RE: [digitalradio] Understanding soundcard basics ?

2009-09-22 Thread r_lwesterfield
Hello Andy, There was a very good article in QST a few years ago about sound cards. They ran five different cards through quite a battery of tests in the ARRL Lab and yes indeed, you really do get better performance out of some cards. But dollar for dollar, the performance was not linear.

[digitalradio] Anybody On Tonight?

2009-09-15 Thread r_lwesterfield
Where is everybody hanging out? Rick - KH2DF/W5

RE: [digitalradio] Need help with PSK-31 and my antenna tuner

2009-07-15 Thread r_lwesterfield
Hello Doug, It sounds like you have quite a bit of RF in the shack. I have D-Star here with no problems on an Icom 91AD. Do you do a lot of transmitting into non-resonant antennae? Do your radios still lock up when transmitting into an antenna that is closer to being resonant?

RE: [digitalradio] QRV ALE-400 this evening

2009-06-11 Thread r_lwesterfield
Yes, thank you very much. Rick – KH2DF/W5 _ From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tony Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:21 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] QRV ALE-400 this evening Thank you

RE: [digitalradio] KH2DF I saw you

2009-06-11 Thread r_lwesterfield
Hello Fred, I did not know it but I had accidently stepped on an Olivia QSO already in progress just below .074. I thought that I should quit at that point but I did hear some FAE activity a few minutes later. I should have responded but I had already gotten sidetracked getting a

RE: [digitalradio] Copy You K2Mo

2009-06-10 Thread r_lwesterfield
I copied both of you very well here in northwest Louisiana. My trouble was figuring out the buttons for the mode. I rarely do anything other than Olivia, Hellschreiber, MFSK etc which makes me very unfamiliar with ALE FAE 400. Ditto for MultiPSK. Tony - do you think it did not like my

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

2009-05-28 Thread r_lwesterfield
My Icom 746 suffers the same problem. I had hoped that the Elecraft K3 that I had in mind would solve this issue for me as well but maybe not. The review in QST was the best they ever gave but maybe I hope for too much. Rick - KH2DF _ From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com

RE: [digitalradio] 14074. MHZ - What Is That?

2009-05-28 Thread r_lwesterfield
Ahh . . . thanks Andy. ALE 400. It has been a while since I heard it. Rick - KH2DF/W5 _ From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of r_lwesterfi...@bellsouth.net Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:33 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Unfamiliar mode...

2009-02-01 Thread r_lwesterfield
WAS anyone for PSK 125? Some in the contest yesterday are shooting for that as a goal. Rick - KH2DF/W5 _ From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Blazek Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 12:53 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com

RE: [digitalradio] QRV MT63 - 14106.0 USB

2008-10-04 Thread r_lwesterfield
Message - From: r_lwesterfield r_lwesterfield@ mailto:r_lwesterfield%40bellsouth.net bellsouth.net To: digitalradio@ mailto:digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 7:03 PM Subject: RE: [digitalradio] QRV MT63 - 14106.0 USB Beautiful signal here

RE: [digitalradio] QRV MT63 - 14106.0 USB

2008-10-03 Thread r_lwesterfield
Beautiful signal here in Louisiana . . . no clue to how to tune it on DM 780 Rick _ From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew O'Brien Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 5:57 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] QRV MT63

RE: [digitalradio] Speaker Monitor Selection on Windows XP VolumeControl

2008-08-12 Thread r_lwesterfield
Hello, I finally remembered what I did – kind of a déjà vu amnesia thing – I remember that I have forgotten this before. On the Windows volume control “Properties” for the “Playback” mixer control, there is an “input monitor” selection that is often not turned on with new

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

2008-07-05 Thread r_lwesterfield
You have must go to the MixW web site and download the DLL files for those two modes. Very easy installation. Rick - KH2DF _ From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Lindecker Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 3:49 AM To:

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

2008-01-05 Thread r_lwesterfield
Hello, The ARRL also sells a very nice book about Digital Signal Processing although at $45 it is a little expensive. I am just getting started reading it but if you want to know how all of this stuff we are doing in digital HF really works, this would be the book to read. Rick -

RE: [digitalradio] Sound card install problem

2007-11-20 Thread r_lwesterfield
is... if you have the pack already on your HD, how do you take care of the install when prompted to insert the CD with the service pack on it ? Andy. On Nov 19, 2007 10:40 PM, r_lwesterfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you turn Automatic Updates on, it should load in less than a day

RE: [digitalradio] Sound card install problem

2007-11-19 Thread r_lwesterfield
If you turn Automatic Updates on, it should load in less than a day or so of leaving your computer on. Or you could go to Microsoft Update and let it install from there. After that, I would go to the sound card web site and download the latest driver . . . should work. Rick - KH2DF

RE: [digitalradio] Re: digital voice within 100 Hz bandwidth

2007-11-17 Thread r_lwesterfield
I have a few radios (ARC-210-1851, PSC-5D, PRC-117F) at work that operate in MELP for a vocoder – Mixed Excitation Linear Prediction. We have found MELP to be superior (more human-like voice qualities – less Charlie Brown’s teacher) to LPC-10 but we use far larger bandwidths than 100 khz. I do

RE: [digitalradio] Digitalradio SKED/ spotting page

2007-11-04 Thread r_lwesterfield
Hello Andy, This web page is a very good tool but when I hit reload/refresh (me -reload - I use Firefox), it resends everything and the whole world gets to enjoy my screwup. How do I refresh my screen without this error on my part? Rick - KH2DF/W5 _ From:

RE: [digitalradio] Pactor and Seasonally Affected Disorder (SAD)

2007-10-17 Thread r_lwesterfield
This is excellent . . . just what this group needs . . . and I deeply and truly mean that . . .sheesh . . . Rick - KH2DF _ From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Bradley Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:41 PM To:

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

2007-06-20 Thread r_lwesterfield
My Rockwell ARC-190 v8 HF radio and a Rockwell Q9600 modem at the office into the SCOPE Command network works very well for e-mail INTERNET access but I do have access to 3khz wide channels. This is military hardware (spelled expensive!!) but it does work and I have seen 8 kbps out of a

Re: [digitalradio] re:DSB, ISB, SSB, AMSC, LSB, USB, I/Q

2007-02-01 Thread r_lwesterfield
Rockwells's military ARC-230 radio uses ISB to enable at least a theoretically possible 19.2kb per second with ALE through SCOPE Command -9600 kbps per sideband. O f course, they do not ever achieve that rate given today's sunspot situation but it is at least a laboratory possibility. The

RE: [digitalradio] Problems Keying With WIN DRM and Icom 746

2007-01-19 Thread r_lwesterfield
keying for the 2 meter band. One solution is to use CAT control for transmit and receive with the built-in CI-V interface On 1/3/07, r_lwesterfield r_lwesterfield@ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] bellsouth.net wrote: Hello Andy, The WIN DRM program seems to run and I have downloaded

[digitalradio] Problems Keying With WIN DRM and Icom 746

2007-01-03 Thread r_lwesterfield
], r_lwesterfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I did this as well but I cannot get the rig to key. I am using Comm 3 which is what MixW uses with ease and I have tried every conceivable PTT checkbox combination under SETUP. What am I missing??? Rick, WinDRM just requires one PPT port, that's

RE: [digitalradio] new to ham radio

2006-10-05 Thread r_lwesterfield
Hello George, Welcome to the hobby/sport. If you have HF privileges, try MixW for digital mode things. It is an easy to use program that runs well on my older PII machines with Windows 2000 and only 128 MB of RAM. You should be able too Google it for download. It covers most of the

RE: [digitalradio] Anyone using a Cushcraft R5/ R7 on digital ?

2006-04-30 Thread r_lwesterfield
Try wrapping all lines into and out of the sound card through one or more Type 43 powdered iron toroids. The toroids tend to block RF and they are easy to wrap and inexpensive. All of the major amateur retailers have these and expect to pay roughly three dollars a piece for them. Buy 4-6

RE: [digitalradio] Demostrating digital modes without lots of equipment ?

2006-03-20 Thread r_lwesterfield
Hello Andy, My Shreveport Amateur Radio group meets in the public library here in town. Most semi-large cities have a decent library and many have modern multi-media capabilities in their meeting rooms. You might get lucky and see if your group might meet you there at whatever they