I must be doing one (or more) things wrong with trying to get the 141A mode to work with Multipsk. I saw K8KHW frequently on the FRM: box and tried calling but no luck. I came back at one time and only got one line of text, even though hearing a lot of ALE sounds, and it mentioned that my call was detected by they could not connect to me.
Even reading over Patrick's explanation of the mode(s) I get a bit confused as to where do you enter the call of the station you want to connect with. Do you have to put it in the options | Callsigns boxes? Do you use the "normal" Call box above the RS ID area for certain applications for 141A or do you not put anything in there? I had a contact with a local ham a few months ago using the ARQ FAE mode and although it was not robust enough to work well with an 8 pm local time contact on 75 meters (about 20-25 miles), it did work for a short time until the band lengthened. But I can not remember how I set up the contact. It seems to me that these modes should work more like connected packet radio works. A few simple commands, and then also could work as a BBS too. That always seemed to make sense to me in the "old" days. 73, Rick, KV9U Randy wrote: > > We tried connecting to digitalradio last night on skype and > found the group but could not get connected > > > Randy k8khw > >
