Re: [digitalradio] City attempts to shut down ham radio .... !!

2009-07-11 Thread Skip Taylor
I can't find that link. I know there was to be an amassing of local hams at their meeting last night. The city council was apparently intending to 'brute force' this onto their agenda and bury it. I've not heard anything from anyone locally yet. I'll pass it along as soon as I can. Their

Re: [digitalradio] Sound Cards

2009-06-19 Thread Skip Taylor
Just wanted to say hello to another Skip. Mine is a nickname from birth, how about you? Private email is ok from here out if you wish. I started reading this thread because it had my name in it. (grin) There's also a USB sound adapter at http://tr.im/p5Nl Looks very similar to the one the other

[digitalradio] Re: Here's some frequencies for unattended HF operations

2007-09-23 Thread Skip Teller
-3.600 MHz segments. 73, Skip KH6TY

[digitalradio] Re: Windows 98 doesn't decode psk31

2007-07-24 Thread Skip
Roger, If you are using DigiPan... Quit DigiPan, delete digipan.ini in \Windows, restart DigiPan, fill in your Personal Data, and see if it decodes. Be sure you have bpsk31 selected and not fsk31 or qpsk31 Set the squelch threshold to the bottom 73, Skip KH6TY DigiPan

[digitalradio] Re: Comments to ARRL on New Digi Protocols

2007-06-03 Thread Skip Teller
the disaster zone when nobody else can. 73, Skip KH6TY

Re: [digitalradio] Digest Number 3496

2007-06-03 Thread Skip Teller
antenna is a disadvantage in reducing multipath (attenuating signals from the side), but has the advantage of wider angle coverage so usually rotation is not needed. 73, Skip KH6TY

[digitalradio] Re: Comments to ARRL on New Digi Protocols

2007-06-02 Thread Skip KH6TY
from the horizontally-polarized skeketon-slot antenna of the early 50's, and is usable for SSB because it is horizontally polarized, which is the convention for CW and SSB weak signal activity on 2m. Even a simple dipole can work long distances during E-skip or tropo conditions, but our task

[digitalradio] Re: Comments to ARRL on New Digi Protocols

2007-06-01 Thread Skip KH6TY
PROTECTED] kv9u Date: Thu May 31, 2007 7:14 am ((PDT)) Skip, Sounds really interesting. Isn't much of this is available right now with Linux, on PSKmail? However it is not available on MS Windows OS which is what 95+% of hams use worldwide for now. It would seem that adoption will be low until

[digitalradio] Re: Comments to ARRL on New Digi Protocols

2007-05-30 Thread Skip KH6TY
Has anyone seen any comments from other hams or organizations yet? Bonnie KQ6XA Yes, I immediately received comments from two officials at ARRL! Paul Rinaldo's was: To: Skip Teller ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Howard Teller ; Dennis Bodson Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 8:02 AM Subject: Re: New HF

Re: [digitalradio] Digest Number 3456

2007-04-29 Thread Skip Teller
, Skip KH6TY 8a. Wideband on 6 Posted by: bruce mallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wa4gch Date: Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:53 pm ((PDT)) My dream was / is an ADV 100 kHz channel up around 53 MHz where we could have ADV QSOs over 50 -100 miles without investing a fortune in antennas

[digitalradio] Sorry, I forgot to delete the messages...

2007-03-08 Thread Skip Teller
My apologies for forgetting to delete the quoted messages... 73, Skip KH6TY

[digitalradio] Re: narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-08 Thread Skip Teller
design. I have read that a dual-loop AGC system helps prevent AGC capture, but I have not tried it. The reason that some people have no problem with AGC capture and others do is that the receivers and antenna gains are not the same for everyone, so everyone is right! ;-) 73, Skip KH6TY

[digitalradio] Net frequency

2007-02-24 Thread Skip
, unless someone is accidentally operating below 144.260 with his suppressed carrier, and since we are at 144.258 MHz, a moderate degree of mistuning by either of us is not going to interfere with the other. Skip KH6TY

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

2007-02-20 Thread Skip
to train Naturally Speaking and IBM Viavoice how to translate my own voice, but everyone who has tried knows that speech to text is OK for letters that can be edited afterwards, but not for use in real time. 73, Skip KH6TY

[digitalradio] Re: An observation on Olivia

2007-02-04 Thread Skip
Skip, Is this done with all-mode rigs are is it audio over FM? Leigh/WA5ZNU On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 12:38 pm, Skip wrote: Here in South Carolina, we are running a PSK63 net on 2-meters, Leigh, We are all using multimode rigs such as the IC-746, IC-706MKII, FT897, etc, using SSB and modulating

[digitalradio] Re: Random thoughts on digital operating...

2007-01-09 Thread Skip Teller
power on digital modes, but most of them can only run half rated power at best, for both duty cycle and linearity reasons, so increasing power a lot is not always an option to improve copy on the other end. 73, Skip KH6TY

[digitalradio] Re: New 80m USA Keyboarding Digi Frequencies

2006-12-11 Thread Skip Teller
. This leaves the rest of the band for non-multimedia communications, which is as it should be with the limited amount of spectrum available on HF. 73, Skip KH6TY

[digitalradio] Re: New 80m USA Keyboarding Digi Frequencies

2006-12-07 Thread Skip Teller
Skip KH6TY wrote: If someone is going to propose a bandplan then it might be a good idea to first educate oneself as to the current usage and limitations, since that IS important! Hopefully you will research the situation, educate yourself, and get back to us at some point

[digitalradio] Re: Mono mic input?

2006-05-30 Thread Skip Teller
Using a mono plug on the Mic input of the soundcard is no problem. Using a mono plug on the soundcard speaker output shorts the two channels and can burn out the audio amp. Been there - done that! 73, Skip KH6TY - Original Message - From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com

[digitalradio] Re: digipan

2005-07-09 Thread Skip Teller
from the receiver too low. Another possibility is a corrupted digipan.ini file. Quite Digipan, delete digipan.ini in \Windows and restart DigiPan and see if that helps. Skip KH6TY I don't know what I did to change this. But my water fall on my digipan is just blue. with now yellow steaks

[digitalradio] RE: Winlink Scanning

2005-04-23 Thread Skip Teller
Message: 5 Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:54:21 -0500 From: Rick Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: RE: Winlink Scanning Some specific replies to Skip: Skip: I don't think the radio amateur community as a whole agrees to sacrifice unreasonable for the operating convenience

[digitalradio] RE: Winlink Scanning

2005-04-22 Thread Skip Teller
access for FOUR TIMES the spectrum that Winlink would be entitled to, so why does Winlink push to access to the majority of the radio amateur spectrum at the expense of 99% of the radio amateurs? Is there something wrong with this picture? \From: Rick Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Skip

[digitalradio] RE: Winlink Scanning

2005-04-21 Thread Skip Teller
the Winlink traffic handling capacity the same, frees up space for others to use, and eliminates the QRM to others by PMBO stations. The time-from-request-to-connection would not be noticeably different, if there is any at all. 73, Skip KH6TY The K3UK DIGITAL MODES SPOTTING CLUSTER AT telnet

[digitalradio] RE: Winlink Scanning

2005-04-20 Thread Skip Teller
listen, don't they, so there is no significant advantage! ;-) 73, Skip KH6TY The K3UK DIGITAL MODES SPOTTING CLUSTER AT telnet://208.15.25.196/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send

[digitalradio] RE: Winlink Scanning

2005-04-19 Thread Skip Teller
, and scanning on each band. So, it is possible that K4CJX is SIMULTANEOUSLY transmitting on *three* frequencies. Is this legal, or does it require a club license, since K4CJX is using his callsign for all the simultaneous transmissions? 73, Skip KH6TY Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:27:35 -0400

[digitalradio] Winlink Scanning

2005-04-14 Thread Skip Teller
... Thanks... Skip KH6TY -- I'd like to clearly understand this issue, so if anyone can explain, please do so! Additional information can be found at http://winlink.org/status/ under CMBO traffic. 73, Skip KH6TY The K3UK DIGITAL MODES SPOTTING CLUSTER AT telnet

[digitalradio] DigiPan on Linux

2005-04-06 Thread Skip Teller
windows on DigiPan, so because it is such a lengthly troubleshooting process, you need to plan on devoting quite a bit of time. BTW, MixW also works like this on Linux, but not the secondary receive windows. Good luck if you try it, and I'm sure it will be a learning experience! 73, Skip KH6TY

[digitalradio] Re: DigiPan on Linux

2005-04-06 Thread Skip Teller
My next-to-last paragraph should read Version 0.5. 73, Skip KH6TY The K3UK DIGITAL MODES SPOTTING CLUSTER AT telnet://208.15.25.196/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send

[digitalradio] Re: Winlink take over?

2005-04-05 Thread Skip Teller
Message: 19 Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 21:39:06 -0500 From: Rick Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Winlink take over? Skip, With all due respect, (and you have considerable), it seems that some of the arguments may be counter productive and may in some cases affect the survival of amateur

[digitalradio] Running DigiPan 2.0 under Linux

2005-04-02 Thread Skip Teller
icon to run DigiPan under Linux. This is the best I can do at this point... 73, Skip KH6TY The K3UK DIGITAL MODES SPOTTING CLUSTER AT telnet://208.15.25.196/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ * To unsubscribe from

[digitalradio] Re: Hamshack Hack v.05 available at SourceForge

2005-04-01 Thread Skip Teller
as the permissions are concerned some things you might try first are: Adding Skip to the audio group and serial (maybe its called tty?) group. if that don't do it, you could change the owner on those devices with (from the root shell ... find that on the little penguin in the task bar

[digitalradio] Windows fonts under Linux

2005-04-01 Thread Skip Teller
I found a simple answer to pretty fonts when using Wine. Just go to here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/, download all fonts ending in .exe, and run the .exe files with Wine. Installation is automatic, and DigiPan looks beautiful now! 73, Skip KH6TY The K3UK DIGITAL MODES

[digitalradio] Re: Hamshack Hack v.05 available at SourceForge

2005-03-31 Thread Skip Teller
soundcard. 73, Skip KH6TY The K3UK DIGITAL MODES SPOTTING CLUSTER AT telnet://208.15.25.196/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use

[digitalradio] Re: Hw can I make a bookable Linux gMFSK CD ?

2005-03-05 Thread Skip Teller
is not as simple a turnkey design. If what you get is not simple enough, contact me off-list. The CD I remastered was intended for the completely computer-illiterate, but does not have any ham programs except GMFSK and Xlog. 73, Skip KH6TY The K3UK DIGITAL MODES SPOTTING CLUSTER AT telnet