[digitalradio] Re: A new concept in digital mode band plans- reducing the number of tongues in the tower of Babylon

2010-03-24 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I think it's fair to discuss, which is to say question, whether military standard ALE is the best thing to use on amateur frequencies. It's good to make use of existing standards when they fit the situation, but military radio is not amateur radio. With our crowded bands, and with amateur radios

[digitalradio] Re: New subject: FSK clicks

2010-02-28 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Wes Linscott w1...@... wrote: The EPC PSK125 contest was in operation. Is that possibly what you were seeing/hearing? Wes W1LIC Well if PSK125 signals are clicky then that's just as bad as if it's FSK. However I was able to copy one or two of the

[digitalradio] New subject: FSK clicks

2010-02-27 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I was just listening on 80M - some kind of RTTY contest is on - and I hear a bunch of normal-sounding FSK RTTY signals, and some that are awfully clicky, like key clicks except it's FSK. I wonder what those guys are doing wrong. Having the speech processor turned on, perhaps? Or too-rapid

[digitalradio] Re: GTOR- has anyone tried this?

2010-02-23 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I think I have it working, but haven't heard any signals or tried to contact anyone yet. What works is that if I punch CONNECT the transmitter gets keyed and I can hear signal bursts going out on the sidetone. And I guess I am receiving audio because I'm getting a bunch of garbage on the screen

[digitalradio] Gtor

2010-02-23 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I guess I'm hearing a Gtor QSO right now, because every now and then I get a screen message DATA: comp=Huffman, block=1 and that sort of thing. but I also get CONNECT (greek) TO (greek) and DISCONNECT (greek) FROM (greek) never have seen any intelligible text. This is on 3585.5 KHz and has

[digitalradio] Re: ROS Advantage- mode ranking

2010-02-22 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dave Ackrill dave.g0...@... wrote: Otherwise why so much RTTY on the bands? Even AX:25 is getting a bit long in the tooth now, but people still struggle on with it... My belief is that all the RTTY is largely from contesting and DX chasing. Those two

[digitalradio] Re: ROS Advantage- mode ranking

2010-02-22 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Alan Barrow ml9...@... wrote: I've also observed a significant power mindset with many RTTY ops. Bigger is better. This pretty much comes with the territory. I've been in RTTY since the late 1950s, and I just remembered recently that back then we all

[digitalradio] Re: Something to consider about external automatic antenna tuners

2010-02-22 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dave 'Doc' Corio dco...@... wrote: However, there is one thing the tuner will NOT do. It will not remember any band or frequency, until the transmitter is keyed. Well, sure. The only thing going from the radio to the tuner is the antenna cable, so

[digitalradio] Re: GTOR- has anyone tried this?

2010-02-22 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, sholtofish sho...@... wrote: I tried some connects with Andy and Skip and can confirm the sound card version of G-TOR works with a real G-TOR modem (my KAM-XL). Throughput got up to 200 baud and of course no errors due to the ARQ. The GUI is basic

[digitalradio] Re: Curious sound card modes question -

2010-02-22 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, John ke5h...@... wrote: Thanks Skip, Unfortunately, this really does not get to the crux of my question(s). I understand how an SSB transmitter works, but that is not really what I am after. What I am driving at is if like this. If I use DM780 to

[digitalradio] Re: ROS Advantage- mode ranking

2010-02-22 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, John Becker, WØJAB w0...@... wrote: Not really Jim I for one never stopped using the old machines. Therefore never had to bring em back out. It's the only way I do RTTY here. John, W0JAB Cool! I have a lot of TTY machinery out in my baudy house but

[digitalradio] Re: ROS, legal in USA?

2010-02-21 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, KH6TY kh...@... wrote: I agree Dave, and Chip64 was abandoned over here on the same basis! I remember trying Chip64 without worrying about whether it was legal. I got the impression it was abandoned just because it didn't work very well compared to some

[digitalradio] Re: ROS, legal in USA?

2010-02-21 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, n9dsj n9...@... wrote: Hi Jim, Actually CHIP worked ok, especially on the low bands. The Virginia NTS net used this and still may. Worked OK, but I didn't think it worked as well as or better than other modes that were more popular. Jim W6JVE

[digitalradio] Re: Digital modes band plans.

2010-02-20 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, bruce mallon wa4...@... wrote: I remember several spredsprectum people commenting that they didn't care if they obliterated legacy modes.   They didn't happen to be in the BPL networking business, did they?

[digitalradio] Something to test

2010-02-20 Thread jhaynesatalumni
It would be interesting to try to find out how much ROS interferes with other modes when it operates on top of them. That is, if you had a RTTY or PSK or Olivia or some other kind of QSO going, and a ROS signal started up in overlapping bandwidth, does the ROS signal tear up the other-mode QSO, or

[digitalradio] Re: RTTY and mode selection on radios

2010-02-19 Thread jhaynesatalumni
If the radio has RTTY as a mode, as does the TS-940 for example, it means (1) there is an input on the back where you put in a baseband signal and FSK comes out the antenna, and (2) for receiving it will use a narrow filter and center the filter up around 2.2 KHz. (By baseband I mean the actualy

[digitalradio] Re: RTTY and mode selection on radios

2010-02-19 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, John Becker, WØJAB w0...@... wrote: RTTY should be used in the LSB mode regardless of the band. Well thats when you aren't using the FSK mode for RTTY; the FSK mode does put it into LSB. I don't use software for RTTY so I cant tell you a thing about

[digitalradio] Buglet in ROS

2010-02-19 Thread jhaynesatalumni
A minor but annoying problem I'm having is that in Windows XP it keeps maximizing the window without being told to. I haven't found for sure what triggers it, but just now I am monitoring and a ROS signal came on and a second or two after the initial tone the window maximized itself. Yup, just

[digitalradio] Re: Comparison of RTTY software sensitivity

2010-01-22 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Vojtech bubn...@... wrote: Both yours and Alex's graphs show superiority of TrueRTTY and MixW. I wonder whether TrueRTTY is doing synchronous detection. This is what I plan to try when I retire, hi. There used to be the K6STI RITTY program which

[digitalradio] Re: Comparison of RTTY software sensitivity

2010-01-22 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Now I don't know about TrueTTY, but MMTTY has a number of things you can play with in terms of the filtering and detection, so I wonder if we could get some comparisons of those - or at least tell us what the setup was when it was tested. Jim W6JVE

[digitalradio] Mystery signal on 75M

2010-01-11 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I was listening on the top end of 75M this afternoon about 4PM CST and heard a strange wideband signal, sounded a little bit like rushing wind. Brought up a digital waterfall and found that it extended from 3990.15 to 3997.85. The waterfall display was rather blotchy, suggesting some internal

[digitalradio] Re: CSS to release The PK-232 25th Anniversary Software CD

2010-01-09 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Mark Thompson wb9qzb_gro...@... wrote: CSS to release The PK-232 25th Anniversary Software CD A pre-order price of $139.95 is available at the CSS online store at http://www.cssincorp.com. What a deal! Just the thing to run on your 8088 PC.

[digitalradio] Re: Dxing and long winded digital ops

2009-12-27 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I would love to have rag chews with DX stations, but in fact I just about never answer CQs from DX stations because they seem to automatically assume that I'm only interested in bagging a DX QSO for DXCC or something and they terminate the contact right away. Jim W6JVE

[digitalradio] Re: what's the latest on WINMOR

2009-12-21 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, aa777888athotmaildotcom aa777...@... wrote: Just send to your Winlink account. That would be your calls...@... However note carefully the spam control features that are in effect at http://www.winlink.org/help. You may need to add //WL2K to your

[digitalradio] Re: what's the latest on WINMOR

2009-12-20 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, aa777888athotmaildotcom aa777...@... wrote: There are now 4 beta RMS server stations on the air. I've transferred mail to/from the real world through one of them. I've sent mail from radio to Internet through a couple of them. What do you have to do to

[digitalradio] Which is a better rig for digital work?

2009-12-13 Thread jhaynesatalumni
FT-1000MP or TS-850S with DSP-100? Jim W6JVE

[digitalradio] Re: 7036kHz Digital ops

2009-11-28 Thread jhaynesatalumni
But it's not ARRL vs. IARU in this case; it's FCC versus the rest of the world. 7070 is not in a phone band in the U.S., but is in some other countries. If it were in a phone band in the U.S. then U.S. hams would not be able to operate digital modes there.

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

2009-11-27 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I've never known if there is a standard for whether tip or ring is left or right channel. And is left or right normally used for the computer DSP radio software?

[digitalradio] Re: Mail/File Tranfers on HF: Some Reflections on Winmor, PSKMAIL, FIdigi, and ALE.

2009-10-13 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Thanks for the fine review. It seems like the main thing WINMOR wants to add is the ability to switch the data rate on its own, going faster when conditions are good and slowing down when they are bad. This is something Clover tried to do, but apparently was imperfectly implemented and hasn't

[digitalradio] How does one get started with pskmail?

2009-10-07 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Is there a document?

[digitalradio] Why so much interest in WINMOR?

2009-10-01 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Seems like people are falling all over one another to participate in WINMOR testing, yet we have other ARQ schemes that aren't getting exercised at all. I don't understand it. Jim W6JVE

[digitalradio] Re: An open letter: W1AW and 80m psk31 interference

2009-09-24 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rik van Riel r...@... wrote: In my opinion, the why isn't nearly as important as the fact that we have a problem on the band nowadays. The fixed frequency psk kits have been built and cannot easily be changed to another frequency. Easily changed by

[digitalradio] Re: An open letter: W1AW and 80m psk31 interference(A dissent)

2009-09-23 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Maybe I haven't been paying attention, but what is it that makes 3580 a sacred gathering place for PSK? Why isn't it 070 like it is on some other bands? Why can't we just QSY to get away from W1AW?

[digitalradio] Re: Best Software

2009-09-02 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, vrygood10 vrygoo...@... wrote: Hello All, Is there any software out there that will identify and display all hf digital signals.. I can identify some of the signals but there are many I can not.. Norman If you're talking about amateur signals, then the

[digitalradio] Re: QRV ALE-400 ARQ chat mode -- 14074.0

2009-07-03 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick W mrf...@... wrote: It seems that there are only a handful of hams who have any interest in ARQ modes for chatting. I guess I'm one of that handful, but right now I'm working my way back from some lightning damage that killed two computers, among

[digitalradio] Re: WTD a baudot to ASCII / ASCII to Baudot terminal program for PC not sound card

2009-06-30 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Google for rtty12git's in BASIC and comes with the source.

[digitalradio] Re: Spotted on Usenet: running HRD under Linux with Wine

2009-06-24 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, David djm...@... wrote: Hi Mike. Trouble is, I'm not Mike - I just cut and pasted Mike's message from the other group. So we need other resources to learn how he did it.

[digitalradio] Spotted on Usenet: running HRD under Linux with Wine

2009-06-23 Thread jhaynesatalumni
From: m II c...@in.the.hat Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave Subject: Ham Radio Deluxe on Linux It took a while to get it working right. there was a lot of fiddling with the 'Wine' setup. http://encyclopaedia-galactica.org/screenshot.png This thing has enough bells and whistles to last a lon,

[digitalradio] Re: New version of Mixw

2009-06-15 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, chas ch...@... wrote: Rick W wrote: What is the attraction of MixW now that we have so many other multimode digital programs that are freely available with one program even open source and cross platform? 73, Rick, KV9U Rick, nearly all

[digitalradio] Re: backup

2009-06-11 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Simon \(HB9DRV\) simon.br...@... wrote: FWIW with the exception of laptops I always run RAID 1 (mirror). I've had disks die but never lost data as a result in far too many years of coding. Note that RAID is protection against a disk failure, but not

[digitalradio] Re: Olivia

2009-05-02 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Siegfried Jackstien siegfried.jackst...@... wrote: i like the ida of automatic changing of the modes . would act as pactor 123 . But the reason Pactor can do that is that the sending station is constantly getting acknowledgment packets that tell

[digitalradio] Re: Olivia

2009-04-30 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Simon \(HB9DRV\) simon.br...@... wrote: Would not WINMOR be an option here? Well, except that WINMOR seems to be single-mindedly a message passing mode. I wish there was some layering so that the modulation means and the error correcting means and the

[digitalradio] Another what is this mode question

2009-03-31 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I was listening to some stuff last night on 40M, and it was clearly 500 Hz wide and about 16 discrete tones, but it was not Olivia and I couldn't find anything else that would decode it either. Tried Contestia and RTTYM and various settings of Thor and DominoEX. The signals looked and sounded a

[digitalradio] Re: Another what is this mode question

2009-03-31 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Mike Blazek mbla...@... wrote: Hi, Jim: Might have been MFSK16? Mike N5UKZ Nope, MFSK16 is much narrower than 500 Hz. And I tried MFSK32 with no results.

[digitalradio] Re: Another what is this mode question

2009-03-31 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Andy obrien k3uka...@... wrote: What frequency was this mode? Oh, about 7073. There was an Olivia signal nearby, which made it easy to see that the displays were different. Olivia looks more random, like snowfall, whereas this signal seemed to have a

[digitalradio] Re: popular software

2009-03-31 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, ww6aa ww...@... wrote: i am new to dig.radio and apologize for asking a question that i am sure has been answered many times, but search came up with 1000 replies. What software seems to be most popular @ this time You mean today? Or last week?

[digitalradio] Re: Bandwidth v Shift in RTTY ?

2009-03-26 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, expeditionradio expeditionra...@... wrote: Hi Andy, There is no simple universal relationship between the shift and the transmitted signal bandwidth, However, for the particular case of binary FSK where the shift is wide compared to the bit rate, you

[digitalradio] No FCC data bandwidth limit on HF Re: USA ham rules

2009-03-26 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dave AA6YQ aa...@... wrote: Thanks. To repeat my first question, What's the bandwidth of an FSK signal whose shift is 1 kHz and whose symbol rate is limited to a maximum of 300 baud? Feel free to parametize as necessary. Using the approximation I just

[digitalradio] Re: ALE musings

2009-03-04 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Rats! I just hit the wrong key and sent an unintended message. Wish I could delete it. And before that I had written a lengthy comment which Yahoo seems to have lost. So I'll try again. Seems like there are several aspects to ALE One is the notion of going through a list of frequencies in

[digitalradio] Re: Some More Thoughts On WINMOR and Winlink

2009-03-03 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Andrew O'Brien k3uka...@... wrote: I assume that many people know already, but just in case there are some that do not, WINMOR will not be a digital mode that your can use for keyboard chats or QSOs, it is intended to allow you to connect to a HF Radio

[digitalradio] Re: Some More Thoughts On WINMOR and Winlink

2009-03-03 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I have a friend who years ago twisted my arm to get me into Clover. Back then the original Clover modem, the PCI-4000 was arguably more costly than the SCS modems in constant dollars. We used to keep skeds and use it conversationally - he seemed to really enjoy the quasi-full-duplex operation

[digitalradio] Re: on another note

2009-02-26 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, W5XR w...@... wrote: I'm asking. :) Bob, W5XR. O.K. For START-STOP synchronization to work the receiving shaft (selector or distributor) has to stop between characters. The Morkrum Co. (ancestor of Teletype Corp.) had the sending and receiving

[digitalradio] Re: on another note

2009-02-25 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Vojtech Bubnik bubn...@... wrote: Patrick, I have a proposal for one low hanging fruit project. How about to receive RTTY in a synchronous way? I believe most SW really generate precise synchronous RTTY, where the only variable is the unknown stop bit

[digitalradio] Re: on another note

2009-02-25 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Lindecker f6...@... wrote: A synchronous RTTY under Windows is possible with a standard symbol synchronization (with or without a PLL which can be seen as the digital flywheel). However, the stop bit (1.5 symbols) complicates all as it is not

[digitalradio] Re: Harmonic of some Sort on 20mtrs, includes a Computer Power Supply Interference Issue.

2009-02-24 Thread jhaynesatalumni
It can be awfully helpful at times to have a portable battery powered shortwave receiver so you can listen to the interference while you are walking around, and with all your AC power shut off.

[digitalradio] Re: on another note

2009-02-23 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rud Merriam k5...@... wrote: First, I would not dismiss sound card modes. I think there is much more that can be done with them. One of the main issues IMO is that they don't (1) adapt to changing band conditions, and (2) don't utilize FEC as much as is

[digitalradio] Re: on another note

2009-02-23 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Something I forgot to mention earlier in suggesting a Pentium with sound card might be usable as a dedicated DSP engine - the K6STI software absolutely required an ISA SoundBlaster. If we want to define a new DSP engine we need some higher level of abstraction to be able to cope with hardware

[digitalradio] Re: Recent MFSK16 DX

2009-02-17 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Graham g0...@... wrote: but with the stability of modern rigs I dont see why the original mfsk should not make a come back ? The only time I had trouble with MFSK16 and frequency drift was when I was using the Elecraft K-2 radio with its 100W amplifier,

[digitalradio] Re: Comparison of Performance of Digital Modulation in the Presence of adjacent QRM

2009-02-17 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Andrew O'Brien k3uka...@... wrote: FYI, anyone have the full articel ? Andy Comparison of Performance of Digital Modulation Techniques in the Presence of Adjacent Channel Interference Milstein, L. Pickholtz, R. Schilling, D. Univ. of California

[digitalradio] Re: HF packet

2009-02-05 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Mark Milburn markk...@... wrote: Yes, there are a LOT of repeats when the bands are poor. Signal strength is not the only criteria. I don't have a technical background to explain it or even understand it, but there are plenty of days when a signal of S7

[digitalradio] Re: Digitalradio on Facebook

2009-01-23 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Briggs Longbothum bru...@... wrote: Andy, I'm not convinced at all that this is a good idea. I hate to sound naggish and I do applaud you efforts with the good of the group in mind, but I've had a raft of bad experiences I agree - one of my old

[digitalradio] Re: FlDigi version 3.10 need some help

2009-01-21 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Russell Blair russell_blai...@... wrote: I down loaded and installed ver.3.10 and for the life me I cant get to work the (Compute 2.5Ghz,1.5gig of ram windows XP Pro SP3) SB soundcard. I cant get the program to show any audio, even thou the program shows my

[digitalradio] New fldigi 3.10

2009-01-17 Thread jhaynesatalumni
The latest fldigi 3.10 is now available on the w1hkj.com web site.

[digitalradio] Re: Information Please re Reading the Radio for Digital Modes

2009-01-17 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Gmail - Kevin, Natalia, Stacey Rochelle spar...@... wrote: DM780 through the sound card to Kenwood TS-480S/AT, in the data socket. When I start DM780 and look at the screen, waterfall I see the data mode, in this case PSK31 on 14.081.5, but the radio is

[digitalradio] Re: No audio from soundcard

2008-12-23 Thread jhaynesatalumni
This may seem too obvious, but get a pair of earphones and some clip leads if necessary and see if you are getting audio out of the cable that plugs into the radio. That tells you whether the trouble is in the computer, like something to do with the volume controls, or in the radio like the

[digitalradio] Re: Sunair RT 9000A Help

2008-12-12 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Ed hucklebe...@... wrote: I wasn't trying to flame you, but I do think you might get a better response on manual_excha...@yahoogroups.com . Or armyradios group, or perhaps hflink, which is for ALE-capable radios, if it is that kind of radio.

[digitalradio] Re: ASCII ?

2008-10-21 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Related to the earlier question about amateur radio ASCII, there was also the occasion when the 60wpm limit was lifted and 100 wpm Baudot was allowed. This too never became popular because only the guys who had Model 28 machines could use it, and because the shorter bit length (13 ms. versus 22

[digitalradio] Re: QRV MT63 14106

2008-10-03 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I think it would be more useful if you would announce your plans to be operating well in advance of the time you start up. I tend to read the group once a day, usually in the morning, so what I learn from your message is what I could have been doing last night, if I had not been busy with other

[digitalradio] Re: ASCII ?

2008-10-02 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Jose A. Amador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but there was a GM - Microsoft controversy that ended with a caustic reply from the GM's President that explained it too well. That's interesting, because I think it was GM that is generally credited with inventing

[digitalradio] Re: ASCII ?

2008-10-01 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I guess some people thought it was a Big Deal, but there were lots of reasons why it didn't go anywhere. I'd say the overriding one is that with 60 wpm Baudot RTTY the bit length is 22 milliseconds. With 100 wpm ASCII 110 baud the bit length is 9 milliseconds. That means 2.4 times the

[digitalradio] Re: RTTY newcomer looking for some information

2008-09-22 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, John Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple of books on RTTY dating back to the 1960's. They talk about using TU's that can decode with only the mark or only the space signal. This seems pretty straightforward, since the mark and space

[digitalradio] Re: Emcomms : NBEMS v.ALE: Score one for ALE.

2008-08-31 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I gave up on NBEMS after several hours of 20/40M beaconing. It is a great application but heard NO one today. ALE on the other hand proved quite active and the http://hflink.net/qso link made it easy to see how I

[digitalradio] Fedora 9

2008-08-13 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I noticed last night that just added to or updated in Fedora 9 Linux are xdemorse, xpsk31, and xlog.

[digitalradio] AMTOR

2008-08-11 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I was just thinking as a purely whimsical thing, wonder if it would be hard to use AMTOR as the communication link and use Real Teletype machines for the keyboard and printer, 5-unit code and all. What got me to thinking of this was that RCA used to have a service based on their ARQ system, which

[digitalradio] Re: MFSK31 QSO's wanted

2008-07-26 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Howard Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I worked Tony K2MO last night on 20 meters using MFSK31 and MMVARI. This mode seems very robust. It worked through deep fading and some horrible noise very well. Also, it is quite a bit faster than I worked him too,

[digitalradio] Re: Open wire feed line length

2008-07-02 Thread jhaynesatalumni
100 feet of ladder line is sort of a magic number for being easily tunable on all the bands. One of my friends bought a ready-made 80M dipole with 100 feet of ladder line and a tuner; and the instructions were not to cut much if any off the ladder line. I learned the reason for that later when I

[digitalradio] Re: K2 Elecraft

2008-05-30 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Yves Dussault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use my K2 on digital modes. Any suggestions? Nothing very specific...I've used a K2 on digital modes. Depending on how old yours is, there is a modification that makes the VFO more temperature stable, which

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

2008-04-21 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dave Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't believe that PSK31, PSK63, or RTTY are the best that can be done on HF-- but no protocol attractive enough to displace them has yet been developed. I think, too, that each has its place. RTTY was once

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

2008-04-21 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dave AA6YQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In seeking to displace PSK31 with a better alternative, a good place to start is to consider PSK31's weaknesses: A. no error detection/correction B. simplex C. can't convey files (messages, pictures, documents,

[digitalradio] Re: Vista

2008-03-26 Thread jhaynesatalumni
We conspiracy theorists can always believe that Microsoft deliberately made Vista so bad so that there will be lots of buyers for the next version of Windows. Gotta keep the revenue stream flowing.

[digitalradio] Re: RFI-Free PCs?

2008-03-26 Thread jhaynesatalumni
You mentioned Class B for industrial applications. Is the intent of Class B to hold down the amount of RFI coming out of the computer and bothering other things? Or is it more to prevent strong RFI in the environment from screwing up the computer? I guess for ham radio we are concerned with both

[digitalradio] Re: RFI-Free PCs?

2008-03-22 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I agree on building your own PC. I built one using a cheapie case and power supply and it was pretty quiet. So I ordered another case and power supply, same catalog number from the same supplier, and what came was a bit different. The power supply was the worst broad-band noise generator I have

[digitalradio] Re: FDMDV below 10MHz: LSB or USB?

2008-02-19 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Ian Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We all know that we should use LSB for analog voice below 10MHz, but what is the consensus for FDMDV and other digital voice modes below 10MHz: LSB or USB? I don't use FDMDV, but for the keyboard digital modes, after a

[digitalradio] Re: Operating FSK RTTY in a contest ?

2008-02-12 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Robert Chudek - K0RC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I started my RTTY career using 2125 and 2975 tones... Same here, and with a pre-WW-II Super Pro receiver that would have drifted right out the window if it had not been screwed down. And a transmitter of the

[digitalradio] Re: New ARRL HF Digital Handbook - Fourth Edition (Available October 2007)

2008-02-11 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, tremont245 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, AE9K AE9K@ wrote: Hi Dan Go for the Digital Modes For Occassions by ZL1BPU, I have just received this book and can't put it down. I have the other book as well, which I feel is

[digitalradio] Re: Robust Packet-Radio (RPR)

2008-01-11 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy, What I don't understand is if you already have a suite of modes, Pactor, Pactor 2, and Pactor 3, then why create another mode like they did? This is not compatible with existing packet, right? So you would have to

[digitalradio] Re: Help files in vbdigi

2008-01-10 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, kh6ty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VBdigi is looking for the following files in D:\Program Files\NBEMS directory: emailsetup.rtf flarq.rtf logbook.rtf messaging.rtf vbdigi.rtf vbdigisetup.rtf Do a search for flarq.rtf and tell me where it is

[digitalradio] Re: Help files in vbdigi

2008-01-10 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, kh6ty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please try creating a folder, C:\Program Files\NBEMS, copying the files there, and see if VBdigi finds those. No, it did not find them there either.

[digitalradio] Re: Mode identification

2008-01-06 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Bill McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One I had trouble with the other day, was Clover, but had not heard it in so long I had forgotten what it sounded like. You heard a Clover signal?! What kind of time machine do you have there? Heard any spark

[digitalradio] NBEMS setup

2008-01-02 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I'm trying to follow the instructions in VBdigi under Help-Radio email setup. I navigate to C:\NBEMS\Mail I put the mouse pointer on the ARQout folder and hold down the right mouse button and try to drag it to the menu bar at the bottom of the screen, and I get the slashed-circle not symbol.

[digitalradio] Re: 30 Meter digital

2007-12-22 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, kh6ty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my belief that if voice of the same bandwidth were allowed everwhere data is allowed, the data segments of the bands would be overrun with phone stations using DV. We could, for the sake of argument, use that

[digitalradio] Re: Winlink Can Be Reliable in Emergencies

2007-12-14 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Sholto Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can also clog up our bands. For instance I am monitoring a Pactor 2 transmission on 30m that has been on going for around 25 minutes so far and the latest email to go through is titled: FW: Please read til

[digitalradio] Re: Testing fldigi and flarq

2007-12-10 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Charles Brabham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried it out, but had trouble with the audio not driving the waterfall display sufficiently to function. You have to fiddle with a couple of numbers at the bottom of the window. Just to the left of the QSY

[digitalradio] Re: Hearing impaired hams

2007-12-01 Thread jhaynesatalumni
This seems like a good time to mention the late Bob Weitbrecht, W6NRM. He was for all practical purposes totally deaf, but was able to copy CW. I never knew if he had just enough hearing at one frequency to hear the tone or if he felt the vibrations on the headphones on his head. Anyway, at an

[digitalradio] Unknown signal ID ?

2007-11-30 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Around 2045Z Friday the 30th Freq. 14076+1750 Mostly a steady tone, with several clicks per second, the clicks being probably PSK transitions.

[digitalradio] PSKmail (was Re: VHF digital setup)

2007-11-09 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, vk2eta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the wiki page below. Follow the download link on the left. You will get access to two download mirrors. They include the source and installation instructions as well if you already have linux running. OK, the

[digitalradio] PSKmail (was Re: VHF digital setup)

2007-11-08 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rein Couperus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need pskmail version 0.5.4 to enjoy PSK250 arq. http://pa0r.blogspirit.com Where do you get this version if you just want the sources for Linux, rather than Puppy or Windows? I googled for it and got one page with

[digitalradio] Re: CQ DRCC...

2007-10-26 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that I have mentioned some of this before, but unless you have a club of some kind where interested hams join and buy in to a concept, a numbering system may not be something that many will gravitate toward. I'll

[digitalradio] Re: DM780 Reviews

2007-09-22 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Why do you tell us where to get it?

[digitalradio] Re: So there I was -

2007-09-15 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are very correct that Clover II was not a very good mode, especially considering the price, since it was only a bit faster than Pactor I and perhaps similar in ability to operate in weak signals. Yet I have one friend

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