[digitalradio] Re: The US Ham radio service SEDAN

2006-02-28 Thread doc
purpose if useful here. 73, doc kd4e Respectfully, you might want to clue your EOC in on the SEDAN network and how it works. Those folks have a lot of experience with tactical emcomm using packet. What impressed me the most is that they have known for a long time that forwarded messages, e.g

Re: [digitalradio] Re: NTS and traffic handling and digital

2006-02-25 Thread doc
hardware at one end or both? Given the history of hype one is required to be cynical. IMHO, YMMV ... 73, doc kd4e Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http

Re: [digitalradio] Re: QOTD

2006-02-25 Thread doc
It would make FCC-mandated self-policing possible. Right now it is impossible. QRM is not the only challenge, improper and/or illegal use of Ham spectrum is also a legitimate concern. John Becker wrote: This would be a unjust burden. In no way would it reduce QRM. Need a Digital mode

Re: [digitalradio] Analog-Digital Emergency Net?

2006-02-25 Thread doc
of each of the modes rather than trying to force one or the other to do its best and to also try to do what it is not designed for. WDYT? 73, doc kd4e I was initially supportive of the regulation by bandwidth because I erroneously thought that it meant that you could have any wide bandwidth

[digitalradio] Re: [Was: Starting a digital 30m traffic/ragchew net] Comparing Digital Modes

2006-02-24 Thread doc
Excellent comparison list! Thanks! How would you compare modes capable of transferring text files vs keyboard to keyboard, please? Thanks! 73, doc kd4e RTTY has no error correction capability and is 45.5 baud. AMTOR is basically RTTY with an ARQ mode. PSK-31 is 31 baud and more robust

[digitalradio] Analog-Digital Emergency Net?

2006-02-24 Thread doc
same thing. WDYT? 73, doc kd4e Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links

Re: [digitalradio] Analog-Digital Emergency Net?

2006-02-24 Thread doc
but less challenging than asking the FCC to flex the regs, even for the sake of Homeland Security-relevant communications testing! doc I have long wanted to be able to do this, here in the U.S., just like is done now with SSTV on several HF bands. But what you propose is currently illegal on all

Re: [digitalradio] Re: QOTD

2006-02-24 Thread doc
was in use but KD4E did not hear that station. If so W0JAB so informs KD4E and they QSY prior to continuing any QSO. This has been the Ham tradition so long as I know. At least since the 60's and I'd guess long before that! 73, doc kd4e Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet

Re: [digitalradio] Re: QOTD

2006-02-24 Thread doc
mode user can be cited for willful QRM (and they have been) then the precedent has been established and no mode deserves an exemption. I am not sure why the FCC (or the ARRL) would see this in any other way. It is, much as I hate the expression, a no-brainer. IMHO ... ;-) doc The SCAMP

Re: [digitalradio] Re: NTS and traffic handling and digital

2006-02-23 Thread doc
is king. These are simple and indisputable facts that no emergency management professional may ignore unless he wants to end up like the former FEMA Director. IMHO, YMMV ... 73, doc kd4e Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector

Re: [digitalradio] Re: email to Internet without a PC ?

2006-02-23 Thread doc
if they are going to find widespread use and if they are to meet EMCOMM requirements to be highly redundant. What sense does it make to be MS-centric only to discover that just when you need your app MS has crashed again or been hacked for the 10,000th time? IMHO, YMMV ... 73, doc kd4e I would caution

Re: [digitalradio] Re: NTS and traffic handling and digital

2006-02-22 Thread doc
. The hardware is so rare as to be readily postulated as probably unavailable at both ends and the complexity of the systems rise above standard emergency requirements for mission-critical applications. A third-tier or fourth-tier nice-to-have perhaps. IMHO, YMMV ... 73, doc kd4e Last August San Diego

Re: [digitalradio] Re: NTS and traffic handling and digital

2006-02-21 Thread doc
that no one is above the law, regs, nor common courtesy. ;-) doc Hmmm. I have sent them a note or two in the past over exactly that. I or someone else was using a freq and they fired up. I let them no in unequivocal terms, that is not suppose to happen. They are no different than anyone else

Re: [digitalradio] Re: NTS and traffic handling and digital

2006-02-21 Thread doc
for any reason is always an infraction. Too late and too much of a cold for more ... and no real need. ;-) doc On the other hand, I do not feel at all obliged to vacate a frequency where a scheduled transmission or net is going to meet, in say half an hour. Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect

Re: [digitalradio] Re: NTS and traffic handling and digital

2006-02-20 Thread doc
not balanced with the receive side). IMHO, YMMV ... 73, doc kd4e Lets try the guy 150 miles from you well within your ring of silence (you can't copy each other if you had to) listens to the frenquncy (unable to ask if the frequency is in use on every mode known to man) hears nothing. brings

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