Re: [digitalradio] Chip 64 Technical Details

2007-04-24 Thread Arthur J. Lekstutis
There is a Yahoo group, though it's been quiet for almost a year now: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chip64 I believe this is Nino's web site, along with his contact information: http://xoomer.alice.it/aporcino/Chip64/index.htm Later, Artie KC2MFS >I'm looking for more technical details

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Why still the W1AW CW non-listening stuff on 3.580?

2007-02-18 Thread Arthur J. Lekstutis
I know of at least three local technician class hams (including myself) that are looking forward to learning CW *after* getting our general. Requiring Morse to get the general stopped us from even trying in the past. How can you learn without practice? Especially in today's hectic world. Furt

Re: [digitalradio] Re: HF signal propagation effects publications

2006-10-15 Thread Arthur J. Lekstutis
Hi, I decided to spring the $13 IEEE wanted for the article. It seems a bit much, but the 'Watterson Model' is referenced frequently and I should probably understand it. I also probably should have gone down to the local university library and copied the 12 pages there. For those that are inte

Re: [digitalradio] Technical descriptions of amateur radio data emissions

2006-06-24 Thread Arthur J. Lekstutis
>>The FCC regulation on technical descriptions, ยง 97.309(a)(4), reads: >> >>(4) An amateur station transmitting a RTTY or data emission using a >>digital code specified in this paragraph may use any technique whose >>technical characteristics have been documented publicly, such as >>

Re: [digitalradio] Linux for Windows addicts

2006-02-22 Thread Arthur J. Lekstutis
Are you referring to this? http://hamshack-hack.sourceforge.net/ Later, Artie Lekstutis KC2MFS >Please excuse the Linux rookie questions. I wonder if there is an >easy to manage CD bootable Linux program that one could download for a >CD burn? Sometime ago a member here (Harv, I think) wa

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-04 Thread Arthur J. Lekstutis
Hi, I've been an engineer for a long time, but I'm new to ham radio. Where exactly is this limitation defined by the FCC in the US? What document (and maybe section) defines the limitation of 300 baud regardless of the bandwidth? Also: are you saying that the FCC allows us to transmit multiple

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital voice on HF

2006-01-29 Thread Arthur J. Lekstutis
That depends entirely on the modulation method. At 8 bits per symbol, that could be as low as 375hz. Eight bits per symbol is very sensitive to noise though, and probably isn't interesting to this group. PSK31 sends one bit per Hz bandwidth and is much more robust on HF, and is probably a bette

Re: [digitalradio] Digital voice on HF

2006-01-28 Thread Arthur J. Lekstutis
There are voice encoding schemes that require much less. I've experimented with this codec (for example), and found it quite good even at 3k bits per second: http://www.hawksoft.com/hawkvoice/ It's not lossless mind you, but quite intelegible and almost natural sounding. Artie Lekstutis KC