Re: {Disarmed} Re: [digitalradio] Dumb Question

[Philip Leonard WVØT]

Siegfried Jackstien wrote:
> NO mftty is a new mode with a new software
> it is not rtty
> so can´t be use for rtty stations
> hope that answers your question

What is MFTTY?  Google doesn't turn up much.

Re: {Disarmed} [digitalradio] National Packet Radio Registry

[Philip Leonard WVØT]

What kind of traffic (personal not bulletins) is on the packet network 
these days?




Mark Thompson wrote:
>  
> *National Packet Radio Registry *
> 
> USPacket.org is happy to announce our *National Packet Radio Registry*.
> 
> This is a registry for US Packet operators who would like to exchange 
> Packet mail with other radio hams.
> 
> To register your packet address with the NPRR, send a personal Packet 
> message to:
> 
> NPRR @ N5PVL.#STX.TX.USA.NA
> 
> Any message title will do... "Register" would be OK.
> 
> You should include the following information in the message text:
> 
> Your Name ( or what you like to go by )
> Your location ( City, State )
> 
> After the message is received at N5PVL BBS, the information will be 
> posted at USPacket, and distributed in NPRR bulletins on the Packet 
> network.
> 
> To recap: For a registration to go through, it must be sent as a 
> personal email through the Packet network, and it should include your 
> name and location.
> 
> 
> USPacket: http://www.uspacket.org 
> 
> 
> 
> */Charles Brabham, N5PVL/*
> 
> 
> Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See 
> how.  
> 

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Flushing buffer ?

[Philip Leonard WVØT]

jhaynesatalumni wrote:
  >> If there is text left to be transmitted, the program will send all
>> except the last word, no matter how long or short the message may be, 
>> until I hit "Enter" again. 
> 
> I imagine this is intentional on the part of the programmer - you have
> to hit enter or maybe space after the last word.  That's how it knows
> whether you are finished transmitting for a while or whether you have
> just paused to think or catch up.

Make sure you are not in "word" mode.  If you are it will not transmit 
the last word until it sees a space or an  directive.

Philip

Re: [digitalradio] Re: RTTY Configurations

[Philip Leonard WVØT]

jhaynesatalumni wrote:
> --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Simon Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> What are the common RTTY configurations? I ask because I am in the
> middle of porting / rewriting the fldigi RTTY code but have never used
> RTTY myself. I'm thinking about combinations of baud / shift / bits /
> .
>> Simon Brown, HB9DRV
>>
> Well of course 170 Hz shift and 45.45 baud is the most common and about
> the only thing you'll ever hear on the ham bands.  And there is hardly
> enough RTTY outside the ham bands to bother with anymore.  There is some
> 75 baud weather type traffic I guess, and they may use 850 or 425 shift.
> Then a military standard is/was 85 Hz shift, and I've been wanting to
> try this on the ham bands but haven't found anybody to sked with so far.
> There was a net for military radio collectors that was using 850 Hz and
> 45.45 baud.  50 baud used to be popular in Europe (standard speed for
> Telex machines) but I get the impression that has died out for ham use.
> Then there is the PK-232 that uses 200 Hz shift because it has only one
> narrow shift and that is their compromise between 170 Hz for RTTY and
> 200 for Pactor/Amtor.  So you might want to make a shift of
> 185 or so to allow copy of both sides of a QSO where one is using
> 170 Hz and the other is using 200.  And 200 so optimum performance
> when talking to a PK-232.
> 
> There's also Minimum Shift Keying where the shift is equal to the
> baud rate (or is it half the baud rate) but I've never encountered
> it on the air.

Does anyone run 100wpm ASCII RTY anymore?