[digitalradio] Re: 80M ALE 3596khz

2007-03-07 Thread expeditionradio
The frequency is time-shared with W1AW and it has been frequency coordinated with the Winlink2000 network. Time-sharing is the nature of operating in an Automatic Subband. Any other questions? Bonnie KQ6XA --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, John Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pardon

[digitalradio] 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination Info

2007-03-07 Thread expeditionradio
For informal reference purposes, here is a listing resulting from frequency coordination and re-arranging of nets and operating frequencies that has been going on since the new USA 80 meter sub-bands went into effect. This listing has been gathered and coordinated through a combination of direc

Re: [digitalradio] 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination Info

2007-03-07 Thread Rick Scott
The only Coodination I see is WINLINK trying to grab all the available Frequencies Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=39

[digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Dave
Has anyone tried using either a 250 Hz or 500 Hz filter for PSK31 reception? My Icom IC-746 (non-Pro) has no filters installed, and is wide as a barn door on USB for PSK31. I wondered if either of these filters would help, or would they be too narrow? The pass-band shift does a fair job of elim

Re: [digitalradio] 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination Info

2007-03-07 Thread Joe Ivey
And they may well do just that. Joe W4JSI - Original Message - From: Rick Scott To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination Info The only Coodination I see is WINLINK trying to gra

[digitalradio] Re: 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination Info

2007-03-07 Thread expeditionradio
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only Coodination I see is WINLINK trying to grab > all the available Frequencies Hi Scott, There is no grab happening. Everyone has to operate somewhere in this small band. Since the sub-band changes are fairly new

[digitalradio] 5R8GZ and 5V7SE are both QRV 20m RTTY

2007-03-07 Thread Dave Bernstein
Its a good day for digital DXing! 73, Dave, AA6YQ

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread kv9u
Hi Dave, Yes, the narrower filters will help a great deal. I have an ICOM rig that needs to be centered on 1500 Hz when operating in SSB modes so I try and move them to that point if I can. Then I have DSP filters that enable me to close the "window" as tight as I need to. I also have Twin PBT

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Dave Doc
Thanks, Rick. The 500 Hz makes sense, since some of the modes are over 250 Hz. I have the twin passband, too, but it's just not as effective as I'd like. The APF/ANF on the non-Pro works great on CW, and with just the APF on narrow, I can narrow the passband down to around 30 Hz, but that doesn't

Re: [digitalradio] 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination Info

2007-03-07 Thread Rein Couperus
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > Gesendet: 07.03.07 19:42:54 > An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > Betreff: Re: [digitalradio] 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination Info > > The only Coodination I see is WINLINK trying to grab > all the available Frequencies

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Rein Couperus
We generally use 300 Hz filters for PSK125 and they are too wide. There is no substitute for good narrow Xtal filters. I don't understand how you can try to work PSK31 (50 Hz bandwidth) with a 2.7 kHz filter. That is against all logic (and math). We recommand using the narrowest filters you can g

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Danny Douglas
I have a hard time visualizing the need for a narrow filter, for such narrow modes. You can sit, in PSK for instance, slap up against another PSK signal and still copy much weaker signals. Thats the whole purpose of the narrow band digital modes to start with. I use WinWarbler (now) to do my digi

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Leigh L Klotz, Jr.
Other strong signals in the passband of the IF will densense the following stages and cause AGC action. If you have no AGC, then you will overdrive the sound card audio stage with the strong signal in an attempt to copy the wreak one. The DSP filter in ICOM rigs is at the IF level and is accomp

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Dave Corio
Thanks, Rein, for confirming what I suspected. For a fixed frequency/mode such as pskmail, I'd have to agree completely, but for general use, such as me running PSK31 for one QSO, maybe RTTY for another, and Olivia for yet another, I think the 500 Hz would probably be my best option. Tnx e

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Danny Douglas
Ok I knew there must be some reason, for all the people yelling for it, but have never suffered that particular problem, and if I did I would be flummuxed, as I use the broadband PSK copy all the time. Danny Douglas N7DC ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB all DX 2-6 years ea

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Dave Corio
Thanks, Danny, but the key to what you said is "Todays rigs, with their dsp filtering...". My 746 is the non-Pro version, and does not have the DSP filtering at all. In USB mode, the bandwidth is greater than 2.6 Khz. Yes, given two signals of around S-5 that are side by side, I can copy eit

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Irvine
Hi Rick/Dave, When the copy gets tough I use a 350hz (-6db) ICOM FL-232 filter in my ICOM-706mkII for copying Olivia 16tones/500hz. The filter skirts are not sharp so it works ok. I used that setup to copy Juergen DL8LE and Massimo IZ0GKZ recently on those EU/NA tests on 160m.

Re: [digitalradio] 5R8GZ and 5V7SE are both QRV 20m RTTY

2007-03-07 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Drats, I was going to skip work early and head homehope I can find 'em. Andy K3UK On 3/7/07, Dave Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Its a good day for digital DXing! 73, Dave, AA6YQ -- Andy K3UK Skype Me : callto://andyobrien73 www.obriensweb.com

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Andrew O'Brien
I agee with Danny and don't quite "get" what Leigh is saying. Dave's question is an interesting one because with my 3-week old DSP capable rig I, have been experimenting with the issue Dave raised. I have the ability to go down to 50 Hz IF-DSP filtering , but to be honest I find the digital ba

[digitalradio] Re: 5R8GZ and 5V7SE are both QRV 20m RTTY

2007-03-07 Thread Dave Bernstein
5V7SE is still on 14085 working up 1; 20m should be good for another hour or two... 73, Dave, AA6YQ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Drats, I was going to skip work early and head homehope I can find 'em. > > Andy K3UK > >

[digitalradio] Re: narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Bill McLaughlin
Well, You are all correct... as usual "it depends"; in this case it depends on mode, band and operating style. If I were, for example, using the "panoramic" type operation to look for a snap-shot of what was going on in cw, rtty or psk modes using Multipsk, I would opt for a fairly wide open fil

[digitalradio] Re: 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination Info

2007-03-07 Thread w7psk
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "expeditionradio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick Scott wrote: > > > > The only Coodination I see is WINLINK trying to grab > > all the available Frequencies > > Hi Scott, > > There is no grab happening. Everyone has t

Re: [digitalradio] 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination Info

2007-03-07 Thread Roger J. Buffington
Rick Scott wrote: > > The only Coodination I see is WINLINK trying to grab all the > available Frequencies I can summarize the gist of Bonny's "coordination" with much fewer bytes: 3.5 Mhz-4.0 Mhz -- Winlink de Roger W6VZV

Re: [digitalradio] Re: 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination Info

2007-03-07 Thread Danny Douglas
I dont understand why all the different winlink freqs. Are all these going to be on at the same time? Looks like state organizations so wonder why they cant share the same freqs? Particularlly when there is NO emergency. Frankly, the FCC really screwed up on this one, and I hope someone, other t

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Roger J. Buffington
Rein Couperus wrote: > We generally use 300 Hz filters for PSK125 and they are too wide. > There is no substitute for good narrow Xtal filters. I don't > understand how you can try to work PSK31 (50 Hz bandwidth) with a 2.7 > kHz filter. That is against all logic (and math). > > We recommand u

Re: [digitalradio] Re: 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination Info

2007-03-07 Thread Roger J. Buffington
expeditionradio wrote: > Hi Scott, > > There is no grab happening. Everyone has to operate somewhere in this > small band. Since the sub-band changes are fairly new, the only > coordination entities listed so far have been well-organized ones > like ARRL NTS, Winlink2000, ARRL's W1AW station,

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread John Bradley
using my TS480SAT with both CW filters, can get really narrow on PSK and still copy. don't know much about the IC746. can you menu select cw filters for ssb(digital) reception on USB? or do they only work in CW? John VE5MU - Original Message - From: Dave To: digitalradio@yahoo

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Dave Corio
The 746 allows you to select any filter for any mode, thank goodness!! 73 Dave KB3MOW John Bradley wrote: using my TS480SAT with both CW filters, can get really narrow on PSK and still copy. don't know much about the IC746. can you menu select cw filters for ssb(digital) reception on

[digitalradio] Re: Narrow?

2007-03-07 Thread expeditionradio
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Danny Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope someone, other > than automatic groups, complains enough so that we are given back some of > our narrowmode only portions. > > Danny Douglas N7DC I have never heard of narrowmode only portions before, Danny.

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Roger J. Buffington
Danny Douglas wrote: > > I have a hard time visualizing the need for a narrow filter, for such > narrow modes. You can sit, in PSK for instance, slap up against > another PSK signal and still copy much weaker signals. Thats the > whole purpose of the narrow band digital modes to start with. I u

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Roger J. Buffington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know all the capabilities of my rig ft-897 and psk31 but the > other day I had a what appeared to be a 100 watt plus psk31 station > that basically with AGC reduced the signal reaching my computer so > much that I couldn't copy almost any station never mind we

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Narrow?

2007-03-07 Thread Danny Douglas
Well Bonnie the whole of the bottom of almost every band is narrow mode. That is by rule, as well as common use and has been since voice first came on the air. The cw,rtty, data subbands are considered narrow mode, and the top of the bands for VOICE and Image are wider, thus wide bands. Lets pu

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Danny Douglas
I am simply saying that I have not had to use such techniques or filters since I started using PSK. I have worked 133 countries in the mode, using my SSB filters, and have yet to have even a nearby signal block out one of them so badly I couldnt copy it. Maybe its my TS570s, my software, my loca

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread Roger J. Buffington
Dave wrote: > > Has anyone tried using either a 250 Hz or 500 Hz filter for PSK31 > reception? My Icom IC-746 (non-Pro) has no filters installed, and is > wide as a barn door on USB for PSK31. I wondered if either of these > filters would help, or would they be too narrow? > > The pass-band sh

[digitalradio] Re: Narrow?

2007-03-07 Thread expeditionradio
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Danny Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well Bonnie the whole of the bottom of almost every band is > narrow mode. > That is by rule, as well as common use and has been since > voice first came on the air. > FCCs action of moving the SSB portion down

Re: [digitalradio] narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-07 Thread kv9u
Like most things, there is a middle path on this. Most of the time I can operate digital modes with a wide setting on my passband. The maximum on my ICOM 756 Pro 2 is 3.6 kHz. If I do get some very strong signals, they can and will desense the rig and the waterfall display will weaken, sometime

Re: [digitalradio] Re: 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination Info

2007-03-07 Thread kv9u
Whether we like it or not, much of this was decided over a decade ago when the FCC ruled that if the station was using 500 Hz or narrower modes, it would be legal to operate with "semi" automatic operation. Fully automatic stations, such as the NTS/D which uses the Winlink system (not to be con