[digitalradio] Re: PSK63 activity!

2007-11-18 Thread Robert Chudek
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of "John Becker, WØJAB"
> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 9:11 PM
> To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [digitalradio] PSK63 activity!
> 
> 
> At 08:00 PM 11/18/2007, you wrote:
> >It is not like adding CW to a phone contest because both RTTY and 
PSK63 are
> 
> >keyboard modes. Phone and CW are not.
> 
> Well just add the rest of the keyboard modes while your at it...
> And please make sure you do add both the keyboard mode of Amtor
> and Pactor.
> 
> I still fail to see why psk should be added to a RTTY contest.
> 
> 
> 
> Possibly for the same reason that they started allowing horseless 
carriages
> on the same streets as horses.
>
-

Yes, of course the older technology was displaced by the horseless 
carriage. However, when it comes to contesting, the horse tracks 
continue to support a sizeable following and they don't mix the two 
technologies during the races.






RE: [digitalradio] PSK63 activity!

2007-11-18 Thread Rud Merriam
More akin to an AM contest of the 60s including SSB to encourage it.

RTTY is an older digital mode. It _should_ be replaced by the newer narrow
band mode just as SSB replaced AM, and for the same reasons. Equivalent
performance with improved RF usage, mainly bandwidth. 

 
Rud Merriam K5RUD 
ARES AEC Montgomery County, TX
http://TheHamNetwork.net


-Original Message-
From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of "John Becker, WØJAB"
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 7:21 PM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] PSK63 activity!


At 07:10 PM 11/18/2007, you wrote:
>Yes, it is very gratifying to see it finally take off a little. Now, if 
>we
>can only convince the RTTY contest sponsers to specifically include and 
>mention PSK63, 

Skip with all due respect. why ?
It's not RTTY. Would this not be like adding CW to a side band contest? Or
vice verse.

John, W0JAB







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RE: [digitalradio] PSK63 activity!

2007-11-18 Thread dalite01

-Original Message-
From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of "John Becker, WØJAB"
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 9:11 PM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] PSK63 activity!


At 08:00 PM 11/18/2007, you wrote:
>It is not like adding CW to a phone contest because both RTTY and PSK63 are

>keyboard modes. Phone and CW are not.

Well just add the rest of the keyboard modes while your at it...
And please make sure you do add both the keyboard mode of Amtor
and Pactor.

I still fail to see why psk should be added to a RTTY contest.



Possibly for the same reason that they started allowing horseless carriages
on the same streets as horses.





Re: [digitalradio] PSK63 activity!

2007-11-18 Thread John Becker, WØJAB
Roger
regardless of what you think about Amtor and Pactor -
both are still doing very well. Other then a hand full of 
CW and SSB QSO's the log book is full of both Amtor 
and Pactor 1, 2 and 3.

John, W0JAB


At 08:16 PM 11/18/2007, you wrote:
>John Becker, WØJAB wrote:
>
>Ten extra points for using a time machine, because that is what you'll 
>need to work anyone on these modes.





































Re: [digitalradio] PSK63 activity!

2007-11-18 Thread Roger J. Buffington
John Becker, WØJAB wrote:

>  Well just add the rest of the keyboard modes while your at it...

Great idea!  With mode multipliers.

>And
>  please make sure you do add both the keyboard mode of Amtor and
>  Pactor.

Ten extra points for using a time machine, because that is what you'll 
need to work anyone on these modes.

de Roger W6VZV




Re: [digitalradio] PSK63 activity!

2007-11-18 Thread John Becker, WØJAB
At 08:00 PM 11/18/2007, you wrote:
>It is not like adding CW to a phone contest because both RTTY and PSK63 are 
>keyboard modes. Phone and CW are not.

Well just add the rest of the keyboard modes while your at it...
And please make sure you do add both the keyboard mode of Amtor
and Pactor.

I still fail to see why psk should be added to a RTTY contest.






Re: [digitalradio] PSK63 activity!

2007-11-18 Thread kh6ty
Because it does a better job than rtty (less fills) in less space. If 
everyone used PSK63 instead of RTTY, there would not be so many complaints 
by non-contesters about having so little space to use during contests. A 
PSK63 stations signal, operated linearly, takes up only 1/5 the space of a 
RTTY signal.

Isn't accomplishing the same job in less bandwidth what we should all be 
trying to do in an ever more crowded world?

It is not like adding CW to a phone contest because both RTTY and PSK63 are 
keyboard modes. Phone and CW are not.

73, Skip
KH6TY

- Original Message - 
From: ""John Becker, WØJAB"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] PSK63 activity!


> At 07:10 PM 11/18/2007, you wrote:
>>Yes, it is very gratifying to see it finally take off a little. Now, if we
>>can only convince the RTTY contest sponsers to specifically include and
>>mention PSK63,
>
> Skip with all due respect. why ?
> It's not RTTY. Would this not be like adding CW to a side band contest?
> Or vice verse.
>
> John, W0JAB
>
>
>
>
>
>





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Re: [digitalradio] PSK63 activity!

2007-11-18 Thread John Becker, WØJAB
At 07:10 PM 11/18/2007, you wrote:
>Yes, it is very gratifying to see it finally take off a little. Now, if we 
>can only convince the RTTY contest sponsers to specifically include and 
>mention PSK63, 

Skip with all due respect. why ?
It's not RTTY. Would this not be like adding CW to a side band contest?
Or vice verse.

John, W0JAB







Re: [digitalradio] PSK63 activity!

2007-11-18 Thread kh6ty
Yes, it is very gratifying to see it finally take off a little. Now, if we 
can only convince the RTTY contest sponsers to specifically include and 
mention PSK63, or hopefully even give it a multiplier to encourge folks to 
try it...

What I noticed is that the turnover speed rivaled RTTY, with exchanges so 
fast that simultaneous multichannel decoding and display was almost 
essential to see who to call. Of course, it is the narrow bandwidth of PSK63 
that makes that possible.

Maybe a similar American-sponsored PSK63 QSO Party would bring out more 
stateside stations.

Many thanks to Andy for helping launch PSK63!

73, Skip
KH6TY


- Original Message - 
From: "Andrew O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "DIGITALRADIO" 
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 7:10 PM
Subject: [digitalradio] PSK63 activity!


>I assume that Skip will be happy.  His PSK63 efforts appear to be
> paying off, the activity in this year's EPSK PSK63 QSO Party was quite
> high.  At one time, I counted 15 simeukatenous QSO's in my 20M
> waterfall.  Again, European activity seemed quite high compared to
> North American.  I saw no Asian or South Pacific stations but did see
> reports of some ANZAC activity.
>
> FYI, here are a few of the stations my antenna captured...(not worked)
>
>
>
> N3WT   United States  14,073.1  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 18:19K3UK   PSK63 36
> K6MKF  United States  14,073.7  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 18:26K3UK   PSK63 34
> K7RE   United States  14,072.6  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 18:27K3UK   PSK63 44
> K0SZ   United States  14,075.3  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 17:59K3UK   PSK63 50
> CT3EE  Madeira Island 14,074.1  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 17:28K3UK   PSK63 50
> N5ARA  United States  14,072.4  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 18:58K3UK   PSK63 39
> AC5ZS  United States  14,073.3  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 19:06K3UK   PSK63 12
> KF2GQ  United States  14,073.6  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 19:13K3UK   PSK63 46
> W6LED  United States  14,075.1  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 18:30K3UK   PSK63 24
> NC5O/QPR/5WUnited States  14,073.6  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 19:19K3UK   PSK63 36
> VA7KOJ Canada 14,075.5  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 18:16K3UK   PSK63 0
> J39BS  Grenada14,073.6  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 19:12K3UK   PSK63 38
> N5PU   United States  14,075.1  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 18:46K3UK   PSK63 51
> VE9DX  Canada  7,038.8  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 19:26K3UK   PSK63 56
> SP7IIT Poland  7,037.7  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 19:27K3UK   PSK63 7
> KF3AA  United States   7,037.5  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 19:31K3UK   PSK63 44
> S51MA  Slovenia7,037.3  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 19:47K3UK   PSK63 6
> CT4DK  Portugal7,038.4  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 19:47K3UK   PSK63 38
> AO1OS  Spain   7,039.2  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 19:53K3UK   PSK63 37
> OK1VSL Czech Republic  7,038.8  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 19:47K3UK   PSK63 42
> ON8UM  Belgium 7,037.7  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 20:00K3UK   PSK63 47
> CT3Madeira Island  7,038.8  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 20:09K3UK   PSK63 38
> CN8YZ  Morocco 7,038.3  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 19:59K3UK   PSK63 43
> DK8VQ  Germany 7,037.9  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 20:17K3UK   PSK63 30
> CT3BD  Madeira Island  7,038.8  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 19:45K3UK   PSK63 38
> G4KMH  England 7,038.5  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 20:19K3UK   PSK63 40
> CN8KD  Morocco 7,038.1  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 19:49K3UK   PSK63 0
> OP3A   Belgium 7,039.2  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 20:19K3UK   PSK63 16
> WP3UX  Puerto Rico 7,036.6  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 19:58K3UK   PSK63 37
> RU3QR  European Russia 7,038.5  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 20:25K3UK   PSK63 44
> N9FTC/4United States  14,074.7  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 20:26K3UK   PSK63 40
> W5VGR  United States  14,074.4  PSK63
> 2007-18-11 20:28K3UK   PSK63 24
> W1MNY  United States  14,074.7  PSK63
> 2007-1

Re: [digitalradio] PSK63 activity!

2007-11-18 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Mode, and signal strength.

On Nov 18, 2007 7:30 PM, "John Becker, WØJAB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  At 06:10 PM 11/18/2007, you wrote:
>
>
> N3WT   United States  14,073.1  PSK63
>  2007-18-11 18:19K3UK   PSK63 36
>  K6MKF  United States  14,073.7  PSK63
>  2007-18-11 18:26K3UK   PSK63 34
>  K7RE   United States  14,072.6  PSK63
>  2007-18-11 18:27K3UK   PSK63 44
>  K0SZ   United States  14,075.3  PSK63
>  2007-18-11 17:59K3UK   PSK63 50
>
>  OK for all us none sound card operators, what's the difference between all
>  the stuff in blue.
>  Or dose one need to know the secret hand shake and
>  password first?
>
>
>
>  



-- 
Andy K3UK
www.obriensweb.com
(QSL via N2RJ)


Re: [digitalradio] PSK63 activity!

2007-11-18 Thread John Becker, WØJAB
At 06:10 PM 11/18/2007, you wrote:

>N3WT   United States  14,073.1  PSK63
>2007-18-11 18:19K3UK   PSK63 36
>K6MKF  United States  14,073.7  PSK63
>2007-18-11 18:26K3UK   PSK63 34
>K7RE   United States  14,072.6  PSK63
>2007-18-11 18:27K3UK   PSK63 44
>K0SZ   United States  14,075.3  PSK63
>2007-18-11 17:59K3UK   PSK63 50


OK for all us none sound card operators, what's the difference between all
the stuff in blue. 
Or dose one need to know the secret hand shake and 
password first?





[digitalradio] PSK63 activity!

2007-11-18 Thread Andrew O'Brien
I assume that Skip will be happy.  His PSK63 efforts appear to be
paying off, the activity in this year's EPSK PSK63 QSO Party was quite
high.  At one time, I counted 15 simeukatenous QSO's in my 20M
waterfall.  Again, European activity seemed quite high compared to
North American.  I saw no Asian or South Pacific stations but did see
reports of some ANZAC activity.

FYI, here are a few of the stations my antenna captured...(not worked)



N3WT   United States  14,073.1  PSK63
2007-18-11 18:19K3UK   PSK63 36
K6MKF  United States  14,073.7  PSK63
2007-18-11 18:26K3UK   PSK63 34
K7RE   United States  14,072.6  PSK63
2007-18-11 18:27K3UK   PSK63 44
K0SZ   United States  14,075.3  PSK63
2007-18-11 17:59K3UK   PSK63 50
CT3EE  Madeira Island 14,074.1  PSK63
2007-18-11 17:28K3UK   PSK63 50
N5ARA  United States  14,072.4  PSK63
2007-18-11 18:58K3UK   PSK63 39
AC5ZS  United States  14,073.3  PSK63
2007-18-11 19:06K3UK   PSK63 12
KF2GQ  United States  14,073.6  PSK63
2007-18-11 19:13K3UK   PSK63 46
W6LED  United States  14,075.1  PSK63
2007-18-11 18:30K3UK   PSK63 24
NC5O/QPR/5WUnited States  14,073.6  PSK63
2007-18-11 19:19K3UK   PSK63 36
VA7KOJ Canada 14,075.5  PSK63
2007-18-11 18:16K3UK   PSK63 0
J39BS  Grenada14,073.6  PSK63
2007-18-11 19:12K3UK   PSK63 38
N5PU   United States  14,075.1  PSK63
2007-18-11 18:46K3UK   PSK63 51
VE9DX  Canada  7,038.8  PSK63
2007-18-11 19:26K3UK   PSK63 56
SP7IIT Poland  7,037.7  PSK63
2007-18-11 19:27K3UK   PSK63 7
KF3AA  United States   7,037.5  PSK63
2007-18-11 19:31K3UK   PSK63 44
S51MA  Slovenia7,037.3  PSK63
2007-18-11 19:47K3UK   PSK63 6
CT4DK  Portugal7,038.4  PSK63
2007-18-11 19:47K3UK   PSK63 38
AO1OS  Spain   7,039.2  PSK63
2007-18-11 19:53K3UK   PSK63 37
OK1VSL Czech Republic  7,038.8  PSK63
2007-18-11 19:47K3UK   PSK63 42
ON8UM  Belgium 7,037.7  PSK63
2007-18-11 20:00K3UK   PSK63 47
CT3Madeira Island  7,038.8  PSK63
2007-18-11 20:09K3UK   PSK63 38
CN8YZ  Morocco 7,038.3  PSK63
2007-18-11 19:59K3UK   PSK63 43
DK8VQ  Germany 7,037.9  PSK63
2007-18-11 20:17K3UK   PSK63 30
CT3BD  Madeira Island  7,038.8  PSK63
2007-18-11 19:45K3UK   PSK63 38
G4KMH  England 7,038.5  PSK63
2007-18-11 20:19K3UK   PSK63 40
CN8KD  Morocco 7,038.1  PSK63
2007-18-11 19:49K3UK   PSK63 0
OP3A   Belgium 7,039.2  PSK63
2007-18-11 20:19K3UK   PSK63 16
WP3UX  Puerto Rico 7,036.6  PSK63
2007-18-11 19:58K3UK   PSK63 37
RU3QR  European Russia 7,038.5  PSK63
2007-18-11 20:25K3UK   PSK63 44
N9FTC/4United States  14,074.7  PSK63
2007-18-11 20:26K3UK   PSK63 40
W5VGR  United States  14,074.4  PSK63
2007-18-11 20:28K3UK   PSK63 24
W1MNY  United States  14,074.7  PSK63
2007-18-11 20:28K3UK   PSK63 37
CQ7EPC Portugal7,036.0  PSK63
2007-18-11 20:35K3UK   PSK63 57
VE9DX  Canada  7,037.1  PSK63
2007-18-11 20:36K3UK   PSK63 53
N3YZ   United States   7,036.7  PSK63
2007-18-11 20:52K3UK   PSK63 54
KA1UJQ United States   7,037.1  PSK63
2007-18-11 20:39K3UK   PSK63 20
K1YAN  United States   7,036.6  PSK63
2007-18-11 21:01K3UK   PSK63 41
KK5OQ  United States   7,036.3  PSK63
2007-18-11 21:00K3UK   PSK63 37
KA0VXK United States   7,036.5  PSK63
2007-18-11 21:15K3UK   PSK63 54
J69DS  St Lucia7,036.7  PSK63
2007-18-11 21:17K3UK   PSK63 52
OK1VSL Czech Republic

Re: [digitalradio] Re: RTTY contester's survey

2007-11-18 Thread Charles Brabham


Well, he has a very good point that perhaps you should consider.

Using more bandwidth than you need to communicate is worse than using too 
much power.

73,
Charles Brabham, N5PVL


- Original Message - 
From: "Roger J. Buffington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: RTTY contester's survey


> Brian A wrote:
>>
>>  Roger,
>>
>>  What about shared resoures don't you understand?
>
> I don't particularly care for the tone of your post.  Thanks for the
> lecture.  Conversation ended. SK
>
> de Roger W6VZV
>
>





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[digitalradio] Signalink USB ext. sound

2007-11-18 Thread ktnjoepark
I have a problem, just looking for confirmation.
 
I think I have lost the Audio out of the Data Port on my TS480.  Just  to 
confirm.  I Plugged earphones into the spkr jack and  the mon jack  on the back 
of the USB, No Sound,  so I am pretty sure it has a  problem.  the xmt circuit 
is working ok. 
 
Joe WB6AGR
 
 



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Re: [digitalradio] Re: digital voice within 100 Hz bandwidth

2007-11-18 Thread Robert Thompson
Oops, sent too quickly. What I meant was: "That ( speech recognition
not being real time) is not entirely true." There are many commercial
packages that do minimal-lag "realtime" speech recognition. One
example would be the voice command features built into Apple's OSX.
Another would be any one of a number of speech-to-text transcription
packages.

I apologize if my unsupported and abrupt original phrasing appeared to
be inflammatory. Such was not intended.


On Nov 18, 2007 2:11 PM, Robert Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That is not entirely true. Besides, I wasn't focusing so much on their
> "real" research as the voice characterization research that they had
> to do before they could usefully work on recognition. It turns out
> that the very areas that are most necessary for digital voice
> recognition are the ones most necessary for human brains to recognize
> and interpret. Voice is a mixed-information-density signal, and if you
> "simplify" the signal by filtering out and discarding the less
> necessary elements, you have significantly reduced the effort the next
> stage has to do, whether it's digital encoding or speech recognition.
>
>
>
> On Nov 18, 2007 1:31 PM, Mike Lebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >  Robert,
> >
> > I agree. The thing that is different is that speech recognition is not real
> > time. Voice over the radio is real time.
> >
> > Mike n6ief
> >
> >
> >
> > On Nov 18, 2007 10:46 AM, Robert Thompson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > There are several (military/gov) standard intelligibility tests that
> > > do a pretty good job of scoring what most humans can and can not
> > > reliably understand. You might try taking a look at them to get some
> > > ideas of which voice characteristics make the most difference to
> > > intelligibility. There is actually a surprising amount of data out
> > > there, especially if you include the data peripheral to the various
> > > computerized speech translator research projects. It's not *exactly*
> > > signal processing... but understanding what parts of the signal matter
> > > the most can be surprisingly helpful. This may be unusually
> > > productive, because as of yet there hasn't been a huge amount of
> > > cross-discipline work between the codec researchers and the
> > > speech-to-meaning researchers. While there's a lot of duplicate
> > > research in there, it tends to be from slightly different
> > > perspectives, and the "stereo view" can sometimes help.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Nov 18, 2007 9:12 AM, Mike Lebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Vojtech,
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for your reply to my papers. I will do more work on the
> > phonemes.
> > > > The project I want to do uses new computers that were no available 10
> > years
> > > > ago. Every 10 mS a decision is made to send a one or a zero. To make
> > that
> > > > decision I have 68 parallel FFT's running in the background. I believe
> > the
> > > > brain could handle mispronounce words better than you think.
> > > >
> > > > Mike
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Nov 17, 2007 3:55 PM, r_lwesterfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a few radios (ARC-210-1851, PSC-5D, PRC-117F) at work that
> > operate
> > > > in MELP for a vocoder – Mixed Excitation Linear Prediction. We have
> > found
> > > > MELP to be superior (more human-like voice qualities – less Charlie
> > Brown's
> > > > teacher) to LPC-10 but we use far larger bandwidths than 100 khz. I do
> > not
> > > > know how well any of this will play out at such a narrow bandwidth.
> > > > Listening to Charlie Brown's teacher will send you running away quickly
> > and
> > > > you should think of your listeners . . . they will tire very quickly.
> > Just
> > > > because voice can be sent at such narrower bandwidths does not
> > necessarily
> > > > mean that people will like to listen to it.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Rick – KH2DF
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > On Behalf Of Vojtech Bubník
> > > > > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 9:11 AM
> > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
> > > > > Subject: [digitalradio] Re: digital voice within 100 Hz bandwidth
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Mike.
> > > > >
> > > > > I studied some aspects of voice recognition about 10 years ago when I
> > > > thought of joining a research group at Czech Technical University in
> > Prague.
> > > > I have a 260 pages text book on my book shelf on voice recognition.
> > > > >
> > > > > Voice signal has high redundancy if compared to a text transcription.
> > But
> > > > there is additional information stored in the voice signal like pitch,
>

Re: [digitalradio] Re: digital voice within 100 Hz bandwidth

2007-11-18 Thread Robert Thompson
That is not entirely true. Besides, I wasn't focusing so much on their
"real" research as the voice characterization research that they had
to do before they could usefully work on recognition. It turns out
that the very areas that are most necessary for digital voice
recognition are the ones most necessary for human brains to recognize
and interpret. Voice is a mixed-information-density signal, and if you
"simplify" the signal by filtering out and discarding the less
necessary elements, you have significantly reduced the effort the next
stage has to do, whether it's digital encoding or speech recognition.


On Nov 18, 2007 1:31 PM, Mike Lebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  Robert,
>
> I agree. The thing that is different is that speech recognition is not real
> time. Voice over the radio is real time.
>
> Mike n6ief
>
>
>
> On Nov 18, 2007 10:46 AM, Robert Thompson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > There are several (military/gov) standard intelligibility tests that
> > do a pretty good job of scoring what most humans can and can not
> > reliably understand. You might try taking a look at them to get some
> > ideas of which voice characteristics make the most difference to
> > intelligibility. There is actually a surprising amount of data out
> > there, especially if you include the data peripheral to the various
> > computerized speech translator research projects. It's not *exactly*
> > signal processing... but understanding what parts of the signal matter
> > the most can be surprisingly helpful. This may be unusually
> > productive, because as of yet there hasn't been a huge amount of
> > cross-discipline work between the codec researchers and the
> > speech-to-meaning researchers. While there's a lot of duplicate
> > research in there, it tends to be from slightly different
> > perspectives, and the "stereo view" can sometimes help.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Nov 18, 2007 9:12 AM, Mike Lebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Vojtech,
> > >
> > > Thank you for your reply to my papers. I will do more work on the
> phonemes.
> > > The project I want to do uses new computers that were no available 10
> years
> > > ago. Every 10 mS a decision is made to send a one or a zero. To make
> that
> > > decision I have 68 parallel FFT's running in the background. I believe
> the
> > > brain could handle mispronounce words better than you think.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> > > On Nov 17, 2007 3:55 PM, r_lwesterfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have a few radios (ARC-210-1851, PSC-5D, PRC-117F) at work that
> operate
> > > in MELP for a vocoder – Mixed Excitation Linear Prediction. We have
> found
> > > MELP to be superior (more human-like voice qualities – less Charlie
> Brown's
> > > teacher) to LPC-10 but we use far larger bandwidths than 100 khz. I do
> not
> > > know how well any of this will play out at such a narrow bandwidth.
> > > Listening to Charlie Brown's teacher will send you running away quickly
> and
> > > you should think of your listeners . . . they will tire very quickly.
> Just
> > > because voice can be sent at such narrower bandwidths does not
> necessarily
> > > mean that people will like to listen to it.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Rick – KH2DF
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 
> > >
> > > >
> > > > From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > On Behalf Of Vojtech Bubník
> > > > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 9:11 AM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
> > > > Subject: [digitalradio] Re: digital voice within 100 Hz bandwidth
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Mike.
> > > >
> > > > I studied some aspects of voice recognition about 10 years ago when I
> > > thought of joining a research group at Czech Technical University in
> Prague.
> > > I have a 260 pages text book on my book shelf on voice recognition.
> > > >
> > > > Voice signal has high redundancy if compared to a text transcription.
> But
> > > there is additional information stored in the voice signal like pitch,
> > > intonation, speed. One could estimate for example mood of the speaker
> from
> > > the utterance.
> > > >
> > > > Voice tract could be described by a generator (tone for vowels, hiss
> for
> > > consonants) and filter. Translating voice into generator and filter
> > > coefficients greatly decreases voice data redundancy. This is roughly
> the
> > > technique that the common voice codecs do. GSM voice compression is a
> kind
> > > of Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction. Another interesting codec
> is
> > > AMBE (Advanced Multi-Band Excitation) used by DSTAR system. GSM
> half-rate
> > > codec squeezes voice to 5.6kbit/sec, AMBE to 3.6 kbps. Both systems use
> > > excitation tables, but AMBE is more efficient and closed source. I think
> the
> > > clue to the efficiency

RE: [digitalradio] I Apologize

2007-11-18 Thread Bill
I suppose if the pictures had to get through because of an emergency, the
VFO could have been used as per Hollingsworth's comments @ Dayton.  Maybe a
secondary frequency should be selected for the net or a VFO procedure since
none of us "own" a frequency no matter how long we may have been using it.
Communications can always go on, if we want to!

 

William A. Collister

N7MOG

  _  

From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of aa0oi
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 7:34 AM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [digitalradio] I Apologize

 

To the great group of Digital Pic Guys that we had on 7.178 on Sat.

I apologize for not being able to have a net this Sunday morning.
I apologize the the arrogant and rude hams that do contesting and don't 
listen to a freq before transmitting, and do splits without 
listening and move within 1 kc with 1500 watts.
I apologize for CQ mag. for having such a contest and making any 
type of communications (other than thier contest)
impossible. (and for making it three days long!)
I apologize to hams in other countries for trashing ALL the US freqs
with "CQ Contest" (etc) for 3 days.
I apologize "for" the FCC for allowing this deliberate type of 
interference to go on and continue on ALL SSB freqs.
(give them 100kc on each band and let them have at it)
I hope to see you all on next Saturday 8am on 7.178 for more pictures 
and conversation. (and Sunday)
Garrett/ AA0OI

 



Re: [digitalradio] Re: digital voice within 100 Hz bandwidth

2007-11-18 Thread Mike Lebo
Robert,

I agree. The thing that is different is that speech recognition is not real
time. Voice over the radio is real time.

Mike n6ief

On Nov 18, 2007 10:46 AM, Robert Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>   There are several (military/gov) standard intelligibility tests that
> do a pretty good job of scoring what most humans can and can not
> reliably understand. You might try taking a look at them to get some
> ideas of which voice characteristics make the most difference to
> intelligibility. There is actually a surprising amount of data out
> there, especially if you include the data peripheral to the various
> computerized speech translator research projects. It's not *exactly*
> signal processing... but understanding what parts of the signal matter
> the most can be surprisingly helpful. This may be unusually
> productive, because as of yet there hasn't been a huge amount of
> cross-discipline work between the codec researchers and the
> speech-to-meaning researchers. While there's a lot of duplicate
> research in there, it tends to be from slightly different
> perspectives, and the "stereo view" can sometimes help.
>
>
> On Nov 18, 2007 9:12 AM, Mike Lebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Vojtech,
> >
> > Thank you for your reply to my papers. I will do more work on the
> phonemes.
> > The project I want to do uses new computers that were no available 10
> years
> > ago. Every 10 mS a decision is made to send a one or a zero. To make
> that
> > decision I have 68 parallel FFT's running in the background. I believe
> the
> > brain could handle mispronounce words better than you think.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > On Nov 17, 2007 3:55 PM, r_lwesterfield <[EMAIL 
> > PROTECTED]
> >
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I have a few radios (ARC-210-1851, PSC-5D, PRC-117F) at work that
> operate
> > in MELP for a vocoder – Mixed Excitation Linear Prediction. We have
> found
> > MELP to be superior (more human-like voice qualities – less Charlie
> Brown's
> > teacher) to LPC-10 but we use far larger bandwidths than 100 khz. I do
> not
> > know how well any of this will play out at such a narrow bandwidth.
> > Listening to Charlie Brown's teacher will send you running away quickly
> and
> > you should think of your listeners . . . they will tire very quickly.
> Just
> > because voice can be sent at such narrower bandwidths does not
> necessarily
> > mean that people will like to listen to it.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Rick – KH2DF
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 
> >
> > >
> > > From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com 
> > > [mailto:
> digitalradio@yahoogroups.com ]
> > On Behalf Of Vojtech Bubník
> > > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 9:11 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;
> digitalradio@yahoogroups.com 
> > > Subject: [digitalradio] Re: digital voice within 100 Hz bandwidth
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Mike.
> > >
> > > I studied some aspects of voice recognition about 10 years ago when I
> > thought of joining a research group at Czech Technical University in
> Prague.
> > I have a 260 pages text book on my book shelf on voice recognition.
> > >
> > > Voice signal has high redundancy if compared to a text transcription.
> But
> > there is additional information stored in the voice signal like pitch,
> > intonation, speed. One could estimate for example mood of the speaker
> from
> > the utterance.
> > >
> > > Voice tract could be described by a generator (tone for vowels, hiss
> for
> > consonants) and filter. Translating voice into generator and filter
> > coefficients greatly decreases voice data redundancy. This is roughly
> the
> > technique that the common voice codecs do. GSM voice compression is a
> kind
> > of Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction. Another interesting codec
> is
> > AMBE (Advanced Multi-Band Excitation) used by DSTAR system. GSM
> half-rate
> > codec squeezes voice to 5.6kbit/sec, AMBE to 3.6 kbps. Both systems use
> > excitation tables, but AMBE is more efficient and closed source. I think
> the
> > clue to the efficiency is in size and quality of the excitation tables.
> To
> > create such an algorithm requires considerable amount of research and
> data
> > analysis. The intelligibility of GSM or AMBE codecs is very good. You
> could
> > buy the intelectual property of the AMBE codec by buying the chip. There
> are
> > couple of projects running trying to built DSTAR into legacy
> transceivers.
> > >
> > > About 10 years ago we at OK1KPI club experimented with an echolink
> like
> > system. We modified speakfreely software to control FM transceiver and
> we
> > added web interface to control tuning and subtone of the transceiver. It
> was
> > a lot of fun and a very unique system at that time.
> > http://www.speakfreely.org/ The best compression factor offers LPC-10
> codec
> > (3460kbps), but the sound is very robot-like and quite hard to
> understand.
> > At the end we reverted to GSM. I th

Re: [digitalradio] Re: digital voice within 100 Hz bandwidth

2007-11-18 Thread Robert Thompson
There are several (military/gov) standard intelligibility tests that
do a pretty good job of scoring what most humans can and can not
reliably understand. You might try taking a look at them to get some
ideas of which voice characteristics make the most difference to
intelligibility. There is actually a surprising amount of data out
there, especially if you include the data peripheral to the various
computerized speech translator research projects. It's not *exactly*
signal processing... but understanding what parts of the signal matter
the most can be surprisingly helpful. This may be unusually
productive, because as of yet there hasn't been a huge amount of
cross-discipline work between the codec researchers and the
speech-to-meaning researchers. While there's a lot of duplicate
research in there, it tends to be from slightly different
perspectives, and the "stereo view" can sometimes help.



On Nov 18, 2007 9:12 AM, Mike Lebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  Hi Vojtech,
>
> Thank you for your reply to my papers. I will do more work on the phonemes.
> The project I want to do uses new computers that were no available 10 years
> ago. Every 10 mS a decision is made to send a one or a zero. To make that
> decision I have 68 parallel FFT's running in the background. I believe the
> brain could handle mispronounce words better than you think.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Nov 17, 2007 3:55 PM, r_lwesterfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a few radios (ARC-210-1851, PSC-5D, PRC-117F) at work that operate
> in MELP for a vocoder – Mixed Excitation Linear Prediction.  We have found
> MELP to be superior (more human-like voice qualities – less Charlie Brown's
> teacher) to LPC-10 but we use far larger bandwidths than 100 khz.  I do not
> know how well any of this will play out at such a narrow bandwidth.
> Listening to Charlie Brown's teacher will send you running away quickly and
> you should think of your listeners . . . they will tire very quickly.  Just
> because voice can be sent at such narrower bandwidths does not necessarily
> mean that people will like to listen to it.
> >
> >
> >
> > Rick – KH2DF
> >
> >
> >
> > 
>
> >
> > From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Vojtech Bubník
> > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 9:11 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [digitalradio] Re: digital voice within 100 Hz bandwidth
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Mike.
> >
> > I studied some aspects of voice recognition about 10 years ago when I
> thought of joining a research group at Czech Technical University in Prague.
> I have a 260 pages text book on my book shelf on voice recognition.
> >
> > Voice signal has high redundancy if compared to a text transcription. But
> there is additional information stored in the voice signal like pitch,
> intonation, speed. One could estimate for example mood of the speaker from
> the utterance.
> >
> > Voice tract could be described by a generator (tone for vowels, hiss for
> consonants) and filter. Translating voice into generator and filter
> coefficients greatly decreases voice data redundancy. This is roughly the
> technique that the common voice codecs do. GSM voice compression is a kind
> of Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction. Another interesting codec is
> AMBE (Advanced Multi-Band Excitation) used by DSTAR system. GSM half-rate
> codec squeezes voice to 5.6kbit/sec, AMBE to 3.6 kbps. Both systems use
> excitation tables, but AMBE is more efficient and closed source. I think the
> clue to the efficiency is in size and quality of the excitation tables. To
> create such an algorithm requires considerable amount of research and data
> analysis. The intelligibility of GSM or AMBE codecs is very good. You could
> buy the intelectual property of the AMBE codec by buying the chip. There are
> couple of projects running trying to built DSTAR into legacy transceivers.
> >
> > About 10 years ago we at OK1KPI club experimented with an echolink like
> system. We modified speakfreely software to control FM transceiver and we
> added web interface to control tuning and subtone of the transceiver. It was
> a lot of fun and a very unique system at that time.
> http://www.speakfreely.org/ The best compression factor offers LPC-10 codec
> (3460kbps), but the sound is very robot-like and quite hard to understand.
> At the end we reverted to GSM. I think IVOX is a variant of the LPC system
> that we tried.
> >
> > Your proposal is to increase compression rate by transmitting phonemes. I
> once had the same idea, but I quickly rejected it. Although it may be a nice
> exercise, I find it not very useless until good continuous speech
> multi-speaker multi-language recognition systems are available. I will try
> to explain my reasoning behind that statement.
> >
> > Let's classify voice recognition systems by the implementation complexity:
> > 1) Single-sp

RE: [digitalradio] I Apologize

2007-11-18 Thread Barry Garratt
Which CQ Magazine contest are you referring to that runs for 3 days and was
running yesterday morning?
There was no contest shown on their website and usually their contests are
48 hours not 72.
 
Just curious.
 
Barry VE3CDX/W7

  _  

From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of aa0oi
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 6:34 AM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [digitalradio] I Apologize



To the great group of Digital Pic Guys that we had on 7.178 on Sat.

I apologize for not being able to have a net this Sunday morning.
I apologize the the arrogant and rude hams that do contesting and don't 
listen to a freq before transmitting, and do splits without 
listening and move within 1 kc with 1500 watts.
I apologize for CQ mag. for having such a contest and making any 
type of communications (other than thier contest)
impossible. (and for making it three days long!)
I apologize to hams in other countries for trashing ALL the US freqs
with "CQ Contest" (etc) for 3 days.
I apologize "for" the FCC for allowing this deliberate type of 
interference to go on and continue on ALL SSB freqs.
(give them 100kc on each band and let them have at it)
I hope to see you all on next Saturday 8am on 7.178 for more pictures 
and conversation. (and Sunday)
Garrett/ AA0OI



 


[digitalradio] Re: Slow MFSK?

2007-11-18 Thread grwescom
Cool!

Thanks Paul.

Gary

--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "paul181696"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Gary
> 
> If its around 14.076 then its JT65A. 
> You will find stations TX/RX in even/odd minute segments.
> Google JT65A for the software package called WSJT by K1JT.
> 
> 73
> 
> Paul
> 




[digitalradio] Re: Slow MFSK?

2007-11-18 Thread paul181696
Gary

If its around 14.076 then its JT65A. 
You will find stations TX/RX in even/odd minute segments.
Google JT65A for the software package called WSJT by K1JT.

73

Paul



--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "grwescom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> OK, I give up.  What is the slow MFSK I am seeing on 20 meters lately.
> It idles at the lowest frequency an looks like there may be around 16
> frequencies used?
> 
> Gary N0GW
>




Re: [digitalradio] Slow MFSK?

2007-11-18 Thread Rick
This is likely a mode developed for moonbounce/meteor scatter that some 
have been using on HF to see another hams callsigns and signal report 
with weak signals. JT-65A perhaps?

73,

Rick, KV9U





grwescom wrote:
> OK, I give up.  What is the slow MFSK I am seeing on 20 meters lately.
> It idles at the lowest frequency an looks like there may be around 16
> frequencies used?
>
> Gary N0GW
>
>
>   



[digitalradio] Slow MFSK?

2007-11-18 Thread grwescom
OK, I give up.  What is the slow MFSK I am seeing on 20 meters lately.
It idles at the lowest frequency an looks like there may be around 16
frequencies used?

Gary N0GW



[digitalradio] Slow MFSK?

2007-11-18 Thread grwescom
OK, I give up.  What is the slow MFSK I am seeing on 20 meters lately.
It idles at the lowest frequency an looks like there may be around
frequencies used?

Gary N0GW



Re: [digitalradio] Re: digital voice within 100 Hz bandwidth

2007-11-18 Thread Mike Lebo
Hi Vojtech,

Thank you for your reply to my papers. I will do more work on the phonemes.
The project I want to do uses new computers that were no available 10 years
ago. Every 10 mS a decision is made to send a one or a zero. To make that
decision I have 68 parallel FFT's running in the background. I believe the
brain could handle mispronounce words better than you think.

Mike

On Nov 17, 2007 3:55 PM, r_lwesterfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>I have a few radios (ARC-210-1851, PSC-5D, PRC-117F) at work that
> operate in MELP for a vocoder – Mixed Excitation Linear Prediction.  We have
> found MELP to be superior (more human-like voice qualities – less Charlie
> Brown's teacher) to LPC-10 but we use far larger bandwidths than 100 khz.  I
> do not know how well any of this will play out at such a narrow bandwidth.
> Listening to Charlie Brown's teacher will send you running away quickly and
> you should think of your listeners . . . they will tire very quickly.  Just
> because voice can be sent at such narrower bandwidths does not necessarily
> mean that people will like to listen to it.
>
>
>
> Rick – KH2DF
>
>
>  --
>
> *From:* digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *On Behalf Of *Vojtech Bubník
> *Sent:* Saturday, November 17, 2007 9:11 AM
> *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]; digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
> *Subject:* [digitalradio] Re: digital voice within 100 Hz bandwidth
>
>
>
> Hi Mike.
>
> I studied some aspects of voice recognition about 10 years ago when I
> thought of joining a research group at Czech Technical University in Prague.
> I have a 260 pages text book on my book shelf on voice recognition.
>
> Voice signal has high redundancy if compared to a text transcription. But
> there is additional information stored in the voice signal like pitch,
> intonation, speed. One could estimate for example mood of the speaker from
> the utterance.
>
> Voice tract could be described by a generator (tone for vowels, hiss for
> consonants) and filter. Translating voice into generator and filter
> coefficients greatly decreases voice data redundancy. This is roughly the
> technique that the common voice codecs do. GSM voice compression is a kind
> of Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction. Another interesting codec is
> AMBE (Advanced Multi-Band Excitation) used by DSTAR system. GSM half-rate
> codec squeezes voice to 5.6kbit/sec, AMBE to 3.6 kbps. Both systems use
> excitation tables, but AMBE is more efficient and closed source. I think the
> clue to the efficiency is in size and quality of the excitation tables. To
> create such an algorithm requires considerable amount of research and data
> analysis. The intelligibility of GSM or AMBE codecs is very good. You could
> buy the intelectual property of the AMBE codec by buying the chip. There are
> couple of projects running trying to built DSTAR into legacy transceivers.
>
> About 10 years ago we at OK1KPI club experimented with an echolink like
> system. We modified speakfreely software to control FM transceiver and we
> added web interface to control tuning and subtone of the transceiver. It was
> a lot of fun and a very unique system at that time.
> http://www.speakfreely.org/ The best compression factor offers LPC-10
> codec (3460kbps), but the sound is very robot-like and quite hard to
> understand. At the end we reverted to GSM. I think IVOX is a variant of the
> LPC system that we tried.
>
> Your proposal is to increase compression rate by transmitting phonemes. I
> once had the same idea, but I quickly rejected it. Although it may be a nice
> exercise, I find it not very useless until good continuous speech
> multi-speaker multi-language recognition systems are available. I will try
> to explain my reasoning behind that statement.
>
> Let's classify voice recognition systems by the implementation complexity:
> 1) Single-speaker, limited set of utterances recognized (control your
> desktop by voice)
> 2) Multiple-speaker, limited set of utterances recognized (automated phone
> system)
> 3) dictating system
> 4) continuous speech transcription
> 5) speech recognition and understanding
>
> Your proposal will need implement most of the code from 4) or 5) to be
> really usable and it has to be reliable.
>
> State of the art voice recognition systems use hidden Markov models to
> detect phonemes. Phoneme is searched by traversing state diagram by
> evaluating multiple recorded spectra. The phoneme is soft-decoded. Output of
> the classifier is a list of phonemes with their probabilities of detection
> assigned. To cope with phoneme smearing on their boundaries, either
> sub-phonemes or phoneme pairs need to be detected.
>
> After the phonemes are classified, they are chained into words. Depending
> on the dictionary, most probable words are picked. You suppose that your
> system will not need it. But the trouble are consonants. They carry much
> less energy than vowels and are much easier to be confused. Dict

[digitalradio] I Apologize

2007-11-18 Thread aa0oi
To the great group of Digital Pic Guys that we had on 7.178 on Sat.

I apologize for not being able to have a net this Sunday morning.
I apologize the the arrogant and rude hams that do contesting and don't 
 listen to a freq before transmitting, and do splits without 
 listening and move within 1 kc with 1500 watts.
I apologize for CQ mag. for having such a contest and making any 
  type of communications (other than thier contest)
  impossible. (and for making it three days long!)
I apologize to hams in other countries for trashing ALL the US freqs
  with "CQ Contest" (etc) for 3 days.
I apologize "for" the FCC for allowing this deliberate type of 
  interference to go on and continue on ALL SSB freqs.
  (give them 100kc on each band and let them have at it)
I hope to see you all on next Saturday 8am on 7.178 for more pictures 
   and conversation. (and Sunday)
Garrett/ AA0OI




[digitalradio] Welcome to ve3lvv

2007-11-18 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Welcome to ve3lvv, DRCC # 1611.

Andy K3UK.



[digitalradio] New release (4.5) of MULTIPSK (DTMF - ALE400)

2007-11-18 Thread Patrick Lindecker
New release (4.5) of MULTIPSK

RX/TX: PSK10/BPSK31-63-125/QPSK31-63-125/CHIP 
(64/128)/PSKFEC31/PSKAM10-31-50/PSK63F - PSK220F + DIGISSTV 
"Run"/DTMF/CW/CCW/CCW-FSK/THROB/THROBX/DTMF/MFSK8/
MFSK16 (+ SSTV)/MIL-STD-188-141A (+ARQ FAE)/ALE400/OLIVIA/CONTESTIA/RTTYM/
VOICE/DominoF DF/DominoEX/MT63/RTTY 45/75/ RTTY 50+SYNOP+SHIP/ASCII/AMTOR FEC/ 
PACKET 110-300-1200 + APRS+ DIGISSTV "Run"/PACTOR 1-FEC/PAX+PAX2 + APRS/
FELD HELL/PSK HELL/FM HELL (105-245)/HELL 80/HF-FAX/SSTV/
RX only: AMTOR ARQ/NAVTEX/RTTY 100/1382/GMDSS DSC
DSP: Filters + CW binaural reception
PSK Panoramic (BPSK31/BPSK63/PSKFEC31): RX 23 channels simultaneously
CW Panoramic: RX 8 or 23 channels simultaneously
RTTY Panoramic: RX 8 RTTY QSO decoded simultaneously on 22 channels
Programmation of Multipsk reception
TCP/IP digital modem 

CLOCK 1.7.6 (FRANCE-INTER, DCF77, HBG, RUGBY, WWVB, WWV, WWVH, CHU, GPS, JJY)

MULTIDEM 2.1.1 Modulator/demodulator for DSB and SdR transceiver

Pour les francophones: la version française de ce message se trouve sur mon 
site (http://f6cte.free.fr). Il suffit de cliquer sur le lien "Principales 
modifications (courriel avertissant de la sortie de la nouvelle version)".


Hello to all Ham and SWL,

The new release of MULTIPSK (4.5), CLOCK (1.7.6) and MULTIDEM (2.1.1) are in my 
Web site (http://f6cte.free.fr). 
The main mirror site is Earl's, N8KBR: http://multipsk.eqth.info/index.html 
(click on "United States").
Another mirror site isTerry's: http://www.hamshack.co.uk/

Multispk associated to Clock are freeware programs but with functions submitted 
to a licence (by user key).

CLOCK 1.7.6 has now a possibility to directly interface a SdR receiver through 
the sound card.

MULTIDEM 2.1.1 fixes bugs.

The main modifications of MULTIPSK 4.5 are the following:

1) Decoding/coding of the DTMF (Dual-tone multi-frequency) mode. 

This mode is used for telephone (to dial the phone number) but also in VHF and 
UHF for different uses as, for example, activation of repeaters by radio. It 
could be used in HF, for radio control of Ham equipments. 

Fonctions of DTMF handling on reception are available for licencied copies, 
only. See specifications further on.


2) New ALE400 mode (ALE in a 400 Hz bandwidth)

This ALE system has exactly the same functions as the ones of the "141A" of 
Multipsk except that:

* the bandwidth is 400 Hz instead of 2000 Hz as in standard ALE (so ALE400 can 
be transmitted anywhere where 500 Hz digital modes are authorized),
* the modulation speed is 50 bauds instead of 125 bauds and consequently the 
text throughput are 2.5 slower,
* no fix frequency (as in MFSK16...), the automatic tuning being able to be 
done thanks to the RS/ID transmission,
* the signal to noise ratio is 5 dB better: 

- 9 dB for sounding, AMD messages and Unproto mode,
- 11.5 dB (- 13.5 dB with many repetitions) for ARQ FAE.


For ARQ FAE, it has been added a compression system using a modified IZ8BLY 
(Nino) MFSK Varicode.
So the ALE400 text throughput is typically 60 wpm (up to 107 wpm in bilateral 
and 63 characters frames). ARQ FAE covers all ASCII and ANSI characters (8 bits)

There is a Word document which goal is to show from Multipsk snapshots how to 
do the basic operations in ALE and ALE400. This document (1.1 Mo) is available 
from my site site "http://f6cte.free.fr/ALE_and_ALE400_easy_with_Multipsk.doc"; 
(copy and paste this adress in Internet Explorer (or equivalent) Net adress 
field). Look also at "http://hflink.com/ale400/"; which is a specific page for 
ALE400, with a lot of information.


ALE400 frequencies: 1837.0, 3589.0, 7037.5, 10141.5, 14074.0, 14094.0, 18104.5, 
21094.0, 24926.0, 28146.0, 50162.5, 144162.5 (AF at 1625 Hz).


3) Direct SdR interface through the sound card 

It is the best way to do as there is no additional transmission delay. It 
allows the working in all digital modes.
The modulation and demodulation operations of the I/Q signals coming from the 
sound card are directly done by Multipsk (which plays the role of a SdR 
program). The bandwidth considered is the USB side, in base band. So there is 
neither frequency shift nor consideration of the LSB side. After selection, the 
working is transparent for the user.

4) Rewind function

This function makes you able to decode the signal from a point in time located 
before you click on the waterfall. It is permitted to select a rewind duration 
from 5 seconds to 3 minutes (from 20 seconds to 3 minutes for only the 
licencied copies). Powerful computers can take profit of this function, 
decoding of the rewind period being quick.




For information, for all the Multipsk exotic modes (PSKFEC31, PSK10, PSKAM, 
PSK63F, PSK220F (+DIGISSTV), CCW-FSK, MFSK8, THROBX, DominoF, DominoEX, PAX, 
CHIP, Voice, Packet 110 bauds...), I propose the QRP frequency: 14075 Khz USB 
(AF around 1000 Hz), at 17h00 UTC.

73

Patrick

DTMF

Description :

Duration of the symbol: variable, in general between 40 to 100 ms for the 
carrier and 20 to 60 ms for th