Thanks for the suggestion Dave and I'm glad you liked my "modest proposal."
In fact I have an XSLT transformation I can apply to weather.com which is invoked via a command-line macro which inserts the current temperature from weather.com, so when people ask for WX that's what I give. Of course, you're right that QRZ.com should be providing the lookup service for people's macro definitions. That way when you settle in to use a new digimode program at the club station, you can get your macros loaded; and conversely, it can just send ^BRAG and the RX station can look it all up on QRZ.com to find the definitions. But why stop there, as you say? I'm reasonably sure someone's already done this (from the scores I see in the contest logs) but it should be possible to totally automate the RTTY contests. With wide-band SDR receivers (and transmitters for that matter) it ought to be possible to work the whole contest automatically. This same concept could easily be extended to macro-based ragchewing popular on PSK, with the digimode programs automatically doing search-and-pounce, macro exchange, and LoTW or eQSL QSLing. The mind boggles! Leigh/WA5ZNU Dave Bernstein wrote: > Why stop there, Leigh? With the use of QRZ.com and weather.com to > independently determine name, QTH, and weather conditions, you could > encode many QSOs into a pair of callsigns plus one byte. > > 73, > > Dave, AA6YQ > > --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Leigh L Klotz, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Here's a modest proposal: compress most of the QSO the way the >> moonbounce modes do, by knowing what is expected at that point and >> expressing it in a few bits. For PSK, we could just standardize on >> macro names for a few things and the two modems can negotiate about >> whether to expand them on TX or RX. >> >> Instead of sending "Your RST is 599" when the macro is RST the TX >> > could > >> just send "^RST" and the RX modem can expand this into "Your RST is >> 599." And if you send "^STATION ^BRAG" the RX program can just >> > print > >> "OM sent you a big list of his computer equipment." >> >> This might also eliminate a lot of the uppercase text as well... >> >> Leigh/WA5ZNU >> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 1:02 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 > >>>> system >>>> used with the Winlink 2000 system has never been used for >>>> > nearly a 2:1 > >>>> compression for improved throughput. This could be applied to >>>> > any > >>>> system, including keyboarding. >>>> >>>> 73, >>>> >>>> Rick, KV9U >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Unfortunately this won't work. BZ2 compression is based >>> > on 'redundancy' > >>> in a message. There is hardly any redundancy in short messages as >>> > used > >>> in k-to-k. >>> >>> The only way you can do that is by using context-based >>> > compression, > >>> like the 'context based huffman' compression in pskmail, which >>> > reaches > >>> compression factors of 1 ... 50 : 1. >>> >>> Rein PA0R >>> >>> (by the way, it is open source). >>> >>> -- >>> http://pa0r.blogspirit.com >>> >>> >>> >>> Announce your digital presence via our DX Cluster >>> telnet://cluster.dynalias.org >>> >>> Our other groups: >>> >>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlist/ >>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup >>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contesting >>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnyar >>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Omnibus97 >>> >>> >>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>> >>> >>> >>> http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ >>> > > > > > > Announce your digital presence via our DX Cluster > telnet://cluster.dynalias.org > > Our other groups: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlist/ > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contesting > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnyar > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Omnibus97 > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
