Re: [digitalradio] Re: [microHAM] MuiltPSK 3.9 - Router

2005-07-23 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Ron, As this Com scanning and ckecking seems to pose a little problem, I will add an option to permits not to scan and not to verify the Com port before using (but by default, I will propose scanning and checking). I will propose this in 3.10 version. 73 Patrick - Original Message

[digitalradio] New release (3.10) of MULTIPSK

2005-09-02 Thread Patrick Lindecker
New release (3.10) of MULTIPSK RX/TX: PSK10/BPSK31/QPSK31/PSKFEC31/BPSK63/QPSK63/PSKAM10-31-50/PSK63F - PSK220F + DIGISSTV "Run"/CW/CCW/CCW-FSK/THROB/THROBX/MFSK8/MFSK16 (+ SSTV)/OLIVIA DF/DOMINO DF/MT63/RTTY 45/75/ASCII/AMTOR FEC/ PACKET 300-1200 + APRS+ DIGISSTV "Run"/FELD HELL/PSK

Re: [digitalradio] Installing new MultiPSK - on top of or instead of

2005-09-06 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Paul, After unzipping Multipsk.zip, start Install.exe. If you have the 3.9 or 3.9.1 version already installed, click on the button Update. If not click on Installation (choose the same folder, so the old files will be only replaced by new ones). 73 Patrick - Original Message -

Re: [digitalradio] Re: what is that signal on 7090

2005-09-16 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello John and David, I add these two beeps at the start-up for a possible manual tuning or simply a tuning check. These two beeps, visible on the waterfall, must be at the same position that the two vertical blue lines corresponding to the minimum and the maximum frequencies of the Olivia

[digitalradio] New release (3.10.1) of MULTIPSK

2005-10-07 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello to all Ham and SWL, The new release of MULTIPSK (3.10.1) is in my Web site (http://f6cte.free.fr). The main mirror site is Earl's, N8KBR: http://multipsk.eqth.org/index.html Another mirror site isTerry's: http://www.hamsoft.co.uk/ Multispk associated to Clock are freeware programs

Re: [digitalradio] CW decoding comparison (MPSK, Mixw, Hamscope)

2005-10-09 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello to all, Here is an extract of one of my paper (aboutCCW). 73 Patrick Problems with the automatic decoding of the traditional Morse For a computer, Morse is seen as a sequence of bits having either "0" or "1" for value, a bit being as long as a dot. For example, the letter "A"

Re: [digitalradio] Re: CW decoding comparison (MPSK, Mixw, Hamscope)

2005-10-10 Thread Patrick Lindecker
On 2005-10-09 09:07, Patrick Lindecker wrote: Hello to all, Here is an extract of one of my paper (about CCW). 73 Patrick * Problems with the automatic decoding of the traditional Morse * For a computer, Morse is seen as a sequence of bits having either 0 or 1 for value

Re: [digitalradio] Re: CW decoding comparison (MPSK, Mixw, Hamscope)

2005-10-11 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Jose, Joe and Rick, Thanks for all information. I'm not sure that the way to decode with a simple threshold and simple way to determine speed can give good results... A ham told me that it compares an external decoder with a modern decoder (no publicity), regarding the S/N level. He

Re: [digitalradio] CW decoding comparison (MPSK, Mixw, Hamscope)

2005-10-12 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Bill, I have no opinion about issue (which is a way out in French) but about: If CW were both sent and received using the perfect timing of computers, it would allow Humans to decode, on the side as it were. This exist. It is called CCW (Coherent CW). It has been created by Raymond

Re: [digitalradio] PAX QSO

2005-11-21 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Rick, Glad you did an ARQ PAX QSO and TKS for comments. Some remarks: * the PAX modulation has a rough speed of 59 wpm. The ARQ protocol must divide, let's say by 2 the speed. However, you are not obliged to wait for the answer of the other Ham as the protocol manages a full-duplex link,

Re: [digitalradio] PAX

2005-11-22 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Kevin, The basic QRG would be 14075 KHz USB AF=1000 Hz and better at 17h00 UTC as it is a sort of implicit sked for interested europeans Hams. 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: Kevin O'Rorke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Diitalradio digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [digitalradio] PAX

2005-11-22 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello John, RR for all. If a better QRG, acceptable by all regions could be chosen for PAX QSOs, it will be welcome! 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: John Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 8:34 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [digitalradio] Multipsk 311

2005-11-23 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello There are a lot of mode titles missing. The buttons work ok but fiding Curious, perhaps a bad downloading. Try again, if it continues, PSE send me a snapshot. However, the modes can be selected from the button Mode. 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: Kevin O'Rorke [EMAIL

Re: [digitalradio] CW ID of Olivia/Contestia tone setting

2005-12-07 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Paul, I propose for all the Olivia and Olivia derived modes, as you need only one mark to tune precisely the transmission and as Mixw and Multipsk dispose of 3 cursors (lower, middle and upper) to define the transmission in this way: * Olivia: upper and lower limits, * Contestia: only one

Re: [digitalradio] Re: RTTYM/CONTESTIA

2005-12-11 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Paul, I'm speaking with Nick (Mixw) about the differences (in the specifications) between Olivia and Contestia/RTTYM. When I'll issue these modes (after Mixw will officially issue these ones not before!), I'll add the specifications in my help file as usual, so they will be public. In

Re: [digitalradio] MultiPSK query

2005-12-20 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Mel, Position the mouse over a macro (sequence), click right, you are in the sequence edition where you will find macros for sending the call and the name of the contacted Ham. There are two set of sequences (with and without Ctrl) so 24 possible sequences). For this type of question,

Re: [digitalradio] Re: MFSK Mode Recognition

2005-12-23 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Murray, Jerry and Walt, In the last test version of Multipsk, I've added the following feature: each transmission in a given mode will be prefixed by the name of the mode transmitted in CMT Hell. I have dimensionned the name so as the mode will be clearly visible on the waterfall. For

Re: [digitalradio] Re: MFSK Mode Recognition

2005-12-24 Thread Patrick Lindecker
a mode id function, it would be fairly easy to do by replaying the sound buffer multiple times rather than running parallel decoders in realtime (hams often have slow computers). I think both ideas can co-exist. 73, Leigh/ WA5ZNU. On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 5:59 pm, Patrick Lindecker wrote: Hello

Re: [digitalradio] Re: MFSK Mode Recognition

2005-12-24 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Sorry, a correction of my previous message the better S/N (best autocorrelation on 64 bits and x carriers) can be given by a 4 tones 500 Hz or 2 x (4 tones x 500 Hz transmission...) which will be seen as a 8 tones 1000 Hz No I'm wrong, I forgot the interleaving. The best S/N will be seen for

Re: [digitalradio] Mode Recognition

2006-01-02 Thread Patrick Lindecker
some audio, and decode it using all your modems and display the decoded text the user will pick the right mode. On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 6:16 am, Patrick Lindecker wrote: Hello Murray, 1. An FFT with spectrogram and long-term average spectrum display, to determine signal bandwidth, perhaps number

[digitalradio] New release (3.12) of MULTIPSK (CHIP64/128, PAX2, RTTY 50, Pactor1 FEC, SSTV PD50/90/120/180/240, Video ID)

2006-01-08 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello to all Ham and SWL, The new release of MULTIPSK (3.12) is in my Web site (http://f6cte.free.fr). The mirror sites are Terry's: http://www.hamsoft.co.uk/and Earl's, N8KBR: http://multipsk.eqth.org/index.html (not yet updated) Multispk associated to Clock are freeware programs but

Re: [digitalradio] MultiPSK problem

2006-01-09 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Rick, You must have selected the Software mixer option of the mixer menu on the Configuration screen. In that case, the sound card mixer is managed directly by the program, this to adjust the optimum level (Automatic Gain Control). The problem is the diversity of sound card mixers which

Re: [digitalradio] RMPSK Redundant Multiple PSK31 or PSK63

2006-02-18 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Bonnie, I have tried this solution (just to see what it gave), with two PSKFEC31 transmissions transmitting the same text with a shift of 80 Hz. I call this test mode Quad because there were two redundancies in time (due to PSKFEC31 itself) and two in frequency, so 2x2 redundancies. I do

Re: [digitalradio] Re: PSKmail

2006-02-20 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello to all, As a modest alternative to PSKmail under Windows, for the next 3.13 version of Multipsk, I'll free all the responder and mail functions of PAX and PAX2 (ARQ modes derived from Olivia) which are, for instance, available under licence (but used by nobody, so...). 73 Patrick

Re: [digitalradio] Re: RMPSK Redundant Multiple PSK31 or PSK63

2006-02-21 Thread Patrick Lindecker
hope this discussion leads to implementation of RMPSK modes in amateur soundcard software. I am trying to encourage hams to experiment with it for the present and future needs of many ham operators. 73---Bonnie KQ6XA --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Lindecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [digitalradio] New release (3.13) of MULTIPSK

2006-02-26 Thread Patrick Lindecker
sound card. I hope that you will add this possibility to a future release. Bob N4HY Patrick Lindecker wrote: ** *New release (3.13) of MULTIPSK* *RX/TX:* PSK10/BPSK31/QPSK31/CHIP (64/128)/PSKFEC31/BPSK63/QPSK63/PSKAM10-31-50/PSK63F - PSK220F + DIGISSTV Run/CW/CCW/CCW-FSK/THROB/THROBX

Re: [digitalradio] MULTIPSK CW

2006-03-09 Thread Patrick Lindecker
software. It uses ticks from TimerMM.dll to drive a state machine. What sort of timer are you using? 73, Dave, AA6YQ -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Lindecker Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 18:27 PM

Re: [digitalradio] Re: MULTIPSK CW

2006-03-09 Thread Patrick Lindecker
, the specified code is invoked. I do this with TimerMM.DLL, but you may want to use the Windows Multimedia Library directly depending on the language in which MultiPSK is written. 73, Dave, AA6YQ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Lindecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Dave

Re: [digitalradio] Re: MULTIPSK CW

2006-03-10 Thread Patrick Lindecker
is MultiPSK written, Patrick, and what compiler or development environment are you using? 73, Dave, AA6YQ -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Lindecker Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 17:29 PM To: digitalradio

Re: [digitalradio] PAX 2 Beacon

2006-03-10 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello to all, Here is an extract of the help file which explains how Patrick will connectJohn (same procedure as in Packet): - buttons "Connect" and "Disconnect" (for "connected" mode)The operator (let's say Patrick) may connect to another Ham (here John) by clicking on the button

Re: [digitalradio] Re: MULTIPSK CW

2006-03-11 Thread Patrick Lindecker
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Lindecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Dave, MultiPSK is written in Pascal. I use Delphi 6 (Borland). 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:36

Re: [digitalradio] PAX 2 becon

2006-03-11 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Rick, unproto packets with PAX2. I did have some luck with PAX some time back although the mode was very slow. I tried to connect with another station who was also on PAX 2 in the last day or so and we just could not do it. Normally only one send a Video ID (however, between two

Re: [digitalradio] PAX2 20M

2006-03-12 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello John, Please leave me an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you were successful, or hear my signal coming back. Power out is 30W One additive possibility for other Hams is to connect to your Pax2 responder and to leave a message. You will see all received messages by clicking on the

Re: [digitalradio] Re: MULTIPSK CW

2006-03-12 Thread Patrick Lindecker
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Lindecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TKS Dave for the information. I will see what are Windows callbacks, as this seems to be the key. One question: do you know the precision of the event timing (as far as I know each thread is switched 80 times/sec maximum

[digitalradio] First PAX2 connect + arious modes look

2006-03-14 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Q or simply using the "tune" function. *could this eventually be built into MixW? Would be nice to see MultiPSK go to a bunch of drop down menus so the screen is not so busy. tnx fer all the work you have put into this John VE5MU ----- Origin

Re: [digitalradio] What modes are these?

2006-03-15 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Alan, Have you tried standard and FEC DominoEX mode (in 11 bauds in general) ? 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: Alan NV8A [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 6:10 PM Subject: [digitalradio] What modes are these? I copied

Re: [digitalradio] No PAX(2) in MultiPSK 3.9!?

2006-03-16 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Alan, The Multipsk present version is the 3.13 one. For the downloading here is an extract of a previous message: The new release of MULTIPSK (3.13) is in my Web site (http://f6cte.free.fr). The main mirror site is Earl's, N8KBR: http://multipsk.eqth.org/index.html Another mirror site is

Re: [digitalradio] PAX2

2006-03-16 Thread Patrick Lindecker
mode and APRS""Description of the specific PAX/PAX2 commands (+beacon/responder/radio mail)" 73 Patrick PAX/PAX2 Creator: Patrick Lindecker (F6CTE) in 2005 Description:Baud rate: 62.5 for PAX and 125 for PAX2Speed: 5.86 characters/sec so 59 wpm ou 11.71 characters/sec so 1

Re: [digitalradio] No PAX(2) in MultiPSK 3.9!?

2006-03-17 Thread Patrick Lindecker
's Bob N4HY Patrick Lindecker wrote: Hello Alan, The Multipsk present version is the 3.13 one. For the downloading here is an extract of a previous message: The new release of MULTIPSK (3.13) is in my Web site (http://f6cte.free.fr). The main mirror site is Earl's, N8KBR: http

Re: [digitalradio] Unidentified on 14111 ?

2006-03-17 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Rick, RR for all the information. One thing I just discovered is that I can not cut and paste from the Multipsk screen or else I could show you the data here. All the transmitted and received characters are stored (up to 65000 characters). PSE just click on the button QSO and there

Re: [digitalradio] No PAX(2) in MultiPSK 3.9!?

2006-03-17 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Germano, "3.9" does not pertain to the real numbers set! Simply toa double dimension set: one dimension for the "version" (3) and one dimension for the sub-version (9). Sometimes I add a third dimension for the sub-sub-version. 73 Patrick - Original Message - From:

[digitalradio] No PAX(2) in MultiPSK 3.9!? + Question: sound card programming for Windows

2006-03-17 Thread Patrick Lindecker
uld be the age group of the user, and so on. 73 de Germano in GG76BT - Original Message ----- From: Patrick Lindecker To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 6:27 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] No PAX(2)

Re: [digitalradio] Dumb question of the day

2006-03-21 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Andy, software application has to see before it starts printing out text ? In general for the common modes, as PSK31, RTTY, the decoding is permanent. If you don't use Squelch, you will be have random characters in absence of signal. Some modes as Packet, Pax, Pax2, Pactor1 needs some

Re: [digitalradio] Auto Mode in Multipsk...works

2006-04-16 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Andy, Just a precision. The auto-mode detects the PSK mode between all Multipsk BPSK modes (Chip included). However, the signal must be good because the differences are sometimes really small as for example between BPSK63 and BPSK63F (Nino's mode). It is based not on a quality of

Re: [digitalradio] newbie digital questions

2006-04-18 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Lynn, Are there any step-by-step instuctions for getting started with MixW or MultiPSK? Their documentation is a bit opaque for beginners. I can answer for Multipsk. Before reading the help file, look at the presentation available on my web site (http://f6cte.free.fr). This file is very

[digitalradio] New release (3.14) of MULTIPSK

2006-04-29 Thread Patrick Lindecker
New release (3.14) of MULTIPSKRX/TX: PSK10/BPSK31-63-125/QPSK31-63-125/CHIP (64/128)/PSKFEC31/PSKAM10-31-50/PSK63F - PSK220F + DIGISSTV "Run"/CW/CCW/CCW-FSK/THROB/THROBX/MFSK8/MFSK16 (+ SSTV)/OLIVIA/ DominoF DF/DominoEX/MT63/RTTY 45/75/ RTTY 50+SYNOP+SHIP/ASCII/AMTOR FEC/ PACKET 300-1200

Re: [digitalradio] Identifying digital modes

2006-05-13 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Bob, Precisely, Multipsk gives the BPSK mode used if conditions are not too bad. I think that it must be extremely complex to directly give the name of the mode, this because there are too many possibilities of modulation (OOK, PSK, FSK, MFSK, IFK...), coding (without, FEC with a big

Re: [digitalradio] Re: software

2006-05-19 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello, I talked to someone recently who asserted that IZ8BLY MT63 works much better than MT63 under MultiPSK. Can anyone confirm or deny? Perhaps IZ8BLY works better than Multipsk. I don't know. However, before working MT63 in Multipsk, you must click on the button sampling freq. and then

[digitalradio] New release (3.14.1) of MULTIPSK

2006-05-21 Thread Patrick Lindecker
New release (3.14.1) of MULTIPSK The main modifications of MULTIPSK 3.14.1 are the following: * bug of the radio mail in PAX/PAX2 fixed, * bugs on Olivia and DominoEX fixed, * improvement of the Olivia decoding in presence of QRM. 73 Patrick Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to

[digitalradio] PAX2 beacon/responder tonight

2006-05-28 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello to all, In addition to Ken (N4VSD), for the Hams who want to let a message (for an experimentation goal)to the Pax2 radio-mail of Asmo (OH3NNZ), his Pax2 responder will be QRV from 17h00 to 20h00 UTC in 3590 KHz USB (AF=1000 Hz). Asmo will be Pax2 beaconing to signal his presence.

[digitalradio] Multipsk 3.14.2

2006-05-28 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello to all, I have issued a 3.14.2 version of Multipsk to solve several bugs in Olivia and CCW. My Web site is (http://f6cte.free.fr. The main mirror site is Earl's, N8KBR: http://multipsk.eqth.org/index.html Another mirror site isTerry's: http://www.hamsoft.co.uk/ 73 Patrick

Re: [digitalradio] 16 bit sampling? and Chip64/128

2006-06-03 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello, In Multipsk, the default format is 8 bits. You can switch to 16 bits if you want. There is no sensible difference is the signal is normal (let's say level 10 % ). However, under this normal signal there is a theoritical decoding gain which is surely inferior to 0.1 dB or less. The

Re: [digitalradio] 16 bit sampling?

2006-06-03 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Not sure if you call that one or two bit sampling. It's one bit and surely not bad. 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: Ralph Mowery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] 16 bit sampling? --- kc0rdg

Re: [digitalradio] Re: digital mode

2006-06-08 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Bob, Itried all the Multipsk modes. It is notone of them. It could be something as a PSK (BPSK or QPSK) mode at 200 or 300 bauds or perhaps a MSK mode. 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: Andrew O'Brien To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent:

Re: [digitalradio] Digital Video on 12.5khz channel

2006-06-08 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Sam, If it interests anyone, then I can publish a specification for peopleto look through? I would be interested to read your specifications and also interested to know what sort of compression system you propose (Runlength, LZW, DFT...?). Note for information: in Multipsk, I've

[digitalradio] New release (4.0) of MULTIPSK

2006-06-18 Thread Patrick Lindecker
propose the QRP frequency: 14075 Khz USB (AF around 1000 Hz), at 17h00 UTC. 73 Patrick Voice specifications Creator : Patrick Lindecker (F6CTE) in 2006 Description : Baud rate : 21 Speed : about 2 characters/sec so 20 wpm Modulation : FSK 8 tones (3 bits arranged in a Gray form

[digitalradio] Official frequencies for Contestia and RTTYM

2006-06-24 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello, In the next Multipsk version (4.1), I will add the Contestia and RTTYM modes (with the same sub-modes as for Olivia). But I wonder if, at the present time, there are official or gentlemen agreed frequencies for these modes. If so I will add them to my help document. Here is what is

Re: [digitalradio] International DominoEx Prefix Contest: Serial number in Multipsk

2006-07-15 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello to all DominoEX contesters, A first hint (from the help gile) for the ones using Multipsk: The number to the right of the field called Call represents the number of the next QSO to be logged. It is useful for contests to know how many QSO have been realized (+1). This number can be

Re: [digitalradio] DomminoEX Frequencies

2006-07-18 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Rod, For the proposed frequencies for all modes, click on the button Frequencies. I have suggested the same frequencies as for the other MFSK modes (as the modulation (IFK) and the bandwidth are not very different): Here is from the Multipsk help: MFSK16, MFSK8, THROB, THROBX, DominoF,

Re: [digitalradio] DomminoEX

2006-07-19 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello John, You have a complete description (sound and waterfall shape) of almost all modes in : http://f1ult.free.fr/DIGIMODES/MULTIPSK/digimodesF6CTE_en.htm 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: John Becker To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006

[digitalradio] Fw: [multipsk] MULTIDEM 1.0 ?

2006-07-22 Thread Patrick Lindecker
For information, to avoid looking for a non-issued program. 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: Patrick Lindecker To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [multipsk] MULTIDEM 1.0 ? Hello Andy, Does anyone have a URL for Patrick's MULTIDEM 1.0? I

Re: [digitalradio] different modes

2006-07-22 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Now for modes, You have a complete description (sound and waterfall shape) of almost all modes in : http://f1ult.free.fr/DIGIMODES/MULTIPSK/digimodesF6CTE_en.htm 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: Ralph Mowery To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 22,

Re: [digitalradio] multi digital mode beacon? Maybe Multipsk?

2006-08-14 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello to all, Patrick, I wonder if this is something you would consider as a feature in Multipsk? Perhaps just for three predetermined modes plus CW (Maybe Olivia, PSK31, and RTTY?) It would be a bit complex to do, but there is a way to do this, but only under Windows XP computers. Start

Re: [digitalradio] multi digital mode beacon? Maybe Multipsk?

2006-08-14 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Did you mean to say that among the various MS versions of windows XP is the first that can do this? Yes exactly. Windows 95, 98 did not share sound card. However the main problem of the Windows sound card management (under any Windows system) is that you cannot process individual samples in

Re: [digitalradio] The digital throughput challenge on HF - peak and mean power

2006-08-24 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Rick, the peak and mean power for the various modes listed in the In Multipsk, you have the ratio between the average power and the peak power. The peak power is obtained if you have no band base windowing and if you are always transmitting one carrier at a given time (RTTY, MFSK16...).

[digitalradio] MULTIPSK 4.1 / CLOCK 1.5.3 / MULTIDEM 1.0 (USB/LSB/AM demodulator for direct conversion receivers)

2006-08-25 Thread Patrick Lindecker
New release (4.1) of MULTIPSK RX/TX: PSK10/BPSK31-63-125/QPSK31-63-125/CHIP (64/128)/PSKFEC31/PSKAM10-31-50/PSK63F - PSK220F + DIGISSTV Run/CW/CCW/CCW-FSK/THROB/THROBX/MFSK8/ MFSK16 (+ SSTV)/OLIVIA/CONTESTIA/RTTYM/VOICE/DominoF DF/DominoEX/MT63/RTTY 45/75/ RTTY 50+SYNOP+SHIP/ASCII/AMTOR FEC/

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Timing requirements of digital ARQ

2006-08-28 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Rick, An additive remark to Dave. In Multispk, I have added Pactor 1 (RX/TX) but only in FEC. I would have liked to propose an ARQ Pactor1 but it is impossible. A bit in Pactor1 lasts 10 ms or 5 ms (200 bauds). This obliges to have a precision of at least 2 ms, which would be easy under

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-04 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Rick, I don't think Multipsk adjusts for baud rate below the 300 baud speed. No Rick, it does not. However, some time ago I added a 110 bauds Packet to Multipsk and test it, for fun. It was not better that the 300 bauds (and normally it's easy to be better than the 300 bauds...). It was

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-04 Thread Patrick Lindecker
, Rick, KV9U Patrick Lindecker wrote: Hello Rick, I don't think Multipsk adjusts for baud rate below the 300 baud speed. No Rick, it does not. However, some time ago I added a 110 bauds Packet to Multipsk and test it, for fun. It was not better that the 300 bauds

Re: [digitalradio] ARQ sound card modes

2006-09-05 Thread Patrick Lindecker
way to develop a serious ARQ sound card mode that can work with existing computer abilities. If it also had adaptive ability to meet the challenges of the RF conditions at the moment, you would have a huge winner. 73, Rick, KV9U Patrick Lindecker wrote: Hello Rick, Yes

Re: [digitalradio] ARQ sound card modes

2006-09-06 Thread Patrick Lindecker
the world there were some issues on some stations being too far away. And then again too close if the rig turnaround time was insufficiently fast. Pactor has some adjustments for that. 73, Rick, KV9U Patrick Lindecker wrote: Hello Rick, RR for all! Pax2 has a speed

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARQ sound card modes

2006-09-12 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Walt and Jose, Yes it would be a very good thing to compare all digital modes with their respective qualities and weakness. It would give ideas for new specifications of mode. For a much more fine description of the modes, see the F1ULT Pascal WEB site:

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARQ sound card modes

2006-09-12 Thread Patrick Lindecker
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARQ sound card modes Patrick Lindecker wrote: Yes it would be a very good thing to compare all digital modes with their respective qualities and weakness. It would give ideas for new

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARQ sound card modes

2006-09-13 Thread Patrick Lindecker
), sensitivity to QRM, QSB, ionospheric Doppler modulation and so on. 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: kd4e To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:46 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARQ sound card modes Patrick Lindecker wrote: Yes

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARQ sound card modes

2006-09-13 Thread Patrick Lindecker
: [digitalradio] Re: ARQ sound card modes --- Patrick Lindecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jose, some questions, * for Pactor, why do you need a so precise timing It seems that you need a 1/100,000 precision or better. This because the RX Pactor modem follows an exact timing

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARQ sound card modes

2006-09-14 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello, When we were on MS-DOS PC (good old time HI), the clock (and all the hardware in fact) was accessible by program (through registers) and it was easy to determine the error of the PC cristal. I measured in several MS-DOS PC an error of more or less 1/3000, which was not very good, but I

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARQ sound card modes

2006-09-15 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Patrick Lindecker wrote: Hello, When we were on MS-DOS PC (good old time HI), the clock (and all the hardware in fact) was accessible by program (through registers) and it was easy to determine the error of the PC cristal. I measured in several MS-DOS PC an error of more or less 1/3000, which

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARQ Soundcard Modes

2006-09-16 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello, Is it just that the Pactor mode allows only a very short time for the ACK/NAK, or is there some synchronization from packet to packet that must be maintained? The second proposal is the good one. Is it possible that one could write a sound card program that could monitor Pactor II/III

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARQ Soundcard Modes

2006-09-16 Thread Patrick Lindecker
@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Lindecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is it just that the Pactor mode allows only a very short time for the ACK/NAK, or is there some synchronization from packet to packet that must be maintained? The second proposal is the good one

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARQ Soundcard Modes

2006-09-17 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello, Note: there are not the only modes without documentation... No amateur modes. The optimum possible is the DominoEX specifications of Murray ZL1BPU (a professional work). Some amateur modes are only documented through source. It's possible to extract specifications from a source but it's

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Don't hear much clamor about, Chirp, DominoEx, MFSK16 anymore!

2006-09-21 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Jerry, PAX2 monitored a QSO on 30 meters, it was way to slow, I don't feel it is a viable keyboard mode. If the number of retries is high (in noisy conditions) the speed can be low but in normal conditions the speed is 50 wpm after protocol (rough speed before protocol: 115 wpm). It is

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Implementing Contestia/RTTYM, could use some advice

2006-09-27 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Joe, What is sure is that there is no other differences that the ones I gave in the RX/TX modes selection and their descriptions chapter, so modifications on: * Block size (symbols) * Scrambling pseudo-random sequence * Scrambling shift (in number of bits of sequence right rotation) *

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-11 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Rick, Does anyone have any "inside" information that would suggest that we will be able to lower the required S/N ratios for a given speed or are we already too close to the Shannon Limit as it is? The only solution to do voice exchange with a low S/N would be to translate all the

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Kantronics, Kam XL

2006-10-12 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Jose, Rick and the group, About Pax/Pax2, some weeks ago a Ham told me about adding these modes in the Multipsk_Client program. Thisprogram (source and .EXE available from my site)permits to interface with Multipsk through a TCP/IP link in almost all modes, Multipsk becoming a sort

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Kantronics, Kam XL

2006-10-13 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Ken, These modes (PAX/PAX2) have a protocol close to AX25 (between AX25 and Pactor 1), with a modulation close to Olivia and closer to Contestia. The modulation is described on my help (RX/TX modes selection and their descriptions) and the protocol (in french) is downloadble from

Re: [digitalradio] Throb-X character set?

2006-10-23 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Joe, Well, I gave up trying to implement Contestia/RTTYM in Fldigi. Dave I don't know much the Pawell code, as it is complex and written in the C++ language which is difficult to read. About Throbx, here are the symbols for THROB and THROBX, but you can ask directly to Lionel Sear for

[digitalradio] Fw: [multipsk] PAX on 30 Meters

2006-10-29 Thread Patrick Lindecker
For information, 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: lweaver To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 3:58 PM Subject: [multipsk] PAX on 30 Meters For today I am going to try 30 meters. I will be on a dial freq of 10.137 USB, audio freq of 1000 Hz. I will be in

[digitalradio] New release (4.1.1) of MULTIPSK + Clock 1.6

2006-11-06 Thread Patrick Lindecker
New release (4.1.1) of MULTIPSK RX/TX: PSK10/BPSK31-63-125/QPSK31-63-125/CHIP (64/128)/PSKFEC31/PSKAM10-31-50/PSK63F - PSK220F + DIGISSTV "Run"/CW/CCW/CCW-FSK/THROB/THROBX/MFSK8/MFSK16 (+ SSTV)/OLIVIA/CONTESTIA/RTTYM/VOICE/DominoF DF/DominoEX/MT63/RTTY 45/75/ RTTY

[digitalradio] Test in PAX through a repeater

2006-11-17 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello to all We would like to experiment APRS PAX (PAX not PAX2) transmission through a PAX repeater. Fred (OH/DK4ZC) proposes to be a PAX repeater this saturday 18/11/2006 from 15h00 to 17h00 UTC. His locator is KP30JK in Finland. From 15h00 to 16h00 UTC Fred will beam towards Europe and from

[digitalradio] Fw: Test in PAX through a repeater

2006-11-18 Thread Patrick Lindecker
- Original Message - From: Patrick Lindecker To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 11:33 PM Subject: Test in PAX through a repeater Hello to all We would like to experiment APRS PAX (PAX not PAX2) transmission through a PAX repeater. Fred (OH

Re: [digitalradio] MFSK 16 Beacon

2006-11-23 Thread Patrick Lindecker
- Original Message - From: Patrick Lindecker Hello Simon, I measured the minimum S/N (in general for about 2 % of errors) for all the Multipsk modes (look at the chapter RX/TX modes selection and their descriptions in my help). I did not measure in fact the minimum S/B

Re: [digitalradio] Q15X25 on HF

2006-11-23 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Rick, As far as I know, there are very few specifications about Q15X25, only generalities. However, for HF, the minimum S/N is certainly too high (surely around -1 to +1 dB). 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: KV9U To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday,

Re: [digitalradio] MFSK beacon

2006-11-24 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Alves, The QRPP experiments are very interesting. It is perhaps just a bit difficult to hear you signal from over the pond due to the bad conditions (here in Paris I did not hear your signal but I have nor a good antenna nor a good location...). A beacon is particurarly interesting for

Re: [digitalradio] Re: New multimode program for Linux

2006-11-29 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Jose, I think the Multipsk version 4.1.1 can't work under Linux with ou without flute music as i used in this version a DLL to measure the CPU load. But as this DLL does not work in all XP versions and never in XP pro (why?), I've put this feature only as an option in the 4.1.2 version.

Re: [digitalradio] best mode to use for weak signal HF work and other mode discussions

2006-12-01 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Rick, If often wonder if a mode that has a very wide ability to print even if not tuned in well has to have some tradeoffs in robustness compared with critical to tune modes. Anyone have specific information about that? The ability of DominoEx to be tuned very easily is that the

Re: [digitalradio] USA: No Advanced Digital HF Data Comms

2006-12-01 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Leigh and Jose, The parameters to look for from Patrick are the RS code groups and maximum correction coefficient. It is likely that the same seed data p is used in all cases, so there is no need for a registry of data codes. (I.e., if you can decode it, you don't need to know what it

Re: [digitalradio] Tests and Europ activity in 300 bauds Packet

2006-12-12 Thread Patrick Lindecker
this? Would it be worth chosing one which we could use ? We do not have any band/baud restrictions here (Canada)for this type of transmission so could use whatever suits European stations. John VE5MU - Original Message - From: Patrick Lindecker To: digitalradio

Re: [digitalradio] Re: PTT via Commander

2006-12-13 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Andy, Just an information about Multipsk or Mixw...and Commander. The global control may be summarized according to the following diagram: MULTIPSK (DDE TX)--(DDE RX) COMMANDER--COM--CAT SYSTEM--TRANSCEIVER MULTIPSK (DDE RX)--(DDE TX) COMMANDER--COM--CAT SYSTEM--TRANSCEIVER The DDE link is

Re: [digitalradio] Re: DigiSSTV maps size

2006-12-15 Thread Patrick Lindecker
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Lindecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all, If you do Digisstv transmission you must use very small pictures, for example the Mini_Map.BMP file (in the Multipsk package) which dimensions are 80x70 pixels. To send this file

[digitalradio] New release (4.1.2) of MULTIPSK

2006-12-18 Thread Patrick Lindecker
New release (4.1.2) of MULTIPSK RX/TX: PSK10/BPSK31-63-125/QPSK31-63-125/CHIP (64/128)/PSKFEC31/PSKAM10-31-50/PSK63F - PSK220F + DIGISSTV Run/CW/CCW/CCW-FSK/THROB/THROBX/MFSK8/ MFSK16 (+ SSTV)/OLIVIA/CONTESTIA/RTTYM/VOICE/DominoF DF/DominoEX/MT63/RTTY 45/75/ RTTY 50+SYNOP+SHIP/ASCII/AMTOR FEC/

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