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 ordinan

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

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

2007-09-23 Thread Skip Teller
.100-7.105 MHz, or 3.585-3.600 MHz segments. 73, Skip KH6TY

[digitalradio] Re:Linux capable digital interfaces

2007-08-29 Thread Skip Teller
ansceiver VOX for PTT. I did not even need any isolation transformers (which I usually need for my Yaesu FT-980) with other interfaces, in order to prevent feedback. The SignaLink USB also works, but costs $100. 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

Re: [digitalradio] Digest Number 3496

2007-06-03 Thread Skip Teller
he broad beamwidth of the skeleton-slot 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

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

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

2007-06-02 Thread Skip KH6TY
derived 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 c

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

2007-06-01 Thread Skip KH6TY
s Posted by: "Rick" [EMAIL 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

[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 Subje

[digitalradio] Re: Ideas for VHF/UHF digital net?

2007-05-02 Thread Skip Teller
. If you try this approach with a net, I'd appreciate an email letting me know your experience to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or just posting it on the reflector here. 73, Skip KH6TY 7. Ideas for VHF/UHF digital net? Posted by: "Joe Veldhuis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrode_kd8atu

Re: [digitalradio] Digest Number 3456

2007-04-29 Thread Skip Teller
ons elsewhere in Part 97 that I did not find? 73, 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

[digitalradio] Re: narrow filters/PSK

2007-03-08 Thread Skip Teller
on in their receiver 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 "ri

[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] "Net" frequency

2007-02-24 Thread Skip
to interfere with our digital activity on their lower sideband, 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
! ;-) I wasted a full 40-hour week trying 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, usin

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

2007-01-09 Thread Skip Teller
0 is much more pleasant to use. Some rigs can run rated SSB 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 ARRL Petition

2006-12-16 Thread Skip Teller
of hams trying to communicate on the rest of the band. We need both - effective busy signal detectors to maximize performance between automatic stations within a narrow subband, regulations to keep them there, and regulations to prevent other minority interests from dominating at the expense of the many. Just my two cents worth... 73, Skip KH6TY

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

2006-12-11 Thread Skip Teller
vity and, being an amateur activity and not a commercial one, can afford to wait 1-2 minutes of a picture to complete. 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

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

2006-12-07 Thread Skip Teller
be a good idea to first educate oneself as to the current usage and limitations, since that IS important! 73, Skip KH6TY Connect to telnet://cluster.dynalias.org a single node spotting/alert system dedicated to digital and CW QSOs. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the

[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

[digitalradio] Re: digipan

2005-07-09 Thread Skip Teller
DigiPan back to "normal", and if the waterfall is still all blue, you just don't have enough audio going into the soundcard Line or Microphone input, or the wrong one of those inputs selected or the slider at the bottom. 73, Skip KH6TY The K3UK DIGITAL MODES SPOTTING CL

[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

[digitalradio] Re: Write up on Harv's Hamshack Hack - ARRL site

2005-05-26 Thread Skip Teller
Congratulations to Harv for his success and thanks for all the hard work it took to make his Hamshack Hack CD! It takes hundreds of hours to "remaster" a KNOPPIX CD to accomplish that! 73, Skip KH6TY The K3UK DIGITAL MODES SPOTTING CLUSTER AT telnet://208.15.25.196/ Yahoo! Gr

[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

[digitalradio] RE: Winlink Scanning

2005-04-22 Thread Skip Teller
picture? \>From: "Rick Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \> Skip, > > Anyone attempting to connect to a PMBO is really no different than any other > ham calling CQ in the hopes of receiving a reply, except that in the case of > having a PMBO potentially on frequency i

[digitalradio] RE: Winlink Scanning

2005-04-21 Thread Skip Teller
roblem is: 1. Eliminate scanning. 2. Reassign PMBO to frequencies in a contiguous block, with a geographical separation of PMBO's on alternate frequencies, as much as possible, to lessen the chance of adjacent channel interference. This keeps the Winlink traffic handling capacity the same,

[digitalradio] RE: Winlink Scanning

2005-04-20 Thread Skip Teller
canning to the client station is that he does not have to "listen", but the Winlink client stations ALWAYS 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

[digitalradio] RE: Winlink Scanning

2005-04-19 Thread Skip Teller
4CJX runs *three* unattended stations on *three* bands, 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 transmis

[digitalradio] Winlink Scanning

2005-04-14 Thread Skip Teller
hree. Please explain... 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 S

[digitalradio] Re: Winlink take over?

2005-04-07 Thread Skip Teller
f they insist on doing so, and is more than enough space to devote to emergency communications. Leave the other 96% of the HF spectrum for other PSK31, RTTY contesting, award-chasing, CW, MFSK16, and phone free from constant disruption by unattended Winlink PMBO stations or Winlink client statio

[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 gr

[digitalradio] DigiPan on Linux

2005-04-06 Thread Skip Teller
y receive windows. Good luck if you try it, and I'm sure it will be a learning experience! 73, Skip KH6TY Linux newbie 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/

[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

Re: [digitalradio] Digest Number 1490

2005-04-04 Thread Skip Teller
! It may also mean an invasion of Pactor-III robots into the RTTY contesting areas. Please spread the word to every ham you know or contact! 73, Skip KH6TY Winlink wants YOUR frequencies! Not satisfied with dominating the 3.8% of the HF ham frequencies set aside by

[digitalradio] Running DigiPan 2.0 under Linux

2005-04-02 Thread Skip Teller
he path. Click on the DigiPan 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/di

[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

2005-04-01 Thread Skip Teller
. > Hmmm ... you're doing stuff I never tried with Knoppix ... did you > install the thing to your Hard Drive? I've only run it off the CD. > Oh well, that's ham radio! :-) > > As far as the permissions are concerned some things you might try first are: > > Addin

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

2005-03-31 Thread Skip Teller
Harv, Using your version 0.3, which finds my Soundblaster card OK, I cannot configure gMFSK to use the serial port, /dev/ttyS0, because I get a "permissions denied" error message. I am logged in as user Skip. Root logins are not allowed. How do I change permissions for /dev/t

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

2005-03-31 Thread Skip Teller
could not find a working 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 emai

[digitalradio] Re: Speech Recognition Query

2005-03-28 Thread Skip Teller
use by many sight-impaired hams on PSK31, and I printed someone recently that was still using it and recommended it to another to give it a try. A QST article sometime in the past two years also described an attempt to use standard speech software for PSK31 and might be worth searcing for.

[digitalradio] Re: USB 5.1 Audio Adapter

2005-03-27 Thread Skip Teller
if you already knew all this! 73, Skip KH6TY > Message: 1 >Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:46:16 - >From: "mac2251" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: USB 5.1 Audio Adapter > > >Does anyone have a USB audio adapter and how did they get it to > trans

[digitalradio] Pascal under Linux

2005-03-14 Thread Skip Teller
, a program I For a Windowing IDE, check Borland's site for Kylix, which is the Linux version of Delphi, which is based on Pascal. Kylix is free for non-commercial use. I think Patrick wrote Multipsk for Windows using Delphi. 73, Skip KH6TY The K3UK DIGITAL MODES SPO

[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