Thanks, In the FreeDV Activity Day Announcement can we have an alternative frequency mentioned
for "freebeacon" and perhaps to require the "trigger" string to have say "#", never found in callsigns. My "freebeacon" here has never been set to have no trigger string. But if it is triggered it's because it's received the string. That string is currently one character. (and settable on the command line) PSK Reporter =========== I don't expect my transmissions from here QF56HG to go anywhere outside Australia or New Zealand and as such I have regularly mentioned my presence on VKspotter under "HF". https://www.vkspotter.com/?action=home David here has acknowledged hearing my ident transmission so confirmed his Rx and decoding the signal, is working. That's what beacons are for. Alan VK2ZIW On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:03:50 +1100, David Grove wrote > Hi David & Mooneer > > First of all thank you to both of you for all your work in advancing > FreeDV/Codec2. Its very much appreciated > > I like the idea of having a three-monthly activity day that, where feasible, > occurs just after other major activities (Hamventions etc) > > On the activity day, I tried calling CQ on 7.177 MHz and 14.236 MHz on > several different modes from my home QTH (QRN S3-5) a few times with no > success. > > I also happened to be monitoring QSO finder when David, VK5DGR and Mel, K0PFX > were testing on 14.246 MHz. Unfortunately, nothing was heard at my end on > that frequency at the time. > > At the end of the activity day, I checked PSK reporter and was unable to find > any reports of my callsign on FreeDV > > I did however hear Alan, VK2ZIWs parrot on a couple of occasions on the day. > However, Alan is about 20 Km from me, so the 40m signal was marginal > > Nevertheless, Ill keep on trying to reduce the QRN levels at my place and > Ill keep installing the new versions of FreeDV as theyre released > > Im looking forward to the next activity day > > Thanks again > > Regards > > > David Grove VK2DWG > > -----Original Message----- > From: david <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, 22 February 2022 12:32 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Freetel-codec2] Fwd: [Announcement] FreeDV Activity Day - > February 19-20, 2022 > > > 1. It looks like May 28th-29th will be best for the next one as Dayton > > is the weekend prior and there seem to be a fair number of other > > contests across the rest of the month. Does that sound reasonable? > > Every 3 months sounds good. Like this time, I'll attempt to have a new > experimental waveform/codec to try out in May. > > > 2. If you operated this one, how did it work out for you? > > I managed to receive Mel, k0pfx long path 20M here in South Australia, 1-4dB > SNR on 700D. I positioned myself in a campground 200km SE of Adelaide > (Parnka Point, in an area known as the Coorong) with sub S0 noise on 20m. > Simple end fed dipole. > > I also monitored/took part in a few VK QSOs and was pleased to see the modems > handling the HF channel quite well. > > Pretty happy about that :-) > > Thanks for organising the event Mooneer :-) > > - David > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freetel-codec2 mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2 --------------------------------------------------- Alan VK2ZIW Before the Big Bang, God, Sela. OpenWebMail 2.53, nothing in the cloud.
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