[digitalradio] Small Fonts (was Good HF conditions)

2006-04-14 Thread Paul L Schmidt
I see in your headers: User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) I'm running an older version of Mozilla under Linux, but I'd imagine the toolbar and set-up options are still similar. There should be an option somewhere (on mine, it's View->Text Zoom) to enlarge the font for you if t

[digitalradio] Re: FSK the old way

2006-04-14 Thread Michael
Hi, Ralph, --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Ralph Mowery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For most bands below 30 mhz it is not legal to feed > the audio into an AM transmitter to run AFSK RTTY. All bands, I believe. And I know. IT was just my rather odd sense of humor showing up in its usua

[digitalradio] Re: FSK the old way

2006-04-14 Thread Michael
Hi, Jerry, A copy of the New RTTY Handbook will be headed this way thanks to the generosity of one of the participants here as will an article on the subject from another. However, I shall add the other publications to the list of ones for which I'm looking (Anyone happen to have spare copies

Re: [digitalradio] Good HF conditions

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin O'Rorke
DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA wrote: > Yes sir...depending where the water table is. > > I measures the impedance of a 40M dipole laying on the Saudi desert > floor and it was 50 ohms. > > In another place in the desert, it was 17 ohms. We dug down about > 8-10 ft and found rocks and wet sand

Re: [digitalradio] Macintosh software?

2006-04-14 Thread KV9U
At this time, Microsoft has the reining OS of the world. This has no bearing on a bias toward or against ... it is the current reality. Personally, I have used Linux variants off and on for many years now and plan to install one computer with only Linux (again) when I get a more powerful comput

RE: [digitalradio] Re: FSK the old way

2006-04-14 Thread LELAND ZANTESON
I have a copy of the "The New RTTY Handbook" and you are welcome to it.  Tell me where to mail it.   Lee W6FPO 626-792-8909   LELAND ZANTESON [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.   Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to  Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Do we really need to know?

2006-04-14 Thread Andrew O'Brien
On 4/13/06, Dave Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's amazing is how much of what we were tought in the 60's was > flat-out wrong: > Can't resist one from my college pharmacology professor: "If you are going to do drugs, Cocaine is the only one NOT addictive" . The irony is that both h

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Do we really need to know?

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Hatzakis, Jr
this is great stuff...!!Jerry W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you had one of these computers, they would be something to hide inthe basement, not tell any one, think of the energy consumed.Compu-Promo  See:http://www.lileks.com/institute/compupromo/index.htmlThe author writes a column for the M

[digitalradio] Re: Do we really need to know?

2006-04-14 Thread Jerry W
If you had one of these computers, they would be something to hide in the basement, not tell any one, think of the energy consumed. Compu-Promo See: http://www.lileks.com/institute/compupromo/index.html The author writes a column for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Jerry - K0HZI --- In digita

RE: [digitalradio] Good HF conditions

2006-04-14 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
Title: RE: [digitalradio] Good HF conditions Yes sir...depending where the water table is.  I measures the impedance of a 40M dipole laying on the Saudi desert floor and it was 50 ohms. In another place in the desert, it was 17 ohms.  We dug down about 8-10 ft and found rocks and wet sa

Re: [digitalradio] navtex on linux

2006-04-14 Thread Kristoff Bonne
Rein, Rein Couperus PA0R schreef: I use gMFSK + PSKmail to read the Navtex messages from the internet. Much faster and 0 errors as PSKmail uses real ARQ. I also use it to download grib files with the wind information of the Atlantic when I am sailing. Thanks for the info. But as I do not sa

Re: [digitalradio] Macintosh software?

2006-04-14 Thread Rein Couperus PA0R
This is a bit of a one-sided Micro$oft plug... depends what you want to call 'good' software... What about Xlog, Klog, gMFSK, Tlf, Xdx, XCW, Xastir, Xcall, gpredict, gpsk31, grig, FSK441, JT44, Pileup, hamlib, various drivers for TT ORION, NEC4Linux etc etc etc etc... Is it no good because you don

RE: [digitalradio] navtex on linux (was: Do we really need to know?)

2006-04-14 Thread Dave Cole (NK7Z/NNN0RDO)
Thank you sir!! Thanks, Dave NK7Z/NNN0RDO http://www.nk7z.net Natural laws have no pity. --Lazarus Long -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kristoff Bonne Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 06:17 To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject:

Re: [digitalradio] navtex on linux (was: Do we really need to know?)

2006-04-14 Thread Rein Couperus PA0R
Hi Kristoff, I use gMFSK + PSKmail to read the Navtex messages from the internet. Much faster and 0 errors as PSKmail uses real ARQ. I also use it to download grib files with the wind information of the Atlantic when I am sailing. 73, Rein PA0R On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 11:27 +0200, Kristoff Bonn

Re: [digitalradio] navtex on linux (was: Do we really need to know?)

2006-04-14 Thread Kristoff Bonne
Gegroet, Dave Cole (NK7Z/NNN0RDO) schreef: Can someone tell me what freq NAVTEX transmissions are on please? The main frequencies are 518 Khz for the "international" (i.e. english-language) broadcasts and 490 Khz for "local" information. You can find the schedule here: http://home.cogeco

Re: [digitalradio] Macintosh software?

2006-04-14 Thread KV9U
Lynn, Without question, the majority of the good software is on MS Windows. In fact, many modes are not even available for *nix OS's such as Linux, Mac X, etc. The installed user base is many times higher for MS products at the desktop level and most programmers focus on that platform or only

RE: [digitalradio] navtex on linux (was: Do we really need to know?)

2006-04-14 Thread Dave Cole (NK7Z/NNN0RDO)
Can someone tell me what freq NAVTEX transmissions are on please? Thanks, Dave NK7Z/NNN0RDO http://www.nk7z.net Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant. --Robert Heinlein Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Tel

[digitalradio] Macintosh software?

2006-04-14 Thread lynnmonsanto
Hi all, Any good Macintosh software for digital radio? I found a darwin port of Xaster, but that was about it. Black Cat Software has a few things, but MultiMode doesn't look very powerful. Am I wasting my time? Is all the good software on Windows? Thanks and 73! Lynn - W6JAE Need a Dig

[digitalradio] navtex on linux (was: Do we really need to know?)

2006-04-14 Thread Kristoff Bonne
Gegroet, AA0OI schreef: You know what really bakes my cookies.. I put on a sceince paper in the third grade that there were more than 9 planets and they marked it wrong.. ( ha ha) Well, the funny thing is that it may be that we will only have eigth of them soon. It may be that pluto will lo