: http://www.navymars.org/national/ale/FM%206-02.74_1.PDF /s/ Steve, N2CKH/AAR2EY 73, Rick, KV9U Steve Hajducek wrote: Hi Rick, Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas

re: KATRINA and ALE - Re: [digitalradio] Re: Open 5066 for HF-based Digital Email, Emergency Data

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, I wanted to make this a separate message for some reading regarding ALE and Katrina, I do not know all the details of ALE use by all the agencies involved, many just take it for granted actually, below is an item to read related to the subject of ALE and Katrina that I have made

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Is Ham Radio Only for Random Communications?

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Hajducek
claim that one activity is more important than another solely because its applicable principle has a lower ordinal. This is not a matter of interpretation. Regulations are explicit when they convey an order of priority. 73, Dave, AA6YQ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hajducek

Re: [digitalradio] ALE Keyboarding QSOs

2006-08-26 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Mark, Welcome to the world of ALE acty. DBM is the killer 8FSK protocol from the standard. Its raw speed is 125 baud but deeply interleaved which has it neck and neck with its kissing cousin GTOR for throughput. The BRD (FEC) selection is very robust and the ARQ is just great. It supports

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Open 5066 for HF-based Digital Email, Emergency Data

2006-08-26 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, I just had to take a break from the .NET C++ compiler to reply to this one, day job work and other demands have slow my responses the past few days, although I will try to reply some of the other messages flying about if I can make the time At 12:40 PM 8/26/2006, you

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Open 5066 for HF-based Digital Email, Emergency Data

2006-08-26 Thread Steve Hajducek
At 11:26 AM 8/26/2006, you wrote: --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hajducek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The ALE antenna issue is a major one for either portable or fixed though. How's that? I have a NVIS antenna that above that range starts to look like a random wire with gain

Re: [digitalradio] Re: The Internet is Unreliable for Amateur Radio Service Emergency Communications

2006-08-25 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hello All, Argue it as you may, the Internet is unreliable on many levels to due normal loading at those levels and vulnerable to targeted attacks, it is well documented, for the latest visit: http://www.cert.org/ It is targeted daily and will be the target in any major conflicts, its just

Re: [digitalradio] Re: PC-ALE Signal Detect Before Transmitting: An Experiment

2006-08-23 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Dave, At 01:59 PM 8/23/2006, you wrote: Re: The technical world, and especially amateur radio should rise above that in concerted efforts to accomplish desired common goals. Amend to that ! A prerequisite for concerted action is to clearly state the goal, and to have that goal make sense.

[digitalradio] re: The Internet is Unreliable for Amateur Radio Service Emergency Communications

2006-08-23 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Dave, You go it. /s/ Steve, N2CKH At 01:17 PM 8/23/2006, you wrote: Oh, I see, Steve. You believe that the internet is insufficiently reliable Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector :

Re: [digitalradio] Re: PC-ALE and CAT Control

2006-08-21 Thread Steve Hajducek
in use. Otherwise, its entirely incompatible with amateur radio. 73, Dave, AA6YQ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hajducek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave, As fine a product as DXLab, HRD or anything else may be for casual Amateur Radio CAT Rig control, nothing

Re: ALE and Amateur Radio - Re: [digitalradio] ALE On-The-Air Week (13-23 Oct) HF Automatic Link Establishment

2006-08-21 Thread Steve Hajducek
that the PC-ALE application crashes seems like reasonable feedback. Labeling this feedback as a complaint is not the way to encourage more feedback and the improvements it can drive. 73, Dave, AA6YQ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hajducek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: ALE and Amateur Radio - Re: [digitalradio] ALE On-The-Air Week (13-23 Oct) HF Automatic Link Establishment

2006-08-21 Thread Steve Hajducek
and welcomed assistance? Putting a logic analyzer on his PC's microprocessor and sending you a an execution trace? 73, Dave, AA6YQ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hajducek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave, I did not get from Rick at that point that he was looking for any

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