1. Make sure you are putting out a pure signal. Don't overdrive the rig (make sure ALC is showing 0) and check the output of your soundcard on an oscilloscope. Have your software generate a sine wave and make sure it looks like one on the scope. "Stairsteps", excessive FM or sawtooth/triangle-like waveforms mean your signal will probably not be decodable, and may even trash the band for others. Sometimes decreasing (or increasing) the audio volume can clean up a bad output.
2. Don't type in all caps. This slows down your transmission, makes it more prone to errors, and is just annoying. 3. There is more to HF digital operation than PSK31. Tune a little above the PSK activity and call with Hell or MFSK16. You can use the sked page to arrange experiments with new or more esoteric modes. -Joe, N8FQ On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:38:59 -0000 "Andrew O'Brien" <k3uka...@gmail.com> wrote: > Usually , every week,we get at least one new member that indicates they are > new to PSK. So, what advice would you give to those hams that are about to > embark on the digital frontier ? Your top three things ??
