Re: [digitalradio] Re: SCAMP?

2007-06-09 Thread Rick
I have wondered about this as well. The author said he thought he would eventually release it and, at the time, I had very little knowledge of the GPL. I am still not totally clear on this, but since SCAMP was only a beta test, and not a fully released product, perhaps that allows you to not re

Re: [digitalradio] Re: SCAMP?

2007-06-09 Thread Chris Danis
On 6/9/07, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have wondered about this as well. The author said he thought he would > eventually release it and, at the time, I had very little knowledge of > the GPL. I am still not totally clear on this, but since SCAMP was only > a beta test, and not a fully r

[digitalradio] Re: SCAMP?

2007-06-09 Thread cesco12342000
> Since RDFT was released under the GPL license, failure to release the > source code for SCAMP may be violation of the GPL license. The rdft routines are not integrated into scamp, they are "external exe's". Same trick is used by mixw, gpl-code is moved to an "external" library. While this see

Re: [digitalradio] Re: SCAMP?

2007-06-09 Thread Rick
Cesco, Most of us do appreciate the freeware authors. Even if not free as in beer. However, where you and I differ is that if they are doing something illegal, I would not support them and would rather they not produce the software in such a case. If what they are doing is legal, then very fe

[digitalradio] ALE beacon

2007-06-09 Thread John Bradley
Beaconing ALE, 21117.5MHZ starting 16.15UTC , Sat June 9th, RST reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED] John VE5MU

[digitalradio] Re: Most robust digi-mode with 200 to 600 bps ?

2007-06-09 Thread cesco12342000
> > Are any minimum SNR numbers of those 2 modes known (375/300 bps)? > The SNR for 8FSK can be about -5dB. > The SNR for 8PSK at 75baud is about -10dB. > Sorry, I don't remember the typical SNR for 300 or 600 baud 8PSK. I think we must start to specify "SNR at Bandwidth", otherwise the numbers d

[digitalradio] Signal Plotting Software

2007-06-09 Thread Tony
All: Still looking for sound card software that can plot / graph signal amplitude over long periods of time. Something with date, time stamp and automated screen capture would do nicely... Any suggestions? Tony KT2Q

[digitalradio] K1PGV MixW Callbook DLL has been updated

2007-06-09 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
The K1PGV MixW Callbook DLL has been updated with a few small, yet important, bug fixes. Latest update available at http://www.k1pgv.com (free, of course) Comments/questions/suggestions/issues/problems to me directly, please. de Peter K1PGV

[digitalradio] French language ALE paper - article en français sur le s ystème ALE

2007-06-09 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello to all, For the francophones of these Yahoo groups, here is a link for an interesting paper (in French) about ALE. The paper is from Chaudron Christian (F5LGF). Pour les francophones de ces groupes Yahoo, vous trouverez ci-dessous un lien sur un article intéressant relatif au système ALE.

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Most robust digi-mode with 200 to 600 bps ?

2007-06-09 Thread John Becker
Rick I belive you hit the hail on the head in part. I agree with you on Pactor 3 as I do use it even keyboard to keyboard. I will say it once again that I love the AQR modes (amtor & pactor) and still use both today. If I recall, the ARRL a number of years ago ask the ham programmers to step up an

Re: [digitalradio] Re: SCAMP?

2007-06-09 Thread Robert Thompson
If you want to know more about the GPL, here's the source: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/education > > My personal thougths: > > It is very impolite to push a freeware developer to release his source with > > legal threats. The developper will get angry and stop working (for free) > > for the ham-