[digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Dave Bernstein
I agree that ALE can be used to assemble special-purpose networks based on distinguished nodes, such as your EOC example below. I agree that amateur ALE works fine for groups of 30-60 amateurs sharing propagation. I agree that amateur ALE users can, when propagation results in oversubscribed p

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Robert McGwier
What? That was basically unintelligible. Mil Std 188-110-A1 2400 baud serial modem combines several features to mitigate the channel. Furthermore TWENTY FOUR HUNDRED BAUD DOES NOT MEAN 2400 bps. It almost never does. What happens in the modem is multiple 2400 baud symbols are put toge

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread KV9U
Mark, When I visualize the MT-63 waveform, it seems like many little tones turning off and on, but all running at a very low baud rate. Thus the low baud rate for the mode even though it is a huge width of spectrum. All these years we were told that low baud rates worked better under poor cond

[digitalradio] Re: Experiments with Fast HF PSK Soundcard Modem FS1052/MILSTD188-110

2006-09-01 Thread expeditionradio
OK, Mark. I saw WA3MEL linking with you earlier on 20m, but could not see your sigs at that time. I just now linked with WB6MLC right now on 14342.5kHz. Bonnie --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Mark Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bonnie, > > I will give it a shot if we can get a link be

Re: [digitalradio] Experiments with Fast HF PSK Soundcard Modem FS1052/MILSTD188-110

2006-09-01 Thread Mark Miller
Bonnie, I will give it a shot if we can get a link between us. I can start scanning the 20 meter channels. 73, Mark N5RFX At 07:25 PM 9/1/2006, you wrote: >On HF, I have used the fast PSK modem built into PCALE for sending JPG >and GIF image files in the 20 meter phone band. FS-1052 / MIL ST

[digitalradio] Experiments with Fast HF PSK Soundcard Modem FS1052/MILSTD188-110

2006-09-01 Thread expeditionradio
On HF, I have used the fast PSK modem built into PCALE for sending JPG and GIF image files in the 20 meter phone band. FS-1052 / MIL STD 188-110. If anyone else would like to experiment with this, I'm interested in QSOs. It is a way for US hams to use this cool fast soundcard modem while avoiding

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Mark Miller
>If I gave you some parameters of a waveform, what would you use to base >your measurement of baud rate? I would look at the data, and see how it is modulated into an analog waveform. For FSK we know that a 1 produces one symbol, and a 0 another symbol. MFSK16 the symbols represent 0001

[digitalradio] Practical NVIS antennas

2006-09-01 Thread KV9U
Walt, While I agree with most of what you wrote, there has been so much press and information the past few years that I would expect most hams to have a pretty good understanding of low angle DX vs. high angle NVIS antennas. As long as the dipole is not higher than a quarter wave, you should ha

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread KV9U
Mark, I think I understood you to say earlier that the baud rate is based upon the total waveform. I am having difficulty grasping what that really means. I have spent a LOT of time researching this on the internet and not really finding something that I can picture in my mind like I can with

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Dave, Regarding the Sounding aspect of life, not all stations need to be Sounding and not all stations need to be Sounding once per hour. Sounding can be adjusted to accommodate the loading of a network. The more stations that are ALE active on the same channel less frequent you sound and

RE: [digitalradio] Re: USA; Baud Limit = 300 Symbols Per Second (HF Digital Data)

2006-09-01 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
I've noticed a problem with lots of hams...they want to talk to another ham 50-150 miles away and they try to use a verticle, mobile or G4RV, Craolina Windom or some other crazy antenna and can't make a QSO. When they finally buy a dipole from Delta, SpiRo, etc, they put it up as high as they c

[digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Dave Bernstein
If propagation allows 1000 amateur ALE users to hear each other on the same pilot channel, and they are all sounding for 10 seconds every hour, then wouldn't the pilot channel be massively oversubscribed to the point where no station could decode anything? 1000 users times 10 seconds is 1 s

[digitalradio] Re: USA; Baud Limit = 300 Symbols Per Second (HF Digital Data)

2006-09-01 Thread Dave Bernstein
+++AA6YQ comments below --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >snip< >>>Either you have a very poor 40m antenna, or you're only listening during coronal mass ejections. Over the last couple of evenings, there have been 10-15 stations

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Dave, I really could not say for sure based on your criteria, depending on what you mean as asked. However using ALE and an appropriate Global Allcall or Anycall is very powerful. If the propo is there for the given frequency at the given time of the call, if there were 1,000 stations moni

RE: [digitalradio] Re: USA; Baud Limit = 300 Symbols Per Second (HF Digital Data)

2006-09-01 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
>>>AA6YQ asked --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >snip< >>>Either you have a very poor 40m antenna, or you're only listening during coronal mass ejections. Over the last couple of evenings, there have been 10-15 stations in 40m P

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Rick, At 01:24 PM 9/1/2006, you wrote: >Can you explain how it is that you can run a symbol rate of 2400 (baud) >with 188-110A and it works very well running at this extremely high >speed for HF? And yet other modes, such as Packet, don't work very well >at 300 baud, and Walt has pointed out t

Re: [digitalradio] USA; Baud Limit = 300 Symbols Per Second (HF Digital Data)

2006-09-01 Thread KV9U
Walt, There are typically "layers" of stations on many of the bands. It depends upon your antenna system and to a certain extent, operator skill, when attempting to work really weak stations. It is not uncommon for wall to wall signals where you can not find a decent open area. Not to mention

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Mark, I just seen this after sending you a reply... You go the idea, you actually put it forth simpler than I did as gave you too much detail, but yet just touched the tip of it ! I may have to save your explanation below for a more simple reply in the future, but I can never seem find my

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Mark, The Mil-Std-188-110B serial (single-tone) mode use M-ary Phase-Shift Keying (PSK) on a single carrier frequency (1800hz standard) as the modulation technique for data transmission. The serial binary information is converted into a single 8-ary PSK-modulated output carrier where th

[digitalradio] Re: USA; Baud Limit = 300 Symbols Per Second (HF Digital Data)

2006-09-01 Thread Dave Bernstein
>>>AA6YQ comments below --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >snip< In the case of 40M, if each "data channel" (mode bandwidth) is 5 KHz wide, there would be room for 25 QSOs. I RARELY hear 25 QSOs between 7000 and 7150 KHz on any g

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Mark Miller
After further reading I understand now how it works. The symbol rate is 2400 Baud. The coded (rate 1/2 convolutional ) data rates have differing interleaving depths. 75 has the highest interleaving depth, and 2400 has the lowest interleaving depth. 4800 is not coded nor interleaved. Olivia

RE: [digitalradio] USA; Baud Limit = 300 Symbols Per Second (HF Digital Data)

2006-09-01 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
Oh yes...for many/most folks and even me when I am chatting or even sending a file. But when I am in a disaster operation, I need to send BIG files and FAST, with no errors and under poor ionospheric or atmospheric conditions. At that point in time band width is not relevant. Amateur radio

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Walt, At 10:27 AM 9/1/2006, you wrote: >Steve, > >If you have all the MIL-STD-188-110 features, let me ask four questions. > >1) What is the maximum baud rate or symbol rate of the single PSK carrier? There is a SINGLE carrier. The standard symbol rate is fixed at 2400bps all the time. Some

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread Mark Miller
>The 2400 and 4800 baud is a composite baud rate for the mode/protocol NOT >the discrete baud rate of any individual component of the waveform. Can you explain further? I saw that: "MIL-STD-188-110A serial tone modem is just that, a single PSK carrier frequency that by the standard is locked

RE: [digitalradio] USA; Baud Limit = 300 Symbols Per Second (HF Digital Data)

2006-09-01 Thread Mark Miller
>I wasn't picking on Pawel at all...I just used MT63 as an example. Walt, I understand. My diatribe was to make the point that the occupied bandwidth has a bearing on the general acceptance of a mode. 73, Mark N5RFX Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Ot

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
The 2400 and 4800 baud is a composite baud rate for the mode/protocol NOT the discrete baud rate of any individual component of the waveform. Walt/K5YFW -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 11:07 AM To: digitalra

RE: [digitalradio] USA; Baud Limit = 300 Symbols Per Second (HF Digital Data)

2006-09-01 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
I wasn't picking on Pawel at all...I just used MT63 as an example. My Point was that if you applied a 300 baud/symbol rate to one carrier/tone-tone/carrier and trasnmitted it with one transmitter and had 64 trasnmitters running in the same band or running 64 tones with 300 baud/symbol rate thro

RE: [digitalradio] USA; Baud Limit = 300 Symbols Per Second (HF Digital Data)

2006-09-01 Thread Mark Miller
>So what would be the difference if I transmitted 64 tones/carriers each >modulated at 300 baud but transmitted them through one transmitter or 64 >tones/carriers through 64 transmitters into one antenna? Walt, From a regulatory standpoint I don't think there is a problem. I think that Paw

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread KV9U
Can you explain how it is that you can run a symbol rate of 2400 (baud) with 188-110A and it works very well running at this extremely high speed for HF? And yet other modes, such as Packet, don't work very well at 300 baud, and Walt has pointed out that government studies had show that under 5

RE: [digitalradio] USA; Baud Limit = 300 Symbols Per Second (HF Digital Data)

2006-09-01 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
-Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:56 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] USA; Baud Limit = 300 Symbols Per Second (HF Digital Data) [stuff deleted] This might be true if the 64 tone

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ALE QRM is minimal

2006-09-01 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
Steve, If you have all the MIL-STD-188-110 features, let me ask four questions. 1) What is the maximum baud rate or symbol rate of the single PSK carrier? 2) Have you found that the un-coded 4800bps signal works on normal HF SSB transceivers? 3) What is the robustness of the 2400 and 4800 spee

[digitalradio] Re: USB Sound Card

2006-09-01 Thread Kenneth Monty
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Re: [digitalradio] USA; Baud Limit = 300 Symbols Per Second (HF Digital Data)

2006-09-01 Thread Mark Miller
>There is no equipment for the emission >to be FSK or PSK. This should read there is no requirement for the emission to be FSK or PSK. 73, Mark N5RFX Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/g