I tried some PSK63 yesterday, and I am not impressed! I am an avid RTTY
contester, and in my opinion PSK63 will NEVER replace RTTY!
Bear in mind that I am WAY south of the majority of the stations, so all
signals are relatively weak compared to EU/NA stations. I have very little
difficulty
Hi Andy.the only problem was that those of us that usually work WSJT
JT65A on 14076 found that we couldnt due to the PSK63 ops on that
freq.it was mainly EU stations that were the worst.it would be
nice if some ops thought of other users of the band
73 David VK4BDJ
Andrew
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New release of MULTIPSK
Patrick Lindecker F6CTE has made available the latest version of his popular
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He writes:
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The analogy tying changes in progress to a recreational sport that has the
coincidence of relating to one of the changes in the past 2 centuries was a
nice touch.
However, if there is any practical reason for contesting other than vanity
and ego, it would be learning to become better operators.
John Becker, WØJAB wrote:
Roger regardless of what you think about Amtor and Pactor - both are
still doing very well. Other then a hand full of CW and SSB QSO's the
log book is full of both Amtor and Pactor 1, 2 and 3.
John, W0JAB
Incredible. And I am on digital almost every morning
This is also rationalization. The ability to provide disaster communications
entails many skills. Good contesting is virtually meaningless to that skill
set.
Rud Merriam K5RUD
ARES AEC Montgomery County, TX
http://TheHamNetwork.net
-Original Message-
From:
This is also rationalization. The ability to provide disaster
communications
entails many skills. Good contesting is virtually meaningless to that
skill
set.
Well, I'm not sure I agree with the implied assumption that the only
goal of amateur radio is the ability to provide disaster
Maybe the FCC rules that say the minimum power needed for the communication
should be used also say that the minimum bandwidth needed for the
communication should be used! Of course, there is more to it than just that,
as multi-tone modes, such as MFSK16 or Olivia, etc, use more bandwidth in
Rud,
I am surprised you would make such a statement since the skills of being
able to hear properly and transfer that skill to correctly copy and
record the messages is exactly the same skill needed as a contester. You
must have a high level of accuracy in each activity to do well.
Most
Skip you points are well taken.
My point was not to mix another mode in with a RTTY
contest.
If you really miss that smell of the machine oil and the
newsroom clatter stop by some time. Still doing RTTY
with a pair of 28's. One ASR and one KSR.
John, W0JAB
in the center of flyover country
At
How much skill is needed to recognize the few symbols transferred during a
contest exchange? Does that translate to general transfer of information?
Contesters specialize and tune their equipment. Does that translate into the
ability to quickly rig a dipole at an emergency center?
The former EC
Hi Rud,
Operating skill may not be the prime consideration. Contesters also strive
for the most effective stations in order to try and win. For DX contests,
this truly may mean low angles of radiation, but for SS contests, the avid
contester may utilize several antennas with different angles
Whether you are an accomplished contester or traffic handler, it comes
down to the same skill set of being able to get information from one
point to another. The contester usually does this with rapid exchanges
of minimal information, but requires considerable skill in hearing weak
signals in
I have tried PSK31 at Field Day and found it to be very poor for a
contesting mode. PSK63 is faster, but it is also even less sensitive
than PSK31. A while back, I tried PSK63 recently as a comparison to
PSK31 and it performed very poorly and we were forced to chose other
modes, e.g., MFSK16.
not if there is a CQ contester every 1kz running 1500 watts (or more)
screaming CQ CONTEST every 10 seconds. You can't pick a secondary freq, if
there are none empty.
And its getting so someone has a contest everyother week end. Thank God for
week days..!!
Garrett / AA0OI
- Original
Long long time ago (1969) a friend (now SK) who help me
become a ham told me that contest weed out the weak.
I for one love contest. Be it SSB CW or RTTY.
It's a bit like what they say about TV. If you don't like what you
are watching change the channel. Same holds true ham radio.
All 6 of my
Hi Andy and company interested in other VE's who are into the digital modes.
Any from VE4 , VE5,VE6, or VE7 especially?
John
VE5MU
I have been having a couple of small but odd-ball issues with
Multipsk and Microkeyer and thought I would try another sound card ,
just for the heck of it. I disabled my on-board sound card and
installed a Creative Audigy PCI card. I have installed many
soundcards over the years but ran in to
Greeting's:
On behalf of TARA (Troy Amateur Radio Association) of Troy, New York I'm
proud to announce that JOHN T CROTEAU, of Manchester, NH and better known as
JT - N1ESE will be taking over the reighns of our Digital Prefix Contest -
the
TARA Skirmish effective immediately. We've be a
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
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