[digitalradio] testers needed
I have run a few local tests of an software application, now I am looking for a couple of HF contacts. It involves PSK (63, 125, 250) with ARQ. It will require using a Linux boot CD, simply put the CD in a windows CD-rom , boot it. If interested, email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The software is not for general release yet. Andy K3UK
[digitalradio] Re: PC Monitors for ham use?
Rick, I am really bothered by loosing still more lines of text with these wide screen beasties. The present OS's are like Stephen Kings Langoliers. They eat away at available screen real estate. Any way to turn them 90 degrees and also rotate the windows display screen so that a full page can be displayed? Brian/K3KO --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen some multi screen shacks. In fact, I think one ham has 5 screens for various functions, some of which are dual screens with one computer. My idea was to keep things a bit simpler so I wanted only one screen that was at the right distance for my limited eyesight accommodation. In fact, I have some computer glasses which have a large upper area set to the screen distance and the lower for reading distance. It makes a huge difference for me compared to trying to see the screen with the center of my trifocals. Progressive lenses have a very small sweet spot for a given distance so I have not gone that route either. My 22 Samsung 225BW works well with either Windows XP or Vista as long as you insure that the screen is connected to and turned on when you boot up the computer as it has to detect and set the screen parameters. Otherwise, it can look as bad as it does with Linux OS and that is completely unacceptable to me. Other advantages of a large widescreen is the ability to play widescreen movies to match the screen size (larger) and it makes it easier to bring up two documents you are working between and drag and drop as needed. The one downside is that you don't necessarily have more real estate to work with, it is just wider and because of that, you make not see as many lines of text in a document as you would with a 4:3 monitor. As you probably have noticed, almost all the monitors sold now are widescreen. Same trend with notebook computers. 73, Rick, KV9U Andrew O'Brien wrote: Any thoughts on a wide screen PC monitor versus a standard screen? I'm thinking of adding a 21 inch wide screen. Andy K3UK
Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?
One reason there isn't a windows version is that PSKMail is leveraging a lot of already available bits of Linux infrastructure. To port it to windows would require either porting most of those pieces to windows yourself (time consuming), using pre-ported bits where possible (flaky, as they were only ported well enough to fulfill someone else's specific needs), or writing bridge code to adapt to similar windows services where possible and writing the missing pieces from scratch.
Re: [digitalradio] Re: PC Monitors for ham use?
Hi Brian, If you are using a large size monitor, you won't really lose a lot of text since the monitor screen real estate is physically larger than many of the smaller 4:3 monitors. Compare a 19 4:3 running at 1280x1024, to a 22 wide screen 16:9 which typically runs 1680x1050. Your vertical is still larger than the previous monitor although I think there could be a smaller size pixel. Of course, one thing you can not do with LCD monitors is make the fonts larger by using a smaller resolution like we did with CRT monitors. And the operating system drivers must be able to handle the widescreen monitor. This should be no problem with MS products but my experience with Linux has been very disappointing. [As I side note, the latest 7.10 Kubuntu, Tribe 4 (or 5?) that I downloaded today still does not support the Samsung 205/225 SyncMasters.] I am thankful that we can use the control - plus and minus keys to temporarily adjust font size in many documents as I have difficulty with some smaller fonts. Some monitors are intended to rotate sideways and you could use them to view a full document, however, I wonder if the 22 size monitors would be excessively large unless you wanted to see the entire page larger than lifesize? The real estate on my 22 monitor is 11 3/4 high and 18 1/2 inches wide. This enables me to place two pages side by side at almost full size and view most of both pages. I wish this had been available in the past when I used to be a consultant who did a fair amount of document development and needed to compare docs and cut and paste, etc. 73, Rick, KV9U Brian A wrote: Rick, I am really bothered by loosing still more lines of text with these wide screen beasties. The present OS's are like Stephen Kings Langoliers. They eat away at available screen real estate. Any way to turn them 90 degrees and also rotate the windows display screen so that a full page can be displayed? Brian/K3KO
Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?
1. Stick CD into computer 2. Reboot How much simpler can it get? On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 4:19 pm, Rick wrote: I try to keep in mind that when I am looking at new technology solutions that can be used for emergency communications, it has to be as simple as possible and is used by many others so that we can interoperate.
[digitalradio] Re: PC Monitors for ham use?
Rick, Tnx info. Large than life size is good. Bifocals are bad. Computer glasses are always lost. Given the demographics of our society, such a larger than life full page display would be welcome by many. 73 de Brian/K3KO --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brian, If you are using a large size monitor, you won't really lose a lot of text since the monitor screen real estate is physically larger than many of the smaller 4:3 monitors. Compare a 19 4:3 running at 1280x1024, to a 22 wide screen 16:9 which typically runs 1680x1050. Your vertical is still larger than the previous monitor although I think there could be a smaller size pixel. Of course, one thing you can not do with LCD monitors is make the fonts larger by using a smaller resolution like we did with CRT monitors. And the operating system drivers must be able to handle the widescreen monitor. This should be no problem with MS products but my experience with Linux has been very disappointing. [As I side note, the latest 7.10 Kubuntu, Tribe 4 (or 5?) that I downloaded today still does not support the Samsung 205/225 SyncMasters.] I am thankful that we can use the control - plus and minus keys to temporarily adjust font size in many documents as I have difficulty with some smaller fonts. Some monitors are intended to rotate sideways and you could use them to view a full document, however, I wonder if the 22 size monitors would be excessively large unless you wanted to see the entire page larger than lifesize? The real estate on my 22 monitor is 11 3/4 high and 18 1/2 inches wide. This enables me to place two pages side by side at almost full size and view most of both pages. I wish this had been available in the past when I used to be a consultant who did a fair amount of document development and needed to compare docs and cut and paste, etc. 73, Rick, KV9U Brian A wrote: Rick, I am really bothered by loosing still more lines of text with these wide screen beasties. The present OS's are like Stephen Kings Langoliers. They eat away at available screen real estate. Any way to turn them 90 degrees and also rotate the windows display screen so that a full page can be displayed? Brian/K3KO
[digitalradio] Linux amd PSKMAIL ?
On 9/2/07, Leigh L Klotz, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Stick CD into computer 2. Reboot How much simpler can it get? I have found it to be that simple with FL-DIGI but Rick and others have run in to conflicts with video cards or soundcards. It is not always as simple as I have found. Andy K3UK
[digitalradio] Re: Linux amd PSKMAIL ?
Additionally, some digital mode intefaces that use virtual serial ports require drivers that do not support Linux, thus rig control is not always possible. Andy K3UK On 9/3/07, Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/2/07, Leigh L Klotz, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Stick CD into computer 2. Reboot How much simpler can it get? I have found it to be that simple with FL-DIGI but Rick and others have run in to conflicts with video cards or soundcards. It is not always as simple as I have found. Andy K3UK
Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?
Leigh, It seems to me that there is still a catch, and is the need, specially for lazy people (read it both as lazy and easy to annoy) to store permanent parameters somewhere, so between reboots (easy to happen in emergency environments at the worst moments) the station does not lose its identity and configuration to match its hardware confifguration. It would be convenient to be able to save paramneters on a floppy, flash drive or a folder on a hard drive. I have not been persistent enough to get on the air with PSKmail myself yet, even when gmfsk and fldigi work well here with the PSKmail + Mandriva Live CD. 73, Jose, CO2JA --- Leigh L Klotz, Jr. wrote: 1. Stick CD into computer 2. Reboot How much simpler can it get? On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 4:19 pm, Rick wrote: I try to keep in mind that when I am looking at new technology solutions that can be used for emergency communications, it has to be as simple as possible and is used by many others so that we can interoperate. __ Participe en Universidad 2008. 11 al 15 de febrero del 2008. Palacio de las Convenciones, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba http://www.universidad2008.cu
Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?
Jose, the latest Puppy ISO with PSKMAIL does that, gives an option to save to flashdrive , CD, or a partition on the HD. Andy K3UK On 9/2/07, Jose A. Amador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leigh, It seems to me that there is still a catch, and is the need, specially for lazy people (read it both as lazy and easy to annoy) to store permanent parameters somewhere, so between reboots (easy to happen in emergency environments at the worst moments) the station does not lose its identity and configuration to match its hardware confifguration. It would be convenient to be able to save paramneters on a floppy, flash drive or a folder on a hard drive. I have not been persistent enough to get on the air with PSKmail myself yet, even when gmfsk and fldigi work well here with the PSKmail + Mandriva Live CD. 73, Jose, CO2JA --- Leigh L Klotz, Jr. wrote: 1. Stick CD into computer 2. Reboot How much simpler can it get? On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 4:19 pm, Rick wrote: I try to keep in mind that when I am looking at new technology solutions that can be used for emergency communications, it has to be as simple as possible and is used by many others so that we can interoperate. __ Participe en Universidad 2008. 11 al 15 de febrero del 2008. Palacio de las Convenciones, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba http://www.universidad2008.cu
Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?
I don't plan on tying up one computer for one mode during an emergency event. We just went through a pretty major disaster situation here in SW Wisconsin in the past week, with the 1000 year rain event. (Back in 1965 we had the 100 year event and we thought that was bad). With the hardened communications infrastructure, for the most part it was not a communications emergency, so there would have been no need for emergency e-mail, but they did call out ARES/RACES for non communications support. There is a LOT more to operating a communications mode than just turning on the computer. And digital communications typically add a great deal more complexity to the equation. Consider that we have had two attempts to demonstrate Winlink2000 during exercises, but each time something went wrong and we could not get it to work via a VHF telpac. Our local needs are primarily tactical and text digital modes are limited in supporting that need. DV might be OK, but that would be something to consider maybe a decade or two from now. Maybe much longer. 73, Rick, KV9U Leigh L Klotz, Jr. wrote: 1. Stick CD into computer 2. Reboot How much simpler can it get? On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 4:19 pm, Rick wrote: I try to keep in mind that when I am looking at new technology solutions that can be used for emergency communications, it has to be as simple as possible and is used by many others so that we can interoperate.
Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?
I don't have it yet, just the Mandriva based one...and it worked so well with my PC hardware that I already installed it in one partition. That is the way I solved the vanishing configuration problem. Seems that my LiveCD wish list has been already fulfilled on the Puppy version. 73, Jose, CO2JA --- Andrew O'Brien wrote: Jose, the latest Puppy ISO with PSKMAIL does that, gives an option to save to flashdrive , CD, or a partition on the HD. Andy K3UK __ Participe en Universidad 2008. 11 al 15 de febrero del 2008. Palacio de las Convenciones, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba http://www.universidad2008.cu
[digitalradio] Re: A Beginner's Look at Ham Radio's Digital Future with Jeff Reinhart, AA6JR
What's the problem, Bruce? Under current FCC rules, we can run 100kHz bandwidth data on most HF bands if we want to. Bonnie KQ6XA --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, bruce mallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the ARRL wants to start another fire storm push that 100 khz wide on 6 and 2 meters stuff again
