RE: [digitalradio] Re: QEX Article on HF Digital Propagation

2007-10-27 Thread Rud Merriam
Jose, Just as you were posting this message I was stumbling on a web site that agreed with your comment. With further searching I think I have the relationship. The QEX article has the statement that to go from the 3kHz bandwidth used you subtract 34 dB and add 10 log of the desired bandwidth in

RE: [digitalradio] Sub Channel DQPSK

2007-10-27 Thread John Bradley
For what it's worth Rud, PSK31 appears much more susceptible to phase distortion that wider modes such as MFSK and OLIVIA. Here, we are just over 50 degrees north latitude and have many more occasions to experience the Northern flutter from the aurora. This phase distortion knocks out PSK31

Re: [digitalradio] Sub Channel DQPSK

2007-10-27 Thread Jose A. Amador
Of course it is. PSK31 goes raw, while MFSK and Olivia have FEC added. So, stand a better chance of being decoded correctly. When nature starts stirring the gas above, all it reflects (refracts) suffers the same effect as it had passed thru the house of mirrors, making giants look like dwarfs

Re: [digitalradio] Re: QEX Article on HF Digital Propagation

2007-10-27 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rud Merriam wrote: Jose, Just as you were posting this message I was stumbling on a web site that agreed with your comment. With further searching I think I have the relationship. The QEX article has the statement that to go from the 3kHz bandwidth used you subtract 34 dB and add 10 log

[digitalradio] Anyone using the Navigator by US Interface?

2007-10-27 Thread Dave Sloan
A friend just got his Navigator in the mail yesterday and is having problems getting it to work. Anyone have any experience with the Navigator? TNX 73, Dave N0EOP

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] Anyone using the Navigator by US Interface?

2007-10-27 Thread Roger J. Buffington
Dave Sloan wrote: A friend just got his Navigator in the mail yesterday and is having problems getting it to work. Anyone have any experience with the Navigator? TNX 73, Dave N0EOP It is slightly tricky to set up, but once you get it set up it works wonderfully, and in a trouble-free

[digitalradio] Re: PSK under ionospheric flutter, was: QEX Article on HF Digital Propagation

2007-10-27 Thread Vojtech Bubnik
Up to PSK31, you can see this phenomenon. But if you increase the speed (PSK63), you decrease the sensitivity to Doppler but also increase (with 3 dB) the minimum S/N. All is a question of compromise. Yes, my point was that adding convolutional encoder, coding gain could somehow eliminate the

RE: [digitalradio] Anyone using the Navigator by US Interface?

2007-10-27 Thread Dave Sloan
Hi Roger, He worked with Glenn yesterday and Glenn is gone for the week-end. Of course he doesn't want to wait. He says the interface shows he is keying and the radio shows it is keying. But, he is getting nothing out. I told him to try raising his ALC some and to also check the cable. It looks

[digitalradio] Re: Sub Channel DQPSK

2007-10-27 Thread Vojtech Bubnik
Would the phase distortion that can corrupt a PSK signal occur the same on a M-PSK signal? Phase and frequency modulation are two sides of the same coin. There is a baseband transformation to translate from phase to frequency modulation and vice versa - integration / derivation. Integrate

Re: [digitalradio] Re: QEX Article on HF Digital Propagation

2007-10-27 Thread John B. Stephensen
RTTY is binary FSK so the bandwidth is approximately the deviation (170 Hz) plus the baud rate or 215 Hz. 73, John KD6OZH - Original Message - From: John Becker, WØJAB To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 01:04 UTC Subject: Re: [digitalradio]

Re: [digitalradio] Anyone using the Navigator by US Interface?

2007-10-27 Thread Roger J. Buffington
Dave Sloan wrote: Hi Roger, He worked with Glenn yesterday and Glenn is gone for the week-end. Of course he doesn't want to wait. He says the interface shows he is keying and the radio shows it is keying. But, he is getting nothing out. I told him to try raising his ALC some and to also

Re: [digitalradio] Digital Propagation Tests

2007-10-27 Thread Tony
Hi Steve, Too bad you did not also run MT-63 at all three modes for comparison. I did try MT63 at 2k, 1k and 500hz (squelch off). Copy was completely garbled with the harsh path delay and frequency spread settings used. I tried removing the AWGN noise channel from the simulator to see if it

Re: [digitalradio] Digital Propagation Tests

2007-10-27 Thread Jose Amador
Real attempts on 40 meters have had the same results for me. On 20 it works far better, almost perfect.. MT63 is robust but too slow, and waving the carpet leaves it dizzy. Being too slow, even slow doppler has a too high impact on it. Jose, CO2JA --- Tony escribió: Hi Steve, Too bad

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Sub Channel DQPSK

2007-10-27 Thread Jose Amador
Vojtech Bubnik escribió: PSK as well as MFSK will be affected by multipath, it will create another type of inter symbol interference - time overlap. DominoEX with its incremental MFSK tries to cope with it, but there is a price for that. I am not convinced yet that the incremental MFSK is

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Sub Channel DQPSK

2007-10-27 Thread Rick
Have you found particular combinations of Olivia BW and tones that seem to work the best for various conditions? My frustration with Olivia is that it is impractically slow for keyboard chats unless you use the higher baud speeds to get the wpm to at least 30 wpm. But then it does not seem to

Re: [digitalradio] Digital Propagation Tests

2007-10-27 Thread Rick
Steve, If MT-63 is robust relative to MIL-STD-188-110, then the latter may not be all that robust! I do not find MT-63 to be all that robust, and it is not as sensitive as other modes since it does not work well into the noise. Do you have any real world amateur tests yet on the

[digitalradio] XT2C : Well, a nice LOTW suprise

2007-10-27 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Details K3UKXT2C2007-01-15 X40M RTTY7.038 BURKINA FASO I don't seriously chase confirmation via cards any more, just QSL the folks that send me theirs. Other than that, I rely on dribs and drabs from LOTW. So today's XT2C card was quite a pleasant

RE: [digitalradio] XT2C : Well, a nice LOTW suprise

2007-10-27 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Well, how about THAT. I'm glad you mentioned it, cuz I didn't even notice the LoTW confirmation -- they must have just up loaded their QSOs. XT2C was very prompt sending out their hardcopy cards... I got min back in April. First ever Burkina Faso for me, so it was a big deal. But if I can get

Re: [digitalradio] XT2C : Well, a nice LOTW suprise

2007-10-27 Thread W4LDE-Ron
Andy, Congratulations, I also received four confirming band/modes including the RTTY QSO, nice to see some DX Expo's using LOTW Ron W4LDE Andrew O'Brien wrote: Details K3UKXT2C2007-01-15 X40M RTTY7.038 BURKINA FASO I don't seriously chase confirmation

Re: [digitalradio] Re: QEX Article on HF Digital Propagation

2007-10-27 Thread Rick
The part that I don't fully understand is the bandwidth calculation. When I use PSK31, isn't the bandwidth pretty much set by the baud rate and width of the signal? Often it is expressed as around double the baud rate or ~ 60 Hz. Now if I have my rig wide open with the 3.6 kHz bandwidth and

RE: [digitalradio] Re: QEX Article on HF Digital Propagation

2007-10-27 Thread Rud Merriam
I took the dB results from the authors web page and calculated the bandwidth adjusted dB and the Shannon-Hartley channel capacity: Report SNRBWBW Adj Adjusted Capacity Mode (dB) (Hz) 10log(3k/b) SNR (dB) (bps) SSB

RE: [digitalradio] Re: QEX Article on HF Digital Propagation

2007-10-27 Thread John Becker, WØJAB
Sorry but I may have missed something. Your point is ? ? ? At 07:11 PM 10/27/2007, you wrote: I took the dB results from the authors web page and calculated the bandwidth adjusted dB and the Shannon-Hartley channel capacity: Report SNRBWBW Adj

[digitalradio] Re: HF to Cell Phone Texting - SMS

2007-10-27 Thread Bruce Sawtelle
Hi Bonnie, I've gone through the link below and unfortunately, haven't seen any details on how to send SMS messages. Is there a step-by-step link I'm missing? tnx es 73 Bruce- W3NJ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, expeditionradio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cell Phone texting, also known

Re: [digitalradio] Re: QEX Article on HF Digital Propagation

2007-10-27 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Rick, When I use PSK31, isn't the bandwidth pretty much set by the baud rate The baud rate and the windowing (square, cosine...) chosen... down to say 100 Hz, is this changing anything in terms of its practical ability to work deeper into the noise? There will be no change if you have

[digitalradio] ALE400 Good

2007-10-27 Thread Andrew O'Brien
I think Patrick may be on to something here, ALE400 with ARQ FAE worked very well in my QSO on 30M with Sholto KE7HPV. ALE without a wide bandwidth ! GREETINGS TO ANDY FROM SHOLTO IN REPUBLIC, WA[23h51m29s] [AMD] [from KE7HPV ] [to K3UK] (his BER=30 + SINAD= 7) ok we got a connect

Re: [digitalradio] Introducing Digiital Radio Century Club numbers

2007-10-27 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Done. On 10/23/07, Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andy, Please add me to the list. I'm not real active, but maybe that will change. The call is KC9DOA. Thanks, Mike *Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED]* wrote: It took a while, but I have mined the information associated

[digitalradio] Re: ALE400 Good

2007-10-27 Thread Bill McLaughlin
Agree, After several ARQ FAE qsos and some via unproto, the ALE400 mode does surprisingly well both on the lower and higher bands...well worth further investigation. 73, Bill N9DSJ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Patrick may be on to

RE: [digitalradio] Re: QEX Article on HF Digital Propagation

2007-10-27 Thread Rud Merriam
This is to address the question of why a mode can work at -10 dB when Shannon-Hartley indicates this is not possible for that mode. The calculations adjust the reported dB for a 3kHz signal to the show the dB for bandwidth of the mode. This is the dB applicable for Shannon-Hartley. I lacked the

Re: [digitalradio] Need to Expand the HF Auto Band Segments

2007-10-27 Thread Chuck Mayfield
I don't think 10% of each HF ham band is at all reasonable. Perhaps 10% of each data b and segment would be more reasonable. Your suggestion for automatic sub bands would take an unreasonably large part of most data sub bands. see my notes below in [brackets]] 73, Chuck Mayfield - AA5J But