[digitalradio] Re: 14078.4 Success! (what about PCALE?)

2006-12-27 Thread Andrew O'Brien
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "ve3fwf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Any suggestions for PCALE? Not much activity so one channel per band > should be used. > > 73, Bernie, VE3FWF, Ottawa, Canada > Bernie, As the Canada Goose flies...we are fairly close. 80, 40, and 30M ALE frequen

[digitalradio] Re: 14078.4 Success! (what about PCALE?)

2006-12-27 Thread ve3fwf
Any suggestions for PCALE? Not much activity so one channel per band should be used. 73, Bernie, VE3FWF, Ottawa, Canada --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Salomao Fresco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everybody! > > I don't think they (us) call it "calling frequency" for nothing, bu

[digitalradio] Re: MFSK16 tuning improvement, was:best mode to use for weak signal HF work and

2006-12-27 Thread Vojtech Bubnik
Hi Patrick. Thanks for an answer. > It works on Olivia because this mode uses a transform (Walsh Hadamard), an interleaving and a pseudo-random function: so within a pack of bits defined in time and in frequency there is a very strong correlation and outside the correlation decreases rapidly. Th

Re: [digitalradio] 30M operations

2006-12-27 Thread Danny Douglas
Hear nothing on that freq here in Virginia at 8:27 EST. There is a carrier on 10.14252, but doesnt seem to have any signal on it. Danny Douglas N7DC ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB all DX 2-6 years each . QSL LOTW-buro- direct As courtesy I upload to eQSL but if you

Re: [digitalradio] 30M operations

2006-12-27 Thread KV9U
Tried off an on for about a half hour on 10.142 but no one around, or at least anyone who can hear me. I then went down to the lower part of the band to see if any CW stations around and called CQ and immediately got a response from a VE7. We were both running QRP CW but the band did have sever

Re: [digitalradio] Re : Regional Communications

2006-12-27 Thread Brett Owen Rees VK2TMG
I have made a couple of VK east coast ssb phone contacts on 30m but no digital contacts yet. I have been trying mfsk16 at the recommended frequency of 10142 - I even put some spots in the dx cluster when I was calling. The band is very quiet with very little activity here. It is strange, as one wo

Re: [digitalradio] Re : Regional Communications

2006-12-27 Thread Paul L Schmidt, K9PS
I haven't done much with the 30m allocation -- Rein, PA0R, had some info on it in his posting. In THEORY, it might be good for NVIS during the peak of the sunspot cycle, but this time of the sunspot cycle, NVIS wouldn't be good there. There may be other propagation modes that may provide some sho

Re: [digitalradio] 30M operations

2006-12-27 Thread Danny Douglas
I have 1882 QSOs logged on 30 meters, and 253 countries and have found it an excellent DX Band. That is two more countries than I have on 17 meters, and just 2 less than on 40 meters. It exceeds my country count on 10/12 and of course 80/160 as well. Looking at the logs I have worked a lot of

Re: [digitalradio] Re : Regional Communications

2006-12-27 Thread Danny Douglas
I have had a number of digital QSOs on 30 (mostly PSK) and found people all up and down the band. When I sit on it and call CQ it has been somewhere right around 10.140. Remember that is the "signal" position on the waterfall, which in my case sets the VFO on 10.139, but that figure doesnt mean a

[digitalradio] 30M operations

2006-12-27 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Mel, A couple of weeks ago I monitored 30M (10150) via the APRS HF system, I did so for about two days. The band totally closed a couple of hours after sunset. During the day time it was 200-500 mile range. About 5 years ago, I did the same for a few weeks. 500 miles was about average during

Re: [digitalradio] Re : Regional Communications

2006-12-27 Thread KV9U
In the past, I have often called around 10133 dial frequency +1500 = 10134.5, but with the proposal to go up into the U.S. automatic area, I have been trying 10140.5 +1500 = 10142. In fact, at 2335Z here I have been called CQ in Olivia 8/500. I could of course go to any of the sound card modes

[digitalradio] Re : Regional Communications

2006-12-27 Thread Mel
Hello everyone, The posting by Paul K9PS was very interesting. I have a fascinated interest in 30 metres, primarily because it should be a very useful band for digital activity, and yet the band is always devoid of user. s. May I ask Paul if he could advise us when 30 metres is at its best bec

Re: [digitalradio] MFSK16 tuning improvement, was:best mode to use for weak signal HF work and othe

2006-12-27 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Vojtech, It works on Olivia because this mode uses a transform (Walsh Hadamard), an interleaving and a pseudo-random function: so within a pack of bits defined in time and in frequency there is a very strong correlation and outside the correlation decreases rapidly. This permits to define

[digitalradio] MFSK16 tuning improvement, was:best mode to use for weak signal HF work and othe

2006-12-27 Thread Vojtech Bubnik
Hi Patrick. I wonder whether it would make sense to improve MFSK16 to be more easy to use. The idea is to decode multiple streams in parallel as it is done in Olivia and pick the one with the best S/N. It seems to me that Olivia is only that much popular because it is a lot easier to tune than M

Re: [digitalradio] Regional communications ?

2006-12-27 Thread John Bradley
For a number of years now we have used 80M as a regional net , primary coverage area was all of our province, which is just slightly smaller than Texas in land area. The terrain here is very flat so 6M and 2M will work out quite a ways , but still does not cover the area required. 2M link

Re: [digitalradio] Regional communications ?

2006-12-27 Thread KV9U
We tried using 6 meters for a "local" voice net, but few members had adequate capability and almost no one had horizontal polarization. We thought that we would be able to attract the Technican class hams but no luck with that. Our nets are heavily promoted on the local internet reflector and b

Re: [digitalradio] Regional communications ?

2006-12-27 Thread Paul L Schmidt, K9PS
The correction/clarification wasn't much clearer than the original, was it? I was thinking of the 80-meter loop when I originally posted the 60-foot-or-so length per side; and was referring to the 160m loop when posting that "at 130 feet or so per side, it's pretty big", etc. - ps kd4e wrote: >