Re: [digitalradio] Vista

2008-03-29 Thread Jose A. Amador
Paul L Schmidt, K9PS wrote: > > > Might want to check that one -- I think you'll find it's > derived from BSD, not Linux. > > 73, > > - ps > > Ken Meinken wrote: > > Actually, the Mac OS is based on Linux. Once I was told that XP also took adventage of some BSD code. Jose, CO2JA

Re: [digitalradio] RTTY question

2008-03-29 Thread Jose A. Amador
Mike Blazek wrote: > > > John Becker, WØJAB wrote: > > > > Why do I find so so many RTTY signals up side down > > on the ham bands. > > > > What ever happen to the old standard? > > > > Mark is hi space is low. > > > > John, W0JAB > > > > Hi, John: > > I think the main reason is prett

Re: [digitalradio] RFI-Free PCs? TEMPESTING

2008-03-27 Thread Theodore A. Antanaitis
Not exactly. I refer you to: http://www.nsa.gov/ia/industry/tempest.cfm in which you find the phrase "...Compromising Emanations..." . This does not necessarily imply any emanations although some do attack the problem by attempting to restrict all emanations. 73 Ted WA7ZZB - Original Message

Re: [digitalradio] 10 Tips for the PSK31 Digital Mode

2008-03-12 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rein Couperus wrote: > My comments were meant to be a bit provocative He! Well, you knew what you were doing > The ONLY point I wanted to make is that if you use a proper filter, > matched to the mode, you will have a lot more fun and hear/work many > more stations. The

Re: [digitalradio] Re: 10 Tips for the PSK31 Digital Mode

2008-03-12 Thread Jose A. Amador
kh6ty wrote: > A "dual-loop" AGC system may help and some high-end transceivers have this. > > 73, Skip KH6TY Dual loop AGC is a two sided sword. I have come to find better, and not necessarily easier, to have low noise, low gain stages before the filters that will not

Re: [digitalradio] 10 Tips for the PSK31 Digital Mode

2008-03-12 Thread Jose A. Amador
>> Enable your RF attenuation and increase the volume. This can help >> keep a strong signal from wiping out the weaker ones. The same that was recommended to work CW ages ago, using manual gain control and no AGC. >> Attenuation >> will probably be around 20 dB, b

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Keeping NBEMS in mind

2008-03-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
sequences of multipath, selective fading, only on rather wide signals, like pactor 3 or DRM. I have not noticed it so far in narrower signals, which doesn't mean it isn't there too. It shows up as a fast darker banding on the waterfall, that sweeps across the signal bandwidth. I have not

Re: [digitalradio] Some thoughts on antenna polarization for emergency use

2008-02-29 Thread Theodore A. Antanaitis
Hi Skip, Appreciate your comments. The Lindenblad is indeed a favorite omni-directional antenna for satellite enthusiasts since it maintains nearly circular polarization for all azimuth and elevation angles of wave arrival. It does, however, favor lower elevation angles for gain. The

Re: [digitalradio] Some thoughts on antenna polarization for emergency use

2008-02-29 Thread Theodore A. Antanaitis
How about the best of both worlds (or at least an approximation thereof). I would suggest for two meter home station applications that a lindenblad antenna is a versatile compromise omni-directional antenna that works equally well with both vertical and horizontal polarizations. The complexity

Re: [digitalradio] Re: RTTY Standard

2008-02-12 Thread Jose A. Amador
; 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN Precisely, the KPC-2 used as dumb modem with an RTTY or pactor terminal. I made it run with Terman93. Sometimes it did well, sometimes, not so well...I added a tuning aid with two LEDs. Actually, the KPC-2 was intended only for packet

Re: [digitalradio] Re: RTTY Standard

2008-02-12 Thread Jose A. Amador
Jose A. Amador wrote: > Kantronics and AEA too. > > I have a Communications Quarterly issue from the mid 90's somewhere here > in which the author modifies A PK-232...forgot to include that > its filters for 170 Hz and describes a > great improvement for AMTOR...

Re: [digitalradio] Re: RTTY Standard

2008-02-12 Thread Jose A. Amador
Kantronics and AEA too. I have a Communications Quarterly issue from the mid 90's somewhere here in which the author modifies its filters for 170 Hz and describes a great improvement for AMTOR...but also becomes almost useless for 300 baud packet. AM7910 modems have 200 Hz shift.

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Operating FSK RTTY in a contest ?

2008-02-11 Thread Jose A. Amador
Andy, I use only AFSK lately. I find it easier to net, just click on the waterfall and there you go. One asset of soundcard generated keying is that usually the tones are a bit "softer", due to the use of phase continuous keying, which may not be the case with IF generated FSK

Re: [digitalradio] Olivia

2008-02-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
It should be better, because of the Walsh code layer. I have used it for tests among other Olivia modes, but never compared RTTY and 2/250 Olivia. It worked fairly well, but it was just for curiosity sake, more than anything else. It was not a serious, well planned, exhaustive test. 73

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Narrow SSTV contact

2008-02-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
Jon Maguire wrote: > Rick, > > Patrick sent me this... wanna play? :-) >> "There is a Word document which goal is to show from two Multipsk >> snapshots how to do the basic operations in SSTV in MFSK16. This >> document (0.5 Mo) is available from my sit

Re: [digitalradio] Sigma Tel audio level

2008-02-05 Thread Jose A. Amador
Dave, Getting only 40 watts out means you still need an audio level 4 dB higher. Going the easy way, can't you tweak some attenuator in your interface? 73, Jose, CO2JA Dave 'Doc' Corio wrote: > I recently discovered that my Soundblaster Audigy card was causing > some problems to my sof

Re: [digitalradio] Re: New release (4.7) of MULTIPSK

2008-01-31 Thread Jose A. Amador
Tooner wrote: > --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Jose A. Amador" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> ... but what it does and how it does. >> ... And certainly MultiPSK does its stuff WELL >> ... as a peek at its specs will show you. > > How

Re: [digitalradio] Re: New release (4.7) of MULTIPSK

2008-01-30 Thread Jose A. Amador
Tooner wrote: > MultiPSK gives an error in Vista 64-bit: > > "Windows - No Disk > Exception Processing Message 0xc013 Parameters > ... > Cancel, Try Again, Continue" > > Selecting either will still pull up the program. Seems to work fine. > > N

Re: [digitalradio] Setting up FDMDV

2008-01-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
Similar hardware here, set up in a different fashion. Onboard AC97 for mic input and TX output Creative Audigy 2 for RX input and speaker out. Needs a trick to mute the input RX audio using the effects menu. You must mute the line input to the soundcard mix, or you will get the received

[digitalradio] FDMDV this afternoon...

2008-01-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
Copied XE1RK very well, SNR between 9 and 12 dB, no interruptions at all. He was in QSO with some W0 I did not hear AT ALL. 73, Jose, CO2JA __ Participe en Universidad 2008. 11 al 15 de febrero del 2008. Palacio de las Convenciones, Ciudad de la Habana,

Re: [digitalradio] HAARP and Moon Echo of HAARP received well in South Bend, Indiana 6.7925

2008-01-19 Thread Jose A. Amador
Reviewing what I received here, and comparing with what others have posted, here and in other groups, I had a pretty good documented reception almost at the end. I have a particularly clean and strong echo at 05:58:10, a direct signal with no multipath. HAARP signals at that moment had a

Re: [digitalradio] Re: I, am a Pactor Robot............

2008-01-18 Thread Jose A. Amador
Fortunately, the effects of QRM on the radio have been so far less damaging than the new form of taliban torpedo you mention. Should motor vehicles be banned until that shortcoming is solved? 73, Jose, CO2JA --- Dave AA6YQ wrote: > I'm going to start driving my car around at 150 mph. When s

[digitalradio] QRM wars.

2008-01-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
OK, Bill, I had heard it before, and refrained to comment, but this time I suffered it myself. I decided to change the subject to something more appropiate to what I am referring to. I have been thinking a bit about all thisI am tempted to try to monitor using Multipsk with the soundcard

Re: [digitalradio] Re: (was : Trouble at mill RTTY contesters war

2008-01-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
7102.2, center frequency. Certainly, a busy frequency. I cannot tell what "mode" called on top of me, because, robotic or manned, all pactor link initiations are about the same. Only after you receive a system ID or a human greeting you get to know. But I guess, given the frequenc

Re: [digitalradio] Robust Packet-Radio (RPR)

2008-01-12 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rick, I believe they address one of the largest shortcomings of packet: its modem. As I understand (I might be mistaken, I have not upgraded my PTC) it is the same AX.25 protocol with a more robust modulation. In fact, a different modulation with robust encoding. 73, Jose, CO2JA -- Rick

Re: [digitalradio] Software for the digital ham that multi-tasks while sleeping ?

2008-01-11 Thread Jose A. Amador
arguments. Years ago (some 8+ years ago), I used the FBB cron to switch bands with an automatic antenna tuner / switch, that even allowed remote QSY of the BBS with a simple CAT program I wrote for the FT-757. I am crossposting this reply to both linuxham* lists and the WSJT Group, because that even

[digitalradio] Mode identification

2008-01-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
Yes, but the RS ID signal has to be transmitted. I believe that Jack refers to some thing like a function PK-232's had to analyze and identify the mode. Something could be done using MultiPSK Analysis function. But for an example, today I attempted to decode a signal tha APPARENTLY was P

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Standard sideband for digi modes?

2008-01-05 Thread Jose A. Amador
MultiPSK also has a reverse button for QPSK modes. Jose, CO2JA Demetre SV1UY wrote: > --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Demetre SV1UY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > [snip] >> And don't forget that really it does not matter if you use USB or LSB >

Re: [digitalradio] Questions on digital opposition

2008-01-05 Thread Jose A. Amador
ect. It is actually better to have a variety of solutions available, and being capable of selecting the most appropiate or convenient in each scenario. It is just not safe or fair to extrapolate that my best solution is everybody's else best solution. It is something that we should be

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Is PACTOR I Actually DEAD For KBD - KBD?

2008-01-05 Thread Jose A. Amador
aper way, the old way became less and less popular (or fashionable, as you may like). I had a clash with a younger local ham in a contest team asking "what the I was using that I did not copy anybody quick enough". He was using MixW and I was using my PTC-II in PSK31. I told him

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Licensing of Pactor modes

2008-01-05 Thread Jose A. Amador
Demetre SV1UY wrote: > Hi Jose, > > Happy New Year to you and your family. Happy New Year to you and yours, too (also, to the readers of this list). > As for the early KAMs you are right, but after a while they brought > out new firmware and they fixed the problem. I have an

Re: [digitalradio] HF BBS systems

2008-01-05 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rick wrote: > The BBS concept (without the internet) was THE system in place for well > over a decade. We initially had worldwide packet HF BBS systems, however > they were less effective after the sunspots declined and the higher > bands became unusable. Packet does not work we

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Licensing of Pactor modes

2008-01-04 Thread Jose A. Amador
e SCS Z-80 Pactor Controller. PacComm sold a Pactor controller, but they had marginal profits in general, as they did not offsource the production of their units, as AEA did. Jose, CO2JA --- Demetre SV1UY wrote: > --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Roger J. Buffington" &

Re: [digitalradio] Questions on digital opposition

2007-12-28 Thread Jose A. Amador
anywhere in the Third World to find it the same case... Towers may fall...fibers may break (it happened recently in the US west coast), etc, etc. We have had that scenario here in my country several times this decade. In the middle of a category 5 hurricane, only HF works...who is going to k

Re: [digitalradio] off topic but a very cool looking photo

2007-11-28 Thread Jose A. Amador
t; No wonder I'm getting S-9 QRM in my QTH hi hi > > 73 > Patrick > VK2PN > > John Becker, WØJAB wrote: >> >> This is a photo of 1000 6ft light tubes powered only by the >> stray static energy from the

[digitalradio] Re: RTTY contester's survey

2007-11-17 Thread Brian A
. Likewise other digital modes can and do move to the area between 14080-14090 and operate there. I think you do see RTTY stations, even in contests, not mobbing the frequencies normally used by PSK stations-- at least on 20M. 40M is a whole other story for many reasons. 73 de Brian/K3KO

[digitalradio] RTTY contester's survey

2007-11-17 Thread Brian A
Look at: http://rttycontesting.com/2007survey/2007octsurveyresults.html It reflects the comments of over 500 RTTY contesters. One major conclusion: More RTTY contests wanted. This is despite the fact that there are at least 32 now. So if you think RTTY contests are going to disappear, think ag

[digitalradio] Re: A challenge to RTTY operators!

2007-11-17 Thread Brian A
Robert, Thanks for pointing this out. The link is for 1999. Regarding WF1F/RITTY. The 1998 manual I have for WF1B (a DOS program) shows support for RITTY as a DOS TSR. Earlier manuals don't show it. I recall trying to get a sound card going in DOS. It was a real bear-- at least fo

Re: [digitalradio] Re: A challenge to RTTY operators!

2007-11-16 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rick wrote: > I have to concur with Jose on this. I was a very active HF and VHF > digital ham starting around 1981 with a homebrew XR2206/XR2211 TU that > was from QST magazine and called "The State of the Art TU." It most > assuredly was not, but being naive and new to

[digitalradio] Re: A challenge to RTTY operators!

2007-11-16 Thread Brian A
Rick, I used a CP-1 TU up to the day the WF1B RTTY contest program became unsupported. WF1B supported quite a few TU types but no sound cards. That was around 1996 or 7. Here's a tidbit of info. Score required to win 1997 USA CQ WW RTTY single op assisted in 1997 = 553k points. I still

Re: [digitalradio] Re: A challenge to RTTY operators!

2007-11-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
Allow me to disagree (slightly) on the beginnings of RTTY popularity. I would "blame" Baycom, and the old Mix DOS versions. I used them (as well as quite few hams I know) way before PSK31 and the sound card modes appeared. Actually, after using them, I built a hardware modem that

[digitalradio] Re: A challenge to RTTY operators!

2007-11-15 Thread Brian A
Andy, Maybe it is a chicken and the egg thing. To have activity, you have to have activity. I don't think it has anything to do with the digital mode. The advance that made RTTY so popular was the advent of sound card RTTY. I can attest to that since I operated RTTY contests befor

Re: [digitalradio] NIC issue

2007-11-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
g with Linux Mandrake 9.1 ? It is a > PCI card (before it I used an ISA card that worked fine, but I moved it > to another comp). > > Misko YT7MPB __ Participe en Universidad 2008. 11 al 15 de febrero del 2008. Palacio de las Convenciones, C

[digitalradio] Re: RF feedback with interface

2007-11-08 Thread Brian A
Rick, Your no ground situation + high power is a recipe for RF problems. Try some 1/4 wave counterpoises connected to the rig ground. You can have multiple ones for different bands connected simultaneously. People who live on second and third floors have the same problem with long ground paths

[digitalradio] Re: RF feedback with interface

2007-11-08 Thread Brian A
Rick, Welcome to the world of QRO. You didn't mention your antenna system or band. Common problems guys have: 1) open wire line with goofy unbalanced antenna attached. 2) poor grounding of the rig. (A fat short ground connecting amp and rig needed.) Corroded connections at the ground

[digitalradio] Re: ALE400 - Narrow band ALE mode now available

2007-11-05 Thread Brian A
ve no "off AGC" position. The only other choice becomes reducing the RF gain. That eliminates the weak one you're trying to hear. A narrower filter can mitigate the AGC problem as well as improving the S/N ratio. The sound card digital filtering comes after all these stages in

[digitalradio] Re: ALE400 - Narrow band ALE mode now available

2007-11-03 Thread Brian A
Patrick, I applaud all the experimenters out there trying to push the envelope. Meeting personal goals is a really healthy part of the hobby. It doesn't really matter if that goal become an integral part of ham radio or not. Experimention for its own sake is good. Also, thanks for the

[digitalradio] Re: ALE400 – Narrow band ALE mode now available

2007-11-02 Thread Brian A
I'm not trying to be a pain in the butt, honest. If one put ALE400 and RTTY side by side for the average ham ALE-400 would be a hard sell. Same speed in twice the bandwidth. I guess one may conclude all the bells and whistles of ALE, ARQ etc are doubling the bandwidth requirements. On

[digitalradio] Re: ALE400 – Narrow band ALE mode now available

2007-11-02 Thread Brian A
So one gets the 60wpm of 170Hz shift RTTY for a 400 Hz bandwidth? 73 de Brian/K3KO --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Mark Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ALE400 – Narrow band ALE mode now available > > Patrick F6CTE has announced that a narrow band version of the

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Sub Channel DQPSK

2007-10-29 Thread Jose A. Amador
Well, I do not have a distinct characterization of Olivia submodes. 8/500 seems to be fair enough, not too greedy on bandwidth and works where other modes (not Olivia) fail. I have used the most common available on MultiPSK, that is, 8/250, 8/500, and 16/500. Ocassionally, 32/1000, or even 2

Re: [digitalradio] Re: QEX Article on HF Digital Propagation

2007-10-27 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rud Merriam wrote: > Jose, > > Just as you were posting this message I was stumbling on a web site that > agreed with your comment. > > With further searching I think I have the relationship. The QEX article has > the statement that to go from the 3kHz bandwidth used you

Re: [digitalradio] Sub Channel DQPSK

2007-10-27 Thread Jose A. Amador
Of course it is. PSK31 goes raw, while MFSK and Olivia have FEC added. So, stand a better chance of being decoded correctly. When nature starts stirring the gas above, all it reflects (refracts) suffers the same effect as it had passed thru the house of mirrors, making giants look like dwarfs

Re: [digitalradio] Sub Channel DQPSK

2007-10-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rud, You can see the variations in the ionosphere as a phase modulator embedded in the channel. So, it will phase modulate whatever you attempt to get thru it. Actually, it has a phase modulator embedded for each arriving path. With differential encoding, and signalling speed higher than the

Re: [digitalradio] Re: QEX Article on HF Digital Propagation

2007-10-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
hannon Limit? That's right... > Then you need to take the value of the baud rate and bandwidth of the > signal into consideration and that ratio is multiplied against the > Eb/No. Wouldn't that further raise the required S/N ratio? Actually, those "negative SNR's"

Re: [digitalradio] Re: QEX Article on HF Digital Propagation

2007-10-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
h > frequency >> tracking algorithms. > > PSK31 bandwidth is much lower than of PSK100 that Pactor 2/3 utilizes. > PSK100 will lock to a signal 100/31 times far mistuned than PSK31. > > Symbol length of PSK31 is 32msec, symbol length of PSK100 is 10msec. I > would say tha

[digitalradio] Re: Modes the work with SSB splatter

2007-10-22 Thread Brian A
I want to point out that 7070 and the surrounds are part of the "phone " band in Europe and elsewhere(e.g. Canada). It has been that way long before any of these digital modes existed. It isn't just contests. It is a very popular spot day in and day out. The BC stations in EU fr

[digitalradio] Re: QSO or QRM? ...or Contest?

2007-10-22 Thread Brian A
Luc, Guess what? Contesters work during the week too. Many have weekends only for radio. So you get them engaged in their favorite activity on weekends. Why is this hard to understand? They don't complain about the QRM but rather accept it as a challenge to overcome. I suspect this is

Re: [digitalradio] Modes the work with SSB splatter

2007-10-22 Thread Jose A. Amador
uency was already in use in PSK, MFSK or Olivia. I am afraid that something does not fit...and not only with "robots". A theory, in practice, may prove to be more complicated than the same theory, in theory. 73, Jose, CO2JA PS: Don't try to convince me of what is allowed and

[digitalradio] Attempting to end the never ending tale.

2007-10-19 Thread Jose A. Amador
Dave AA6YQ wrote: > +++ AA6YQ comments below > +++ I do not know the date at which 97.101 was originally instituted or last > modified. Part 97 is available online via Thanks for the links. > +++ That's not true, Jose. If an unattended station contains a busy > frequency d

[digitalradio] Re: Let me understand

2007-10-19 Thread Brian A
Alan, Your post just shows how people are missing the point. Just who is going to be able to copy D*? I wouldn't bet my life on D* communications. Would you? Too few people able to copy it. I might change my mind in 10 years but for now it's a fringe mode. One needs

[digitalradio] Let me understand

2007-10-18 Thread Brian A
The digital systems being proposed for emergency use require a rig with antenna, a computer with soundcard and functional software. Also an operator trained with the protocol in use. Right? My perception of emergency situations is that just having a rig/antenna available and working may be no

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Need to Expand the HF Auto Band Segments

2007-10-18 Thread Jose A. Amador
(1.09 ???) and JNOS (1.10 ???) followed later. > > Not really Jose, There was a young developer in the St. Louis, Missouri > area who had a WB9 call that was playing with it back then. I just cant > remember his call but I'm sure Pete, WB9FLW would. > > Then say the mem

Re: [digitalradio] Need to Expand the HF Auto Band Segments

2007-10-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
You are pretty persistent, sir Dave AA6YQ wrote: >> >>AA6YQ comments below > > *From:* digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Jose A. Amador > >> >>snip<<< > > Rating automatic operations as extremely un

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Need to Expand the HF Auto Band Segments

2007-10-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
ket. It's about as slow and wide as > well as out dated as it can get.. I used Pactor as "layer 1" of FBB (actually it was a far more profound change) and it brought a 10:1 increase in thruput compared to AX.25 and Bell 103 tones with no FEC and no memory ARQ or maximum likelyhood

Re: [digitalradio] Net: 10m Operation

2007-10-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
I had quite good results with 1200 baud on 10 meters. It was a long time ago, but it was comparable to 2 meters at times. Jose, CO2JA -- Rud Merriam wrote: > Assume an RF mesh network operating on 10m. > > Is there an advantage in the ability to use 1200 baud? Or is multipath >

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Need to Expand the HF Auto Band Segments

2007-10-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
As Jean Paul Roubelat explains in the FBB docs, the design of FBB B1 compression had to comply with a requisite from the french authorities, by which message headers must be sent in clear text. But compression gives a measure of efficiency and allow to double the traffic or reduce the channel

Re: [digitalradio] Pactor and Seasonally Affected Disorder (SAD)

2007-10-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
October 17, 2007 8:41 PM > *To:* digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > *Subject:* [digitalradio] Pactor and Seasonally Affected Disorder (SAD) > > > > New Discovery from the Bolivian Journal of Medicine > > Physicians in Bolivia have recently released a paper on the destructive >

Re: [digitalradio] Need new emergency communications mode: Project Management

2007-10-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rud, Running Linux in an old box requires an old version of Linux, matched to the box contents. I used RedHat 5.2 on a 486, and 6.2 on a P1. Mostly, text mode, with a CGA or the older and less voracious GUI, with 1 MB RAM video cards. The BBS's ran happy with it, and I even did ftp and

Re: [digitalradio] Need to Expand the HF Auto Band Segments

2007-10-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
Even when flame bait abounds here, let's try to keep the temper. I see both claims a bit high. Ten percent of an amateur band may look high, but just one 3 kHz channel as now exists on 40 meters is too little. I see the claim more as a bargaining start, and some harmonizing work by IAR

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Imitating the big guys

2007-10-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
accept the hidden transmitter issue, > which is preposterous! I have seen Dave's comments many times and a > major concern that he and others have is that there is the hidden > transmitter effect. What is going on here, Jose? I think at the very > least an apology is in order for

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Imitating the big guys

2007-10-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
Beware ! Do you see how you act? Nowhere in my text it says it is useless, it just says it is unavailable. Isn't it ? Those are very different words. Dave Bernstein wrote: AA6YQ comments bloew > > --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Jose Amador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> You've

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Imitating the big guys

2007-10-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
Dave Bernstein wrote: > *** more AA6YQ comments > *** Then why did you bring up the point that PMBOs can detect ongoing > QSOs in Pactor? If you weren't suggesting this as a solution, then > what was your intention? I was merely describing a fact, not suggesting anything a

Re: [digitalradio] The top five reasons why PMBO QRM is your fault

2007-10-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
Dave Bernstein wrote: > 1. You're using panoramic reception and consider signals anywhere on > your waterfall to be QRM With a bit of self education people can get to identify what is on the waterfall. > 2. You're operating in a mode other than Pactor Yes, I do also. &g

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Imitating the big guys

2007-10-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
Dave Bernstein wrote: > ### more AA6YQ comments below > > --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Jose A. Amador" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > +++That's an unreasonable requirement, Jose, especially given that > PMBOs use a protocol that can't be

Re: [digitalradio] Busy Detection

2007-10-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
Howard Brown wrote: > Jose and Demetre, > > Let's say the two of you were having a nice Pactor QSO on 14.091.00 > kHz. Now let's say that N4XX (made up callsign) calls me on the same > frequency using RTTY because he can't hear you. OK on the made up callsign.

Re: [digitalradio] Only using wide digital modes

2007-10-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
The fact is that SCS modems REDUCE the power to what is just needed to keep the link. If QRM shows up, the modem will just attempt to maintain the needed SNR. And it is not done ONLY in the PMBO but also on the user end. I have seen powers as low as 5 watts with a 100 watts radio. Jose, CO2JA

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Imitating the big guys

2007-10-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
Dave Bernstein wrote: > +++more AA6YQ comments below > > --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Jose A. Amador" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>>> Yes, hidden stations are absolutely a fact of life on HF. Why >>>> then would anyone de

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Imitating the big guys

2007-10-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
Dave Bernstein wrote: >>>> AA6YQ comments below > > --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Jose A. Amador" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> snip< > > There are physical mechanisms in radio propagation that creates > hidden stations

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Imitating the big guys

2007-10-13 Thread Jose A. Amador
I had already grown tired of all of this before. But there is no right to rest yet if somebody wants to trick us into silence out of endlessly attempting to impose a senseless idea by making people grow tired of confronting such an absurdity once and again. There is no worse kind of blindness

[digitalradio] Re: Is HF emergency communication really viable?

2007-10-02 Thread Brian A
r the circumstances. This really requires depth in the number available modes and frequencies. Pinning all your communications hopes on one mode is a recipe for failure. Things never go as planned. The strength in emergency communications will always come from skilled operators. 73 de Brian/K3KO -

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Tests in ARQ FAE

2007-10-01 Thread Matthew A. Chambers
Tests in ARQ FAE I just got off the air on 30 meters with N5UNB a few seconds ago. He had called CQ on Olivia 16-500 and we had a nice QSO. About half way through it I noticed some ALE 141A centered across our live QSO. It may be that they could not hear the TX station, but I am sure they could

[digitalradio] Re: Tests in ARQ FAE

2007-10-01 Thread Brian A
wrote: > > > > --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > > <mailto:digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com>, "Brian A" > > wrote: > > > > Correct me if I'm wrong. However, reading all these posts suggests > > > that what these "wonder modes" want and or

Re: [digitalradio] JT65A..first contact

2007-09-30 Thread Jose A. Amador
David, I do not have full Internet at home, just e-mail. I have been using CHU with the CLOCK program from F6CTE, for Windows. I am running XP now, but this is a dual boot PC. That's the reason I am interested in using the radio to sync my PC, which is necessary to use WSJT or

Re: [digitalradio] ALE yes ... or no?

2007-09-30 Thread Jose A. Amador
Robert Thompson wrote: > You probably mean "Linux kernel-mode" AX.25, since JNOS runs fine on > Linux =) Yes, I meant EXACTLY that. Kernel AX.25 can be fooled to endless repeats by TFPCX and an inadequate computer (say, a 286 running some terminal ughh !!) That has been a

Re: [digitalradio] JT65A..first contact

2007-09-30 Thread Jose A. Amador
I guess you are using ntp via modem. I am interested in finding a way to sync Linux to CHU, WWV or WWVB using a soundcard and the radio time codes. Does anyone on the list has already done that? How? 73, Jose, CO2JA --- David Munn wrote: > for clock accuracy im using the ntp server

[digitalradio] Re: Tests in ARQ FAE

2007-09-30 Thread Brian A
Just for curiosity. I wonder if the digital experts out there would care to speculate how all these new "wonder modes" would perform in the din of this contest? Would ALE work at all? Would these modes be able to exchange the contents of 2000 contacts as the bigger RTTY stations do in

[digitalradio] Re: jt65a is an automatic mode

2007-09-27 Thread Brian A
d for really weak VHF sigs. 6 or 7 minutes to make a single QSO is excessive on HF. Reducing the periods to 30 seconds would make QSO length more reasonable and reduce QRM chances. 73 de Brian/K3KO --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Roger J. Buffington" <[EMAIL

Re: [digitalradio] Re: jt65a is an automatic mode

2007-09-27 Thread Jose A. Amador
Not at all. It is a mode where humans must decide if a QSO is valid. EME ops are certainly picky about this. It is meant for EME, it was not created as "another automatic box". Of course, it has proven useful for extreme HF DX as well, which is not as extreme as EME may prove to be

Re: [digitalradio] ALE yes ... or no?

2007-09-27 Thread Jose A. Amador
In my personal experience, JNOS first, and Linux in second place, have been a fairly good match to the radio channel characteristics for e-mail and web browsing over AX.25 packet radio. How is that? Well, JNOS has "tweaked timers", or better stated, the ability of setting chan

Re: [digitalradio] re: ARQ FAE

2007-09-20 Thread Jose A. Amador
I used TERMAN93 with a homebrew FSK modem and my PC in 1997 was a 386 at 25 MHz with 20 MB RAM. I had to tweak the too simple dot clock oscillator to shift it from 14.312 MHz to the correct frequency of 14.318181MHz. I never knew about G4BMK Multi. But My PTC-II does that and more, too

Re: [digitalradio] Busy Detectors

2007-09-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
In an animals meeting someone stated that the culprit was a "big mouth animal" ...and then the frog and the alligator began blaming each other... . . . . John Becker, WØJAB wrote: > Not sure what mode "the mode" is but should it not be for > all modes? > > Cas

Re: [digitalradio] Re: So there I was -

2007-09-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
Roger J. Buffington wrote: > Demetre SV1UY wrote: > >> First off PACTOR 3 supports DCD control so it can listen before it >> transmits. Now maybe the Winlink people have a good reason to have >> their automatic MBOS not support the DCD control, but the human &g

Re: [digitalradio] Re: So there I was -

2007-09-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
, is the new ALE FAE mode. Currently, it is a non-standard form of ALE > and only available on Multipsk. But after you make the connection, you > don't have to switch back and forth. I did not have good luck with the > mode working with a nearby station that I do tests with on HF.

Re: [digitalradio] Re: So there I was -

2007-09-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
Hi all, I would like to add my two cents. >Demetre SV1UY wrote: > Well it all depends on what is an amateur mode. Is it a mode which is > free of charge? I wish I also had a free of charge radio and computer, > but this is not possible unfortunatelly. Something that is NEVER ar

[digitalradio] Re: Best digital modes for portable QRP

2007-09-15 Thread Brian A
CW. No computer needed. Also when you're operating QRP you need a large number of potential stations to work. I really pitty the portable QRP station with a budipole antenna trying to work the small handfull of stations he might hear on an oddball digital mode. You might just as well leav

Re: [digitalradio] Re: The decline of Olivia and DominoEX

2007-09-11 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rick wrote: > Hi Jose, > > Do you see any difference between the convolutional code of Pactor and > the Viterbi code in MFSK16 or Patrick's use of Viterbi code in his F > versions of PSK and his FEC of DEX? I have not studied those in detail. And I know about Viterbi DE

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail save session to CD?

2007-09-11 Thread Jose A. Amador
Andrew O'Brien wrote: > but when burning an ISO image, I am not given this option. Seems it is OK, I did realize it quickly enough. An ISO is an already closed bundle. So, it would take some extra work to open the ISO in a hard drive and burn the components as separate files. Th

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail save session to CD?

2007-09-11 Thread Jose A. Amador
A disk that accepts more data. In Nero terms, you can leave a CD "closed" (will not accept further data) or "open". Usually, music CD's are closed. Open disks are mainly used for data, as music readers will get confused with such a disk. Jose, CO2JA -= Andrew O

Re: [digitalradio] Re: The decline of Olivia and DominoEX

2007-09-11 Thread Jose A. Amador
come next, instead of what a blind demodulator does. Interleaving is vital for HF data chennels. What else could be better? Turbo codes or low density parity codes could be added, to get even closer to the Shannon limit. But it does not mean that it will accept a narrowband channel. Latency will ob

[digitalradio] Introduction

2007-09-06 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Good Morning Everyone: My name is Tim Holmes, W8TAH, Amateur Extra Class operator -- I have been messing around with digital as long as ive been on HF and i really enjoy it -- finding a group to play with is cool. I do psk, rtty, sstv, and im always willing to learn new or different things

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