Re: [digitalradio] Enter-to-Send MixW / DM780?
In DM780 you can press F1 (I think). FWIW I'm working on a new logbook which oddly enough will allow me to create a half-way decent contest interface in DM780. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Tony d...@optonline.net Anyone know if there's a way to set-up the macros in DM780 or possibly Mixw to do this?
Re: [digitalradio] Re: FT-450 on digimodes
I must say that I agree with Bonnie - this is either a poor radio design or more likely you've got a 'duff' radio. I don't think the SignaLink is the problem. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: expeditionradio expeditionra...@yahoo.com It is not normal specifications to have 12dB tilt (or more) within the passband of an SSB transmitter. The engineer's response to your measured graph of power vs passband frequency indicates that either the engineer is BS'ing you, or the engineer is unqualified to determine the problem.
Re: [digitalradio] Signalink USB Problems
You are overloading the input to the SignaLink - try dropping the audio output from the radio. Or - it could actually be the other station :-) Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: n4hra lew_j...@att.net I am having a problem with a new Signalink USB depending on how strong a station is I get multl signal on the waterfalls from the same station. it does not matter what PSK software I am running.
Re: [digitalradio] Re: What is this signal?
MT-63 requires a very accurate soundcard calibration. 1% out of calibration (or even less) and MT-63 struggles. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Leslie Elliott denalid...@gmail.com Thanks, I kind of figured it out myself. There was a QSO I was listening to later, which switched from PSK to MT63. However, I could not get a decode after they switched. I'm using DM780, and try as I might, carefully adjusting the trace back and forth to try to center it on the signal, I could get nothing but gibberish printed out. Don't know what was the problem. Any suggestions? It was MT63-500 according to the width of the waterfall trace.
Re: [digitalradio] RESOLVED : : Broken PC question
Looks like you and I studied engineering at the same university :-) Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Andy obrien k3uka...@gmail.com I gave a BIG wiggle on the video cable at the PC connector and after about a minute of wiggling, akin to just banging it !
Re: [digitalradio] Old question .. USB sound card , whats a good one for data ??
Forget the very small dongles - in the UK why not a Edirol UA-1EX from http://www.imuso.co.uk/ProductDetail.asp?StockCode=ST00605 ? Just check driver availability for your operating system. I use a USInterface.com Navigator and EDIROL FA-66 but that's an expensive option albeit excellent! Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Graham g0...@hotmail.com Old question .. USB sound card , whats a good one for data ??
[digitalradio] Free M-Audio Delta 44 Soundcard
Free inside Switzerland - works great with XP, just surplus to my requirements now. http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Delta44.html Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com
Re: [digitalradio] Re: Free M-Audio Delta 44 Soundcard
Nice try :-) Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Graham g0...@hotmail.com If I look closely I can just see the top of snaefell .. if thats worth any points ?
Re: [digitalradio] Nominations for the 2008 Digitalradio Awards
FLDIGI and the new Thor mode? Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Andy obrien [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is that time again, time to think about nominees for the 5th Annual Digitalradio Awards. Please email your suggestions, I will publish the winners January 1 2009.
Re: [digitalradio] Re: Olivia mode comparisons, testers needed.
Vojtech, If you can improve this with Pawel's code base many developers would be most grateful :-) Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Vojtech Bubnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe Pawel's code may be improved to decrease time lag in case the decoder is already locked to a strong signal. Also if a strong correlation is detected, one does not need to wait another 1 second for even stronger signal, because this is highly improbable. I believe Patrick's MFSK is doing both.
Re: [digitalradio] RF Space SDR-IQ RX ?
Been watching the Muppet show today Andy :-) ? Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Andrew O'Brien Just ran in to someone that uses a RF Space SDR-IQ RX , looks very useful. Anyone in this group using one for ham digital mode monitoring ?
Re: [digitalradio] Re: Olivia mode comparisons, testers needed.
The lag is in the software - it's part of the design for the error correction. Where error correction is part of the design then *in general* with Ham modes you have to wait a while before text is decoding is the error correction is applied. The lag is not caused by CPU load. To really understand this it's best to analyse the Olivia design although this can be rough for the brain :-) Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: captcurt2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sooo. a 500Mhhz machine running at 20% is going to perform the integrations and decoding same delay as a 2 Ghz machine running at 20%?? That seems counter intuitive to me.. I'm sure you're right but I don't understand how that can be. I thought the load information talked about resources not speed of execution. Help me understand..
Re: [digitalradio] Re: Olivia mode comparisons, testers needed.
MIPS shouldn't have any effect as long as the CPU doesn't run at 100%. Olivia likes a calibrated soundcard. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: captcurt2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] How are you going to make sense of the variety of MIPS performance across different testers, or are you just looking for trends. A is faster here than B, etc?
Re: [digitalradio] Decoding differences
Nope - the code is almost the same - it'll be soundcard calibration issues. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Cortland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just this morning I came across a net running in Olivia 8-tone/1000Hz. It decoded poorly in one SW package, better in another, and best of all in a third. I think this must be due to the decoding algorithms of the software packages, as I get different rankings in other modes.
[digitalradio] Windows Only: Soundcard Alternative
This is a windows-only question. It a SDR application were to make data available for use in digital mode programs using something other than a virtual soundcard, what options would be feasible? TCP/IP server? Mailslots? I want to be sure that I haven't missed the obvious here. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com
Re: [digitalradio] Sound card question
It means that the drivers are better - the internal clock runs at 48kHz, other rates are created by either the driver or (very often) Windows. Windows XP does not do a good job of this, VISTA however is excellent at converting the sample rates. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Dave 'Doc' Corio [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've calibrated my sound card (Diamond PCI) two ways, using MMSSTV at 48000 Hz, and MMTTY at 11025 Hz. Here are the results of the calibration: MMSSTV 195 PPM 48009.37 MMTTY 6984 PPM 11102
Re: [digitalradio] Re: Sound card question
A significant difference between TX and RX can result in an offset. During my holidays in Oct / Nov I will add full soundcard calibration for all modes in DM780. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] What impact, if any, does the error in sampling rate have on any TX/RX offset? During the Tara Rumble I noticed that almost every station that responded to my CQ, came back a bit lower in frequency than mine. One station I responded to even told me I was off- frequency. I don't believe my IC-746 has any offset, and my RIT/XIT was off. Does that large error rate of 6984 ppm create an offset, and can I determine how great it is?
Re: [digitalradio] Comparing data modes
Dave, IMO any data program will be talking to the soundcard with a nice big FIFO so CPU shouldn't be an issue. From memory I use a 10 second FIFO on receive and 2 second on transmit. I can't think of any problems that could arise as long as there are some free CPU cycles. What am I missing? Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Dave AA6YQ If you're referring to CPU usage as reported by the Windows Task Manager, that's an average. The question is whether any app is being starved for CPU resources during critical operations.
Re: [digitalradio] Comparing data modes
DM780 samples at 8kHz and has a lot of encoder / decoder code in common with fldigi. MT63 / Olivia having being taken from Pavel's original code. I'll try to find the Microsoft Blog entries which explain why some rates such as 11,025Hz are so poor with W2K / XP but not with VISTA. It's not a compromise - anyway with luck I'll find this explanation this morning. FWIW I generate 8kHz from 48kHz sampling using Moe's code. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Dave AA6YQ Also, there is no reason to believe that the two applications would be equally penalized by a compromise sampling rate -- so the results of the comparison would be suspect unless its known that both applications use the same sampling rate. -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave AA6YQ Its my understanding that when multiple simultaneously running applications are using the soundcard with different sampling rates, that Windows delivers a compromise sampling rate. Thus comparisons run on the same PC may not accurately reflect each application's performance in isolation.
Re: [digitalradio] Comparing data modes
I'm sure fldigi uses 8kHz in general and 11,025 when needed for some Thor / DominoEx modes. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - The sample rates were 11025 Hz for Mixw and IZ8BLY MT63 terminal. Looks like 8000 Hz for DM780 and Multipsk. Not sure what's going on with Fldigi. I'm using the Vista version.
Re: [digitalradio] Sound Card general question
- Original Message - From: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I got my current sound card, the first thing I did was to run the various calibration routines from MMTTY, DM780, and MultiPSK. These calibration routines showed the card was off by 181 parts-per- million. I set up the various software accordingly and all was well. This offset shouldn't really have a big affect - I would be wondering about squelch levels or even the soundcard. What is the soundcard? Internal or external? RTTY is nowhere near as good as PSK when it comes to weak signals. I've encountered someone with a soundcard running in surround mode :-( Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com
Re: [digitalradio] No More Soundcards
I think you get a soundcard on the PC - just like with the SignaLink USB, Navigator etc. Also I'm sure the sound is available via the rear connectors. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Rein Couperus [EMAIL PROTECTED] This means flexibility is gone unless the rig dsp software is open source and programmable? Announce your digital presence via our Interactive Sked Page at http://www.obriensweb.com/sked 30M digital activity at http://www.projectsandparts.com/30m Recommended software : DM780, Multipsk, FLDIGI, Winwarbler ,MMVARI. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [digitalradio] Soundblaster cards and digital applications
I agree with Skip. My guess is a driver issue. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: kh6ty [EMAIL PROTECTED] I seriously doubt that your problems are caused by the SoundBlaster or fldigi, but most likely by something we do not know about your system.
Re: [digitalradio] Mixw news
OMG, should have been: 'Only members of that group...' ! I tried to join some years ago - got blacklisted! Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Simon Brown (KNS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only member so the that group can read the messages - could you post the relevant details here please?
Re: [digitalradio] FL-DIGI PTT ?
Andy, You *cannot* use CAT for PTT with the TS-2000 and provide audio via the rear connector. You must toggle a ACC pin for PTT - see the DM780 PTT page. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] So much for emergency preparedness ! I find myself unable to get the rig in to transmit mode with FL-digi 3.02. I did have it PTTing OK with 3.01. If I initialize, TX happens ...but stays on and does not switch to RX when the RX button is pressed. I have successfully got the TS-2000 to talk to FL-digi since the correct frequency is displayed in FL-DIGI. If I have rig control via comm port, should I be selecting another comm port for PTT? This is what I did ...but no luck
Re: [digitalradio] Grouply spam/theft attacks
Andy, Please explain how to disable a group from Grouply please. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonnie alerted me to this today, FYI this Yahoogroup has been disabled from Grouply, so all should be ok
Re: [digitalradio] Grouply spam/theft attacks
Thanks. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go to http://www.grouply.com/owner_controls.php, see bottom of page, click on link a bottom of page , then at next page enter in your owner email address for the group, you will then get a code than you can insert to enable or disable from Grouply
Re: [digitalradio] HRD: Script error when running DX Cluster
To be honest, no - I will look into this tomorrow as I have a feeling I can stop it inside the HRD code but it's something you've got on your system which causes this :-( I think I stopped it with the IE browsers inside DM780. I assume it's HRD causing the problem, not DM780? Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Ian Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED] You'll remember the above thread. I've now downloaded the latest HRD (Version 4 SP4 build 1901 Jul 10 2008), and tried various combinations of disable script debugging and display notification as above, but the problem is still there.
Re: [digitalradio] New Digital Mode Winmor
I really hope the code or at least a DLL is made available. Anything to get rid of PACTOR III has my vote (I do not like the licencing issues involved). Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Bob Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looks interesting. I wonder if enough information will be made available to allow duplicating the modem under other operating systems and platforms. Hopefully, the development team is actually doing parallel development for use in *nix environments.
Re: [digitalradio] Navigator interface
I have one here - I think it's excellent. Currently driving a TS-2000, also use it with the K3. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: wb4lzq [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is anyone using one? If so your comments would be appreciated.
Re: [digitalradio] New digital mode interface due for release 25/08/08
Yes, I've been using and recommending Neil's products since almost the day he started, he was a close friend of Peter PH1PH (SK). A real good egg is Neil. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone familiar with this company?
Re: [digitalradio] New digital mode interface due for release 25/08/08
Quote from Neil's website: This new product will ship on Monday 25th August 2008 Shirley Monday's a bank holiday :-) Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.g4zlp.co.uk/unified/DM_AudioPRO_complete.shtml
Re: [digitalradio] New digital mode interface due for release 25/08/08
It's a brand-new shiny product. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] idle curiosity but is this a reverse engineered or just a rebranded Tigertronics SL/USB???
Re: [digitalradio] Re: Amazing new software from Simon HB9DRV
Put back a few days, I forgot something :-( Some pics anyway - http://www.ham-radio-deluxe.com/Programs/HRDSatelliteTracking/tabid/97/Default.aspx Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] This may be released to the publio in the next 24 hours, visit the HRD web site
