[digitalradio] RAIN Report - W2VU Discusses Packet Radio's Resurgence & Emcomm Applications

[Mark Thompson]

 
RAIN Report - W2VU Discusses Packet Radio's Resurgence & Emcomm Application

THIS WEEK: CQ Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU, talks about packet's remarkable 
comeback and its emcom applications. (14 minutes)

http://www.therainreport.com/rainreport_archive/rainreport-4-3-2009.mp3


  

[digitalradio] FORUM SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED FOR 2009 DAYTON HAMVENTION

[Mark Thompson]

==> FORUM SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED FOR 2009 DAYTON HAMVENTION 

One of the many highlights at Dayton Hamvention is the myriad of educational 
and 
fun forums that take place the entire weekend at Hara Arena. The Dayton Amateur 
Radio Association has coordinated 45 unique programs that encompass nearly 80 
hours of programs and activities for the thousands of people expected to attend 
these programs. Hamvention, the largest event of its kind, will be May 15-17 at 
Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio. Please keep in mind that the schedule may change 
before Hamvention.

Friday, May 15
9:15-11:15 -- TAPR Digital Forum (Room 1)
9:15-10:15 -- Engineering Manuals (Room 2)
9:15-10:15 -- Kit Building (Room 3)
9:15-10:15 -- QRP (Room 5)
10:30-12 -- Drake Forum (Room 2)
10:30-12 - Teachers Workshop (Room 3)
10:30-11:30 -- ARRL Field Day (Room 5)
11:30-12:30 -- APRS Forum (Room 1)
11:45-12:45 -- QSL Cards (Room 5)
12:15-1:15 -- ARRL, The Doctor Is IN (Room 2)
12:15-2 -- Ham Radio and the Law (Room 3)
12:45-2:15 -- D-STAR Forum (Room 1)
1-2:15 -- Alternative Energy Forum (Room 5)
1:30-2:30 -- ARRL, Public Relations (Room 2)
2:15-3:30 -- Gordon West (Room 3)
2:30-5 -- Antenna Forum (Room 1)
2:30-5 -- Software defined Radio (Room 5)
2:45-3:45 -- Foxhunting Forum (Room 2)
3:45-5 -- Techniques of the Best Operators (Room 3)
4-5 -- County Hunting Forum (Room 2)

Saturday, May 16
9:15-11:15 -- Contesting Forum (Room 1)
9:15-10:15 -- SATERN Forum (Room 2)
9:15-10:15 - Lightning Grounding Forum (Room 3)
9:15-11:00 - VHF/UHF/Microwave Forum (Room 5)
10:30-11:30 -- ARRL Members Forum (Room 2)
10:30-11:45 -- Heil Sound (Room 3)
11:15-1:30 -- AMSAT Forum (Room 5)
11:30-1:15 -- Youth Forum (Room 1)
11:45-2 -- Newsline Town Meeting (Room 2)
12-1 -- RTTY Forum (Room 3)
1:15-2:15 -- ARRL, Digital Contesting (Room 3)
1:30-2:30 - ARRL Presents Richard Garriott, W5KWQ (Room 1)
1:45-3 -- SSTV Forum (Room 5)
2:15-3:15 -- FCC Forum (Room 2) 
2:30-3:30 -- ARES Forum (Room 3)
2:45-5 -- DX Forum (Room 1)
3:15-5 -- MARS Forum (Room 5)
3:30-5 -- ATV Forum (Room 2)
3:45-5 -- Collins Forum (Room 3)

Sunday, May 17
9:15-10:15 -- Red Cross Forum (Room 1)
9:15-11 -- QCWA Forum (Room 2)
9:15-10:15 -- Volunteers and EmComm Forum (Room 3)
9:30-11:15 - Bicycle Mobile Forum (Room 5)
10:30-11:30 - When All Else Fails, South Carolina Is Ready (Room 1)

For more information on forums at the 2009 Dayton Hamvention, please visit the 
Dayton Hamvention Web site . 


  

[digitalradio] Milcom Monitoring Post

[Andrew O'Brien]

Check

http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2008/03/monitoring-us-army-aviation-nets.html

Since interesting digital frequencies to monitor

[digitalradio] New blood to digital DXCC????

[Vlad UA6JD]

http://twitter.com/NCDXF/status/1552023287


# K4UEE (DXAC Chair): DXAC has been asked to look at separate DXCC awards for 
separate digital modes



 Vlad UA6JD

Re: [digitalradio] Succcess testing PSKmail

[Andy obrien]

Congrats Russell, you are ahead of me , I still have yet to pass traffic.

Andy K3UK

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Russell Blair
 wrote:
>
>
> I was able to connect to WB5CON today and send an email and receive a list
> of email on my email ISP, I was able to delete and message on email ISP
> server as well, but I have lots more to learn about this PSKmail.
>
> Their was a lot of traffic on 30m (10.148) this morning, I had a few time

Re: [digitalradio] Succcess testing PSKmail

[Russell Blair]

I was able to connect to WB5CON today and send an email and receive a list of 
email on my email ISP, I was able to delete and message on email ISP server as 
well, but I have lots more to learn about this PSKmail.
 
Their was a lot of traffic on 30m (10.148) this morning, I had a few time out 
the pactor station were seeing who could stay on the longest (sounding). Thanks 
for all the help.
 
Russell NC5O

Yesterday is HISTORY. Tomorrow is a MYSTERY. Today is a GIFT! Thats why its 
called the PRESENT!


" IN GOD WE TRUST " 

Russell Blair (NC5O)
Skype-Russell.Blair
Hell Field #300
DRCC #55
30m Dig-group #693

--- On Sun, 4/19/09, Per  wrote:

From: Per 
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Trying to test PSKmail ?
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009, 11:05 PM










Hi Russel,


Here is the list of servers with frequencies, scan tables etc:
http://pskmail. wikispaces. com/PSKmailserve rs

Here is a map showing where the current servers and clients are:
http://hermes. esrac.ele. tue.nl/maps/ pskmailers. php

The frequencies are listed as center frequencies, thats dial frequency +/- tone 
offset in fldigi (depending on used sideband). One way is to set the dial to 
10.147, usb and 1000 Hz tone in fldigi (10147+1=10148) . So pse make sure you 
are looking for the servers in the right place. Also, a narrow filter helps.

73, Per, SM0RWO







From: Russell Blair 
To: Digital Radio 
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 10:54:45 PM
Subject: [digitalradio] Trying to test PSKmail ?




Where do I find a server to up dtat with my pop info. I am on 10.148 Khz and 
PSK 250 bit I cant decode any of the station Tx info. any help thanks
Russell

Yesterday is HISTORY. Tomorrow is a MYSTERY. Today is a GIFT! Thats why its 
called the PRESENT!

" IN GOD WE TRUST " 

Russell Blair (NC5O)
Skype-Russell. Blair
Hell Field #300
DRCC #55
30m Dig-group #693


















  

Re: [digitalradio] Positive Feedback

[Tony]

> The RS ID is also present on PocketDigi by Vojtech (OK1IAK)

That is neat Patrick. I bet there are quite a few portable enthusiasts who 
use Pocket Digi. The tiny pocket PC and a rig like the FT-817 would make for 
a fine mini-portable station.

Tony -K2MO


- Original Message - 
From: "Patrick Lindecker" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Positive Feedback


> Hello Tony and all,
>
> The RS ID is also present on PocketDigi by Vojtech (OK1IAK)
>
> 73
> Patrick
>  - Original Message - 
>  From: Tony
>  To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
>  Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 3:34 AM
>  Subject: [digitalradio] Positive Feedback
>
>
>
>
>
>  All,
>
>  Received lots of positive feedback this week about making use of some of 
> the less-used digital modes so lets keep the enthusiasm going.
>
>  Simon Brown mentioned the use of RSID to help with mode recognition. He 
> may add this feature to DM-780 sometime in the future - thank you Simon.
>
>  The ID is very sensitive and certainly takes the guess work out of trying 
> to decipher which mode is being used. Both Fldigi and Multipsk have RSID.
>
>  The mode-of-the-day idea will probably not put more modes on the air so 
> we're still open for suggestion. Mode-specific contests might help, but 
> ultimately we need to simply get on the air and call CQ more often.
>
>  We are fortunate to have so many modes to use and I think we owe it to 
> those who worked hard to bring them to us to use them.
>
>  While we're on the soapbox...
>
>  I think most would agree that we need more real conversation and less 
> macro use regardless of which mode is being used. There's nothing wrong 
> with a quick exchange, but a few words thrown in here and there makes the 
> contact more interesting.
>
>  Tony -K2MO
>
>
>
>
> 

Re: [digitalradio] Positive Feedback

[Patrick Lindecker]

Hello Tony and all,

The RS ID is also present on PocketDigi by Vojtech (OK1IAK)

73
Patrick
  - Original Message - 
  From: Tony 
  To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 3:34 AM
  Subject: [digitalradio] Positive Feedback





  All, 

  Received lots of positive feedback this week about making use of some of the 
less-used digital modes so lets keep the enthusiasm going. 

  Simon Brown mentioned the use of RSID to help with mode recognition. He may 
add this feature to DM-780 sometime in the future - thank you Simon. 

  The ID is very sensitive and certainly takes the guess work out of trying to 
decipher which mode is being used. Both Fldigi and Multipsk have RSID.  

  The mode-of-the-day idea will probably not put more modes on the air so we're 
still open for suggestion. Mode-specific contests might help, but ultimately we 
need to simply get on the air and call CQ more often.   

  We are fortunate to have so many modes to use and I think we owe it to those 
who worked hard to bring them to us to use them. 

  While we're on the soapbox... 

  I think most would agree that we need more real conversation and less macro 
use regardless of which mode is being used. There's nothing wrong with a quick 
exchange, but a few words thrown in here and there makes the contact more 
interesting. 

  Tony -K2MO



  

[digitalradio] Many many Modes!!!

[Tony]

All,

I was very surprised to see so many different chat modes in use on 20 meters 
this afternoon. Not sure if this is a coincidence with the recent posts, but 
whatever it is, lets keep it going. 

Tony -K2MO

Re: [digitalradio] Pactor 1 Frequencies

[John Becker, WØJAB]

Any luck finding a QSO yet Bob?

Take a look at   http://www.hamspots.net under the Pactor
tab for pactor operations. Many world wide are on there.

Just last evening (sunday) about 2240Z had a QSO with 
PY4OLB, Otavio on 14,111CF.

Re: [digitalradio] Positive Feedback

[Siegfried Jackstien]

multipsk
google is your friend
dg9bfc

  - Original Message - 
  From: Gmail - Kevin, Natalia, Stacey & Rochelle 
  To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 8:38 AM
  Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Positive Feedback






  Okay,

  Where can one get a copy of a soundcard based RSID software?

  Regards

  Kevin, ZL1KFM.

- Original Message - 
From: Tony 
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 1:34 PM
Subject: [digitalradio] Positive Feedback



All, 

Received lots of positive feedback this week about making use of some of 
the less-used digital modes so lets keep the enthusiasm going. 

Simon Brown mentioned the use of RSID to help with mode recognition. He may 
add this feature to DM-780 sometime in the future - thank you Simon. 

The ID is very sensitive and certainly takes the guess work out of trying 
to decipher which mode is being used. Both Fldigi and Multipsk have RSID.  

The mode-of-the-day idea will probably not put more modes on the air so 
we're still open for suggestion. Mode-specific contests might help, but 
ultimately we need to simply get on the air and call CQ more often.   

We are fortunate to have so many modes to use and I think we owe it to 
those who worked hard to bring them to us to use them. 

While we're on the soapbox... 

I think most would agree that we need more real conversation and less macro 
use regardless of which mode is being used. There's nothing wrong with a quick 
exchange, but a few words thrown in here and there makes the contact more 
interesting. 

Tony -K2MO


  

Re: [digitalradio] MFTT - questions

[Siegfried Jackstien]

yes capturing means tuning and switching to proper speed
yes one of the 2 stations must capture the others pilot tone to tune in
both soundcards have to be tuned / calculated properly for the slower modes
if the other station is very far in the noise and you don´t capture the pilot 
it not easy to tune in
but when you tuned in in good conditions and the condition fall down you can 
switch to slower mode and finish the qso... once tuned in the other has only to 
switch to slower speed
not change the tuned frequency  only the speed
hope that helps a bit
dg9bfc
sigi

  - Original Message - 
  From: Bob 
  To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 2:57 AM
  Subject: [digitalradio] MFTT - questions





  I tried out MFTT Sunday. Made a half dozen qsos and have all kinds of 
questions - hopefully someone else here has used the program before. Lots of 
activity on the digitalradio sked page. 

  Capuring a "pilot" signal automatically matches the mode and speed to the 
originating station? Yes .. No ?

  If the receiving station captures the cqing station's "pilot" signal, the 
cqing station does not need to capture the receiving. Is that correct?

  I'm thinking that if both capture, one station will constantly be off ... not 
sure ...

  I found out real quick you must be absolutely sure that both stations are 
locked before gertting into longer exchanges.

  I would be great to get a discussion going on this mode. Lots of new guys 
checking out the new mode.

  If you haven't tried - see the lastest QRZ article. Software is a free 
download and simple.

  Bob - K3MQ



  

Re: [digitalradio] Positive Feedback

[Simon (HB9DRV)]

MultiPSK and fldigi support this, RS-ID is *not* a QSO mode, rather a way of 
reliably indicating the mode being used.

Simon Brown, HB9DRV
www.ham-radio-deluxe.com
  - Original Message - 
  From: Gmail - Kevin, Natalia, Stacey & Rochelle 

  Where can one get a copy of a soundcard based RSID software?