[digitalradio] digital modes and signal reports

2008-06-23 Thread ekkonl
Hello, First a quick intro. Eventhough this is my first post, I've been lurking here since about the end of 2007, meanwhile studying for my licence, for which I did exam April 16th 2008, and passed. So today I'm a Novice radio amateur in the Netherlands, which puts me on

[digitalradio] Re: [psk31] Digest Number 1739

2008-06-23 Thread kh6ty
Neil, QuikPSK (http://www.qsl.net/kh6ty/psk63/) can send a picture of your ugly face, even if you do not have an Internet connection. It is not very big, but big enough to see how ugly you look! ;-) (URL) My name is Neil and I am 46 years old - up pops a picture of my ugly face. 73, Skip

Re: [digitalradio] digital modes and signal reports

2008-06-23 Thread Jeff Moore
By your own admission, most psk qso's are short. In addition, the band can change rapidly, so most of us want to get that report in at the beginning, because you may not get a chance otherwise. I agree that a generic report of 599 for everyone doesn't do any good. I try to give accurate

Re: [digitalradio] Re: [hfdec] HFLinknet Feedback and Tips - The End

2008-06-23 Thread Rick W.
I am not sure of why you wrote this as tips for using your system, but I can assure you it did not help me or anyone else in attempting to send messages. I am speaking of the longer messages, not the SMS type messages that some of us have been able to get through using AMD. After spending a

RE: [digitalradio] digital modes and signal reports

2008-06-23 Thread Curt Givens
Eric, I too have a lot of 599's in my log and think I know why at least for the hams using MixW if you leave it set for default RSQ it will send 599. I set my reply so it asks me to enter the RSQ before the macro runs and I try to read an actual signal report of the scope in the MixW screen. Seems