Re: [digitalradio] Is PSK superior to Olivia?

2006-02-18 Thread Rein Couperus
PSKmail has 0% garbage, and fills in the deep qsb we have here. I have tried MFSK, but where PSK does not come through anymore, MFSK cannot do it either.I have 6 weeks experience now with a steady pskmail link to the internet via SM0RWO, 2200 km from my portable qth in Spain (fishing rod with

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Is PSK superior to Olivia?

2006-02-18 Thread Rein Couperus
Yes you can, if you use arq.Have a look at the pictures I took during an especially brutal qso session this week.The URL is http://pskmail.wikispaces.com/QRM .Downloading 1 email of 7 kB took 40 minutes. Pskmail waited for the qso to go away, or made use of the gaps between transmissions of e.g.

Re: [digitalradio] Re: QOTD

2006-02-25 Thread Rein Couperus
They could e.g. post it by using pskmail, which uses open text and sends id's every 10 minutes automatically :) - I update my blog that way... Rein EA/PA0R/P digitalradio@yahoogroups.com schrieb am 25.02.06 18:57:41: Maybe the approach at fancy (a/k/a expensive) mode use should be

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Linux Packet

2006-02-27 Thread Rein Couperus
Look also for 'Soundmodem' , a Linux soundcard modem for VHF/UHF packet. If you want soundcard ARQ capability on HF, look for http://wiki.pskmail.org 73 Rein EA/PA0R/P digitalradio@yahoogroups.com schrieb am 27.02.06 01:30:38: --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, jhaynesatalumni [EMAIL

Re: [digitalradio] ARRLWeb: Army MARS Implementing Win link 2000 with Airmail Network

2006-03-03 Thread Rein Couperus
This is definitely going to make a few people pretty rich... Too late to buy shares?. Rein EA/PA0R/P digitalradio@yahoogroups.com schrieb am 03.03.06 06:00:41: This announcement should really stir up some new rantings from the Anti-Everything Forces...

Re: [digitalradio] Cheapest foray in to Pactor

2006-03-05 Thread Rein Couperus
The cheapest way is HFTERM, a soundcard program for Linux. (Linux is free). That will give you PACTOR 1 capability for $0.00, and you can join the ranks of the other broadbanders (HFTERM can not decode PSK or other 'nice' modes, so they just butt in regardless 73, Rein, EA/PA0R/P

Re: [digitalradio] The Perfect Mode

2006-03-16 Thread Rein Couperus
PSKmail does ALL this, including message generation and management using EVOLUTION (the Linux 'Outlook' program). It does NOT run on any Microsoft operating system. It does use less bandwidth than olivia. It is being prepared for ALE (with PSK63 bandwidth). It has a symmetrical (full duplex)

Re: [digitalradio] Remote access software to help hams?

2006-05-22 Thread Rein Couperus
The software I use to remote control the PI4TUE and PA0N pskmail servers is vnc. It is available for windows as well as Linux, is foc and works fine... 73, Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 22.05.06 04:15:22 An:

Re: [digitalradio] Emission types

2006-08-07 Thread Rein Couperus
This would be quite easy to do with gmfsk.hkj.51 It features a file-based interface ('echo test gmfsk_autofile'). With an easy port redirection you are in business for tx. The same goes for rx, just tail gMFSK.log to your output port... 73, Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-

Re: [digitalradio] Emission types

2006-08-07 Thread Rein Couperus
transmission of binary data, or do they all have support for only a limited subset of octet values? Sorry if this is drifting further off topic. Darren, G0HWW On 7 Aug 2006, at 17:32, Rein Couperus wrote: This would be quite easy to do with gmfsk.hkj.51 It features a file-based

Re: [digitalradio] Emission types

2006-08-09 Thread Rein Couperus
excuse ;-) Cheers, Darren, G0HWW On 7 Aug 2006, at 17:32, Rein Couperus wrote: This would be quite easy to do with gmfsk.hkj.51 It features a file-based interface ('echo test gmfsk_autofile'). With an easy port redirection you are in business for tx. The same goes for rx

RE: [digitalradio] The digital throughput challenge on HF

2006-08-25 Thread Rein Couperus
There is always lot of emphasis on getting signals out of the noise. From my 9-months hands on experience using pskmail over a 1500 Mile path from Spain to Sweden and from Montenegro to Sweden, noise is not the problem on the amateur bands, as there is always a frequency you can use which gives

Re: [digitalradio] ARQ sound card modes

2006-09-08 Thread Rein Couperus
I have been testing MT63 heavily for quite some time for use with psmail, but PSK63 outperforms it, so I am back with PSK63. The biggest drawback (let alone the 2kHz bandwidth required) is the time it needs to gain sync. MT63 could have a life where larger blocks are sent (e.g. for PSKftp)

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARQ sound card modes

2006-09-08 Thread Rein Couperus
PSKmail also supports APRS messaging and Posit beaconing. 73, Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 08.09.06 05:38:18 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: [digitalradio] Re: ARQ sound card modes If I understood its description

Re: [digitalradio] ARQ sound card modes

2006-09-08 Thread Rein Couperus
Very important information, Rein, and thank you for sharing it with the group. This is the kind of real world information we need to hear. Considering the enormous amount of bandwidth MT-63 takes up, it would have to work several times faster and better than a narrow band mode to

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Live cd distro

2006-10-04 Thread Rein Couperus
Hello Andrea, The servers available in EU at the moment are PI4TUE (101048 kHz) and SM0RWO. The server at PA0N is not available at the moment, the OMNI VI has a faulty PLL board so we have no trx there at the moment (donations welcome :) The frequencies on the wiki are Center frequencies,

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

2006-10-13 Thread Rein Couperus
I a working on such a scheme for PSKmail, with tables of 32k standard words (1 for each language), each word huffman coded as 2-3 bytes for downloading mail over a 100 Hz link. Experiments have shown that this is the maximum compression which can be accomplished. 73, Rein PA0R By the way,

Re: [digitalradio] 3kHz or 500Hz Re: Updates on effect of FCC RO

2006-10-24 Thread Rein Couperus
There is no difference. PSKmail uses PSK63 to deliver chat mode (PSK31 speed) qso's with 0% error with its arq protocol. 73, Rein PA0R If the protocol can send the info faster than I can type, then I think it does make a difference. 73, Mark N5RFX I don't think keyboard to

Re: [digitalradio] 3kHz or 500Hz Re: Updates on effect of FCC RO

2006-10-24 Thread Rein Couperus
In order to have a really robust and accurate mode, I would like to see an ARQ mode 500 Hz or less. This would allow for a good throughput and error free data and images, etc. Consider that you can get at least four 500 Hz signals in the width of one voice signal. The 100 KHz digital/CW

Re: [digitalradio] New digital mode proposal for CW transceivers

2006-11-06 Thread Rein Couperus
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com In my research, I found a field of study called CCW (Coherent CW). This was typically 12 wpm cw that had a special starting pattern and also an idle pattern. No doubt 12 wpm was some sort of magic number that they found

Re: [digitalradio] Regional communications ?

2006-12-26 Thread Rein Couperus
For this distance you can use 80 meters day and night, and 30m during daylight. I use 10 Watts and a 4x40m horizontal loop from home, and a 7.5 m linear loaded bended vertical on the camper. This works24/24 for distances from 20-100 miles. During night hours I use the pskmail server in

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail

2007-01-12 Thread Rein Couperus
I gzipped the wiki content (9.7 MB) and sent it as attachment to both addresses.. 73, Rein PA0R PS: yes, Fldigi, PSK125 and 10 characters/second incl. arq overhead... with on-the-fly switch to PSK63 (manually for the moment). -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail

2007-01-12 Thread Rein Couperus
Oops, that produced a 'channel limit exceeded' at SMTP , so it won't arrive. I now copied the wiki archive to a USA mirror for download: http://wwns.com/tlf/pskmail_iso/pskmail_20070112.tgz (9.7 MB) Hope you can access that site... 73, Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-12 Thread Rein Couperus
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 12.01.07 17:09:44 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: RE: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia By the way, I have often wondered why the B2F binary compression system used with the Winlink 2000 system

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-12 Thread Rein Couperus
pm, Rein Couperus wrote: -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 12.01.07 17:09:44 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: RE: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia By the way, I have often wondered why the B2F binary compression

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-17 Thread Rein Couperus
further enhancements? Pskmail gets good keyboarding results even when using PSK63 ARQ , which gives you PSK31 typing speed. Rein PA0R 73, Rick, KV9U Rein Couperus wrote: Unfortunately this won't work. BZ2 compression is based on 'redundancy' in a message. There is hardly any

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL : Turning an old PC in to a Linux box?

2007-01-20 Thread Rein Couperus
I am interested in trying PSKMAIL but don't want to screw up my PCs that are using Windows XP. I have an old 500 Hz CPU PC sitting around doing nothing. What would I need to do to turn this totally in to a linux computer running PSKMAIL ? Andy K3UK Andy, First step: upgrade to

Re: [digitalradio] Re: PSKMAIL Severs for 1/21/07

2007-01-21 Thread Rein Couperus
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 21.01.07 03:27:16 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: [digitalradio] Re: PSKMAIL Severs for 1/21/07 --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I will try

Re: [digitalradio] Re: PSKMAIL : Turning an old PC in to a Linux box?

2007-01-21 Thread Rein Couperus
available. Perhaps my Macintosh classic OS background is showing here. Ralph --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rein Couperus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am interested in trying PSKMAIL but don't want to screw up my PCs that are using Windows XP. I have an old 500 Hz CPU

Re: [digitalradio] More Linux, Debian install from Windows

2007-01-31 Thread Rein Couperus
There is a windows installer for UBUNTU, which works with a loop device (a live CD on your HDD). The difference is that the Debian one makes a full dual boot system, the UBUNTU one lives in a file under windows. Removing Linux is a matter of removing the file. It is a prototype at the moment,

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Those microphone thingies in digital bands

2007-03-04 Thread Rein Couperus
Actually this is organized by the ARRL and it's called ARRL SSB DX contest. There are plans to use things called a 'telephone' for it in future, when everybody will be allowed to take part without doing an examination. Rein EA/PA0R/P Good thing we keep the WARC bands clean of these

Re: [digitalradio] 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination Info

2007-03-07 Thread Rein Couperus
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 07.03.07 19:42:54 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: Re: [digitalradio] 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination Info The only Coodination I see is WINLINK trying to grab all the available Frequencies

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Rein Couperus
We generally use 300 Hz filters for PSK125 and they are too wide. There is no substitute for good narrow Xtal filters. I don't understand how you can try to work PSK31 (50 Hz bandwidth) with a 2.7 kHz filter. That is against all logic (and math). We recommand using the narrowest filters you can

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-08 Thread Rein Couperus
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 07.03.07 22:30:55 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK Thanks, Rein, for confirming what I suspected. For a fixed frequency/mode such as pskmail, I'd have to agree

Re: [digitalradio] Re: 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination Info

2007-03-08 Thread Rein Couperus
3591.9 P3 (3590.9-3592.9kHz) WLINK2000 GERMANY 3593.5 P3 (3592.5-3594.5kHz) WLINK2000 NEDERLAND 3596.0 P3 (3595.0-3597.0kHz) WLINK2000 BELGIUM This illustrates the problem. These 3 Pactor 3 stations are within 100 km of each other. And it means they render 6 kHz of spectrum useless for other

Re: [digitalradio] Re: 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination Info

2007-03-09 Thread Rein Couperus
implementation was on Windows, Rein, and it was closed source. 73, Dave, AA6YQ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rein Couperus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The SCAMP busy detector has been around for several years. Is this available for Linux? Source code? GPL

Re: [digitalradio] Busy frequency detector (process definition).

2007-03-10 Thread Rein Couperus
General process flow for a signal detector / frequency busy detector implemented as a part of a semi-automated RF based client server message transport system. - A server (semi-automated which will respond to a request) is listening on a fixed frequency and 'sampling' a given range

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Amateur Radio in Disasters/What we really need

2007-05-09 Thread Rein Couperus
Ralph, could you elaborate on this? (if possible on the pskmail list...) so we can have a look at what's needed... What are your problems with version 0.3.0? 73, Rein PA0R My tests with PSKmail have slowed somewhat with the changeover to fldigi and the extra bells whistles that have

Re: [digitalradio] Olivia Software

2007-06-05 Thread Rein Couperus
Try Fldigi, really free. No hidden MS tax. Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 05.06.07 13:06:52 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: [digitalradio] Olivia Software Does anyone have idea how to get a free OLIVIA

Re: [digitalradio] ethernet or wireless

2007-07-14 Thread Rein Couperus
We have excellent experience with using wireless, even in high power multi/multi setups. You will get less noise. 2/5/11 MB speed is more than enough for computer control... 73, Rein PA0R (TS7N, CT9L, 5A7A) -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet:

Re: [digitalradio] AGC and Digital Modes

2007-08-01 Thread Rein Couperus
Optimal setting is AGC ON, fast, and use a filter matching the bandwidth of the signal. Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 27.07.07 21:22:04 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: [digitalradio] AGC and Digital Modes I

Re: [digitalradio] PSK31 Instant Messaging

2007-09-08 Thread Rein Couperus
Pskmail aprs does this with psk125. Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 08.09.07 01:10:38 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: [digitalradio] PSK31 Instant Messaging The title of Leigh's presentation gave me an idea.

[digitalradio] pskmail_puppy for windows

2007-09-09 Thread Rein Couperus
There is now a pskmail/fldigi version which will run INSIDE windows XP(tm), using an embedded QEMU emulator. The effort is now reduced to downloading http://sharon.esrac.ele.tue.nl/pub/linux/ham/pskmail/windows/pskmail_puppy_beta8.zip, unzipping it in your C:\ drive, and clicking a few icons.

Re: [digitalradio] pskmail_puppy for windows

2007-09-09 Thread Rein Couperus
from the same boot disc (or the partition on my HD). On 9/9/07, Rein Couperus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is now a pskmail/fldigi version which will run INSIDE windows XP(tm), using an embedded QEMU emulator. The effort is now reduced to downloading http://sharon.esrac.ele.tue.nl

Re: [digitalradio] pskmail_puppy for windows

2007-09-09 Thread Rein Couperus
Vesa works here, Xorg has a problem. 1024x768 is a good resolution. Rein PA0R The first Windows test stalled after I selected the video option (ORG). The ISO CD boots just fine and wirks OK with my hardware. Maybe I will try vesa Announce your digital presence via our Interactive

Re: [digitalradio] pskmail_puppy for windows

2007-09-09 Thread Rein Couperus
Can VESA support wide resolution monitors? I can not get either Xorg or VESA to run X properly on my 22 Samsung 225BW monitor, but it can be used good enough to get by in testing things. The big problem is that I have found no way to get the rig control software to work. This must

Re: [digitalradio] pskmail_puppy for windows

2007-09-09 Thread Rein Couperus
Yep, Vesa is fine here too but just 2Megs of RAM left when the Linux desktop is booted on my 512 Ram PC. The desktop icons are over lapping and I can not see all, is there one for PSKMAIL? Andy, Yes, there are ICONs for pskmail, fldigi and the email client at the top of the screen.

Re: [digitalradio] pskmail_puppy for windows

2007-09-09 Thread Rein Couperus
to me that you would need to install the program to do that and could not use the disk in a live form. If you use the Mandriva Live version, is the rig control software on the Live disk and fully operational? Is there anyone who can confirm that this works? 73, Rick, KV9U Rein

Re: [digitalradio] Pskmail............... lack of stations

2007-09-10 Thread Rein Couperus
The timing is completely different. Pactor sends 1 block at the time, pskmail bundles 8 blocks in a frame, resulting in a lot less turnaround. Block length is adaptive and changes with channel quality. Amtor was 45 Bd ARQ. Pskmail is 125 Bd ARQ. Pskmail is slower than a 1k2 Bd TNC, but it takes a

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail save session to CD?

2007-09-10 Thread Rein Couperus
The key is that you need a CD which is 'unfinished'. I have not tried this, but you could take a look at the puppy linux wiki. They claim you can even save on the CD you boot from, provided it is unfinished. Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com

Re: [digitalradio] Pskmail............... lack of stations

2007-09-11 Thread Rein Couperus
PSKMail uses PSK125 ot PSK63 so it does not use ARQ. Pskmail uses arq on top of psk125. Rein PA0R Announce your digital presence via our Interactive Sked Page at http://www.obriensweb.com/drsked/drsked.php Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to:

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail save session to CD?

2007-09-11 Thread Rein Couperus
to learn what an unfished CD is Andy K3UK www.obriensweb.com (QSL via N2RJ) On 9/11/07, Rein Couperus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The key is that you need a CD which is 'unfinished'. I have not tried this, but you could take a look at the puppy linux wiki. They claim you can even save

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail save session to CD?

2007-09-12 Thread Rein Couperus
are mainly used for data, as music readers will get confused with such a disk. Jose, CO2JA -= Andrew O'Brien wrote: I guess I need to learn what an unfished CD is Andy K3UK www.obriensweb.com (QSL via N2RJ) On 9/11/07, Rein Couperus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The key

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Non mailbox use of pactor ?

2007-09-20 Thread Rein Couperus
Everything is relative . I have 13589 CW, 387 PSK125 and zero pactor for the last 13976 qsos. Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 20.09.07 17:54:00 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: Re: [digitalradio] Re: Non mailbox use of

Re: [digitalradio] Modes the work with SSB splatter

2007-10-22 Thread Rein Couperus
When I am camping in the south of Spain through the winter, every sunday morning our 30m pskmail link to Sweden is covered up by splatter from french SSB stations. Pskmail makes use of the gaps in the conversation (there are weak and strong stations in the round) and delivers the information.

Re: [digitalradio] Ignoring Other Modes and Language s Re:SSB splatter

2007-10-22 Thread Rein Couperus
Rein PA0R wrote When I am camping in the south of Spain through the winter, every sunday morning our our 30m pskmail link to Sweden is covered up by splatter from french SSB stations. Pskmail makes use of the gaps in the conversation Hi Rein, I am curious about the splatter.

Re: [digitalradio] 30m 2.8KHz wide digital signal QRM

2007-10-23 Thread Rein Couperus
I have only heard the OTH radar for a few hours, but that was S8 and 30 kHz wide... Did you tune the band? Fortunately 17m was open. Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 23.10.07 17:13:50 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff:

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

2007-10-28 Thread Rein Couperus
Or do they use a 3000 Hz BW for testing purposes and compare modes that way? Yes to compare. For example, I want to compare modes at S/N=-10 dB: I send a a signal of 1 mWatt and 10 mW of noise in 3KHz (so 3.33 mW per KHz). Now among this noise you can send your 1 mWatt signal in the way

Re: [digitalradio] Encomm error loading CD

2007-10-28 Thread Rein Couperus
Try to boot with puppy pfix=ram to be sure you boot only the CD, not stuff you saved before... For md5sum on windows see http://www.fastsum.com/ Rein Pa0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 28.10.07 21:48:13 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com

Re: [digitalradio] Re: VHF digital setup

2007-11-08 Thread Rein Couperus
Take a look at the new pskmail_puppy live CD, now featuring full PSK250 support. It is a progam suite including fldigi, flarq, pskmail server and client, with embedded linux. http://sharon.esrac.ele.tue.nl/pub/linux/ham/pskmail/puppy Now also as application running under windows:

Re: [digitalradio] Remote Access Desktop, and remote d igital operation

2007-12-07 Thread Rein Couperus
I control 3 PC's running pskmail servers via the internet using various flavours of vnc. .(X11vnc, RealVNC) It is only a matter of freeing the right ports in your firewall. Works for windows as well as Linux and Mac OS. There is even a Java web browser solution using port

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2007-12-30 Thread Rein Couperus
If you have a windows XP machine with 512 MB RAM you may want to try the windows version of the pskmail client. The puppy Linux image runs inside windows and is just 256 MB, so it runs entirely in RAM. As it uses QEMU not every soundcard is supported, only the VESA server works. But you don't

Re: [digitalradio] Licensing of Pactor modes - Source code and detailed specifications

2007-12-31 Thread Rein Couperus
There is so much work involved in writing a fool-proof program with a good user interface that having to also write the encoding / decoding interface would make sure projects unfeasible for a single programmer who codes in his spare time. Simon HB9DRV I can second that :) Rein

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2008-01-01 Thread Rein Couperus
Technically not a big deal indeed. But we are still talking about a few months of spare time :) I will think about it. It might even bring some new life to the packet network. Where I live it is a dying sport. Traffic on our local node (PI1EHV) has gone down to some 10% of what it was...

Re: [digitalradio] Re: PSKmail

2008-01-02 Thread Rein Couperus
Flarq is based on pskmail but is not completely compatible. If there is enough interest I could think of generating a C++ class for pskmail, that would also make it a bit faster :) Would take some time though. 73, Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:

Re: [digitalradio] Re: NBEMS testing

2008-01-04 Thread Rein Couperus
So far I am very impressed with NBEMS's performance..especially considering it was not meant for non-NVIS HF pathsfor non-NVIS HF paths you might consider lowering the FLARQ exponent parameter to 2 or 3it shortens frame length and makes for less re-tries. Don't make the block

Re: [digitalradio] NBEMS/Flarq Frequencies

2008-01-05 Thread Rein Couperus
Being so close to another net frequency is not going to work unless you provide a proper filter. Using flarq efficiently you need to * use a 500 Hz filter or better * use a distance of 500 Hz. We have tried to put 2 pskmail servers on a 250 Hz distance but they qrm'ed each other in such a way

Re: [digitalradio] PSK250

2008-01-05 Thread Rein Couperus
Most pskmail servers have switched from PSK63 to PSK250, the effective baud rate is 8x the rate of PSK31. 73, Rein Pa0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 05.01.08 05:21:14 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: [digitalradio] PSK250

Re: [digitalradio] NBEMS experience today

2008-01-07 Thread Rein Couperus
Most of your questions are answered here: http://pskmail.wikispaces.com/PSK_arq 73, Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 07.01.08 02:37:18 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [digitalradio] NBEMS experience today Several of us

Re: [digitalradio] A weekend of NBEMS: Some questions.

2008-01-07 Thread Rein Couperus
Wrong again... * Every pskmail server has a local mailbox, so you can operate it without the internet connection. E,g, in some countries it is still forbidden to connect a radio to the internet, those are the countries which allow SSB on 30 mtrs by the way. For them the local mbox is the only

Re: [digitalradio] A weekend of NBEMS: Some questions. now PSKmail!

2008-01-07 Thread Rein Couperus
Jack, yes, pskmail will work with PSK31 as well, in fact it will work with any mode that transports the complete set of ASCII characters (I am working on incorporating RTTY as well). But you will find PSK63 almost as good as PSK31, and a bit less sensitive to frequency stability. I am sure

Re: [digitalradio] A weekend of NBEMS: Some questions. now PSKmail!

2008-01-07 Thread Rein Couperus
windows software ; vbdigi.exe / flarq.exe compatible with your pskmail system ? 73 de LA5VNA Steinar Rein Couperus skrev: Jack, yes, pskmail will work with PSK31 as well, in fact it will work with any mode that transports the complete set of ASCII characters (I am working

Re: [digitalradio] For the HF Packet Baggers out there :-)

2008-01-07 Thread Rein Couperus
2 Watts on 28148 http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/raw.cgi?call=PA0R Rein -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 07.01.08 12:24:44 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: [digitalradio] For the HF Packet Baggers out there :-) The statistics say it

Re: [digitalradio] Some thoughts on antenna polarizati on for emergency use

2008-02-29 Thread Rein Couperus
For a 20 Mile path to the server I use 28 MHz ground wave, works with 5 Watts pskmail day and night. That is with PSK 250. The server has a horizontal dipole on the roof of a 65 meters high building. When I am at our contest location in Germany, 100 Miles away, I use 80 meters NVIS with 80

Re: [digitalradio] Some success with PSKmail

2008-03-02 Thread Rein Couperus
For people who don't want the 'hassle' of installing some perl modules via CPAN there are 2 possibilities: * Run pskmail and fldigi from the pskmail_puppy live CD. It boots in 45 seconds the second time if you save some files on your C drive after first use. This will give you fldigi 2.09 and

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Keeping NBEMS in mind

2008-03-02 Thread Rein Couperus
All high-latency modes are unsuitable for ARQ. A persistent misconception is that you would be using signals near the noise level. As I have stated many times, noise is hardly ever the problem unless it is S8. The problem is multi-path causing QSB (up to 80 dB on path we are using) and QRM from

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Keeping NBEMS in mind

2008-03-02 Thread Rein Couperus
I earlier mentioned ARQ in real time, but if you use the programming technique that KN6KB used when he developed SCAMP, (Sound Card Amateur Messaging Protocol), he used RDFT. While this was not practical to decode during each cycle, he was able to work in the background with the past

Re: [digitalradio] 10 Tips for the PSK31 Digital Mode

2008-03-12 Thread Rein Couperus
Enable your RF attenuation and increase the volume. This can help keep a strong signal from wiping out the weaker ones. Attenuation will probably be around 20 dB, but by dropping the noise level, the signal readability may improve. AGC (Automatic Gain Control) does nothing for a weak signal;

Re: [digitalradio] 10 Tips for the PSK31 Digital Mode

2008-03-12 Thread Rein Couperus
Control) does nothing for a weak signal; it only levels the louder ones. Rein Couperus wrote: This is a fairly stupid advice, and if you follow it you will miss about 50% of the fun. I am afraid that such a phrase is too strong... First thing to do of course is make sure

Re: [digitalradio] Re: 10 Tips for the PSK31 Digital Mode

2008-03-12 Thread Rein Couperus
Frank, 500 Hz is already a nice improvement with respect to 2.5 kHz.. While on the subject of filters, my current setup allows me to narrow my SSB signal down to 500 Hz. Maxed out, the pass band is about 2.7 kHz, (3.6 on CW Wide.) I have no optional filters installed, so I've been thinking

Re: [digitalradio] PropNet and JT65 frequencies

2008-03-12 Thread Rein Couperus
Warning: DXpeditions have a lifetime of average 1 week, they send there 'clients' where they find a quiet spot. The next one will find you. 73, Rein EA/PA0R/P Hi Sholto, During DXpeditions, it seems that split frequency operators were telling people to listen in the same segment

Re: [digitalradio] Does K2 work OK for wider digital modes?

2008-03-13 Thread Rein Couperus
Rick, the K2 works ok for the wider modes, with the SSB module built in. I have used it e.g. for MT63 2k, and it worked fine. You do need the modification which temperature-compensates the vfo. MFSK16 is no problem with the K2, I have used it succesfully with gMFSK. I bought the FT897D, which

Re: [digitalradio] VOX not for ARQ modes

2008-08-26 Thread Rein Couperus
There is one exception to the rule. Pskmail arq works perfectly with vox. Just a matter of optimizing the protocol to fit common hardware instead of the reverse... The trick (thanks K9PS) is to send up to 512 bytes of data in a frame and allow some more time for the switchovers. 73, Rein

Re: [digitalradio] Active PSKMAIL ?

2008-09-16 Thread Rein Couperus
http://hermes.esrac.ele.tue.nl/maps/pskmailers.php The blue markers are servers, the red ones clients. Contact to the sysops via the mailing list: http://pskmail.wikispaces.com/Mailing+list 73, Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Russell Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet:

Re: [digitalradio] No More Soundcards

2008-09-18 Thread Rein Couperus
This means flexibility is gone unless the rig dsp software is open source and programmable? Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Simon Brown \(KNS\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: 18.09.08 14:15:34 An: digitalradio digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: [digitalradio] No More

Re: [digitalradio] Active PSKMAIL ?

2008-09-19 Thread Rein Couperus
Makes a lot of sense Hal... You find the frequency/mode table at: http://pskmail.wikispaces.com/PSKmailservers All frequencies in that table are center frequencies, i.e. VFO + 1000 Hz if your sweet spot is 1000 Hz. Here is an excerpt, the sacanning frequencies are at the bottom (minutes

Re: [digitalradio] microHAM not compatible with Linux?

2008-09-23 Thread Rein Couperus
I was the guy asking for documentation (hi). Sorry but no time at the moment. You may want to take a look at my winkey driver (which is the K1EL CW chip in the microHAM keyer). The Linux winkey driver is compatible with cwdaemon which does CW and PTT, and is a perl script running in user

Re: [digitalradio] How to increase the solar flux

2008-09-23 Thread Rein Couperus
OK, I applied it to my CW keyer, and the first station i worked was YB0RFG. Amazing stuff.. Rein -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: 23.09.08 13:23:35 An: DIGITALRADIO digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: [digitalradio] How to increase the

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail2.0 Client and Slackware12.1??

2008-09-25 Thread Rein Couperus
Greetings and thank you.. Cpan came to the rescue as far as getting everything working but I have another problem in that I can't use fldigi3.0 or 3.02 or 3.03 and PSKMail1.0.. What exactly is the problem Hal? What do you mean, 'can't use'? Rather than a long winded

Re: [digitalradio] 30M

2008-09-27 Thread Rein Couperus
You may be able to hear the pskmail servers on 10148.0 kHz.. Best time is around 6:00 UTC, Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: 27.09.08 00:15:35 An: DIGITALRADIO digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: [digitalradio] 30M Just a

Re: [digitalradio] THOR robustness or lack of thereof

2008-10-14 Thread Rein Couperus
I have tested THOR22 extensively with PSKmail the past weeks, comparing it to PSK250. It has shown that when PSK250 does not work anymore THOR22 is an excellent replacement. The idea is that when the channel goes so bad that arq with PSK250 slows down to a factor of 4 (PSK63 speed) it is

Re: [digitalradio] RFSM file transfer

2008-10-14 Thread Rein Couperus
For broadband transfers you need to go above 3.600 in EU, where the pactor 3 stations are 3588 is not according to the IARU band plan. 73, Rein PA0R. Hi Matthew In Europe there is some activity around 3588 @ 20:00 UTC 73 de LA5VNA Steinar -- http://pa0r.blogspirit.com

Re: [digitalradio] Emcomm Message Notification Routing Networking Re: Push Messages to the Field

2008-12-03 Thread Rein Couperus
I will elaborate on this as soon as a get home from our cqww-cw location, packing now... Rein CT3/PA0R/P, CT9L -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: expeditionradio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: 03.12.08 07:21:45 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: [digitalradio] Emcomm Message

RE: [digitalradio] Q25 QSO's

2009-02-10 Thread Rein Couperus
You just described the reason for development of pskmail with PSK250+arq... Rein PA0R seems to need a perfect signal to work, and when was the last time you saw a perfect signal? John VE5MU -- http://pa0r.blogspirit.com Announce your digital

[digitalradio] jpskmail client for windows and linux adds HF APRS and ARQ to Fldigi

2009-03-21 Thread Rein Couperus
Here is a new and very much improved version of the java pskmail client The client was completely rewritten in java in a team effort by SM0RWO and PA0R. PSKmail adds APRS and ARQ capability to Fldigi 3.10, and uses several digital modes depending on band conditions: PSK63, PSK125, PSK250, THOR22,

Re: [digitalradio] jpskmail client for windows and lin ux adds HF APRS and ARQ to Fldigi

2009-03-21 Thread Rein Couperus
That is correct, linkto = DK4XI-2. QSY means you can ask the server to go to a traffic frequency, which is normally 500 Hz higher than the APRS frequency. Used here in EU on 10148.5 73, Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Andy obrien k3uka...@gmail.com Gesendet: 21.03.09

Re: [digitalradio] jpskmail client for windows and lin ux adds HF APRS and ARQ to Fldigi

2009-03-21 Thread Rein Couperus
You can send a mode command to fldigi from the jpskmail client. - Mode menu. Default is PSK250. Actually, in the original perl client for linux you can ask the server to change the mode once you are connected. This has not yet been implemented in the java client. Rein PA0R

Re: [digitalradio] jpskmail client for windows and lin ux adds HF APRS and ARQ to Fldigi

2009-03-21 Thread Rein Couperus
You can have a look at where the servers are at http://hermes.esrac.ele.tue.nl/maps/pskmailers.php The blue blips are the servers. Rein PA0R I guess I will wait for conditions favourable to connect to a server, 20M seems like my best bet this morning. -- http://pa0r.blogspirit.com

Re: [digitalradio] AFC in FL-Digi

2009-03-22 Thread Rein Couperus
We use search acquisition range of 40Hz , and 6dB for PSK250. That will solve your problem. AFC should be on on. Sweet spot wherever your filter sweet spot is. E.g. to use the DSP on a IC756 we use 1500, default is 1000 Hz. Use a 300 Hz filter if possible. Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL --- Gmail?

2009-03-22 Thread Rein Couperus
The servers communicate with gmail using TLS. For a gmail address the pop user id must be set to addr...@gmail.com, pop host is pop.gmail.com 73, Rein PA0R -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Andrew O'Brien k3uka...@gmail.com Gesendet: 22.03.09 01:20:23 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com

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