[digitalradio] Re: Winlink Can Be Reliable in Emergencies

2007-12-14 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Sholto Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It can also clog up our bands. > > For instance I am monitoring a Pactor 2 transmission on 30m that has been on > going for around 25 minutes so far and the latest email to go through is > titled: > > > Do we

[digitalradio] Re: Testing fldigi and flarq

2007-12-10 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Charles Brabham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried it out, but had trouble with the audio not driving the waterfall > display sufficiently to function. You have to fiddle with a couple of numbers at the bottom of the window. Just to the left of the QSY

[digitalradio] Re: Hearing impaired hams

2007-12-01 Thread jhaynesatalumni
This seems like a good time to mention the late Bob Weitbrecht, W6NRM. He was for all practical purposes totally deaf, but was able to copy CW. I never knew if he had just enough hearing at one frequency to hear the tone or if he felt the vibrations on the headphones on his head. Anyway, at an e

[digitalradio] Unknown signal ID ?

2007-11-30 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Around 2045Z Friday the 30th Freq. 14076+1750 Mostly a steady tone, with several "clicks" per second, the clicks being probably PSK transitions.

[digitalradio] PSKmail (was Re: VHF digital setup)

2007-11-09 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "vk2eta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here is the wiki page below. Follow the download link on the left. > > You will get access to two download mirrors. They include the source > and installation instructions as well if you already have linux > running. >

[digitalradio] PSKmail (was Re: VHF digital setup)

2007-11-08 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rein Couperus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need pskmail version 0.5.4 to enjoy PSK250 arq. > http://pa0r.blogspirit.com > Where do you get this version if you just want the sources for Linux, rather than Puppy or Windows? I googled for it and got one page w

[digitalradio] Re: CQ DRCC...

2007-10-26 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that I have mentioned some of this before, but unless you have a > club of some kind where interested hams join and "buy in" to a concept, > a numbering system may not be something that many will gravitate toward. I

[digitalradio] Re: DM780 Reviews

2007-09-22 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Why do you tell us where to get it?

[digitalradio] Re: So there I was -

2007-09-15 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are very correct that Clover II was not a very good mode, especially > considering the price, since it was only a bit faster than Pactor I and > perhaps similar in ability to operate in weak signals. Yet I have one frien

[digitalradio] Re: What Mode Is It?

2007-07-26 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I haven't looked at the picture but will mention that a signal from a switching regulator power supply can look a lot like PSK. The carrier is a multiple of the switching frequency and is phase modulated at a 120 Hz rate.

[digitalradio] Re: HSCW Bandwidth?

2007-05-28 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know the approximate bandwidth for > injected audio tone high speed CW? Is there a way > to calculate this? > What speed do you have in mind? The word PARIS used as a standard for measuring words per minute co

[digitalradio] Re: Flushing buffer ?

2007-05-14 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "w6lqr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If there is text left to be transmitted, the program will send all > except the last word, no matter how long or short the message may be, > until I hit "Enter" again. I imagine this is intentional on the part of the pro

[digitalradio] Re: RTTY Configurations

2007-05-11 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Simon Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What are the common RTTY configurations? I ask because I am in the middle of porting / rewriting the fldigi RTTY code but have never used RTTY myself. I'm thinking about combinations of baud / shift / bits / . > > Si

[digitalradio] Re: Off-topic, but any help appreciated

2007-04-28 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "N6CRR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Spend $20 and swap out the power supply. I had a computer doing that > and it turned out to be that. Power supplies are cheap. > And cheap power supplies are often prodigious RF noise generators, even when the computer is

[digitalradio] Do we need a separate group for JT65A?

2007-04-10 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Or is the message volume going to die down after everybody here has worked everybody on all bands?

[digitalradio] Re: Gray Areas of Ham Radio Regulations and Rules

2007-03-20 Thread jhaynesatalumni
The cross-cultural part of this discussion reminded me of a broadcast by the late Alistair Cooke. He had just read a book by a U.S. lawyer, who asserted that the thicket of regulations in the U.S. covering every aspect of the law had begun with the Johnson administration and the War on Poverty. C

[digitalradio] Re: Domnio, PAX etc

2007-02-14 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rick, > > I hope you or someone is making a list of which modes work the best on each band and in varying conditions This harks back to my recent comment on Olivia - how one night I was getting so

[digitalradio] High speed Morse?

2007-02-08 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Just wondering if anybody here knows anything about high speed Morse. Seems like it was used in the 1940s, maybe earlier and later, sending Morse at speeds of 500 wpm or so. Transmission was from punched paper tape, and reception was on ink recorders; then operators transcribed the received mess

[digitalradio] Re: An observation on Olivia

2007-02-02 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, KV9U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the signal strength was about the same from both stations, then there > could be ionospheric conditions that may be affecting the GA signal. > Olivia is generally pretty resistant to most interference and the 16/500 > mod

[digitalradio] Re: An observation on Olivia

2007-02-02 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "expeditionradio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you tuned so that the phase scope is centered? > What software are you using, and how do you have the threshold > (squelch) set, and the allowable frequency drift? > > Bonnie VR2/KQ6XA > Hong Kong, etc. > The

[digitalradio] An observation on Olivia

2007-02-01 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Right now I'm copying a QSO where the stations are using Olivia 16/500 on 80M. I'm in NW Arkansas, and the two stations in the QSO are in Florida and Georgia. I'm getting solid copy on the Florida station and extremely lousy copy on the Georgia station. (Presumably they are getting good copy on

[digitalradio] Re: HF Digital Modes and NVIS (iow, short range??? as in 300 mi or

2007-01-24 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Danny Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gee Rick, you mean the whole telephone system, inclulding cells were out for > one cut? Sounds like they need to do some backup planning at the phone > company too. Yep, seems like I've read of even some military

[digitalradio] Re: Working Asia from Eastern USA

2007-01-23 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hopefully, your problem is that simple to identify and correct. So how did you correct it? Did you just turn off everything that causes noise when you want to use the radio, or did you find effective ways of filtering out the noise?

[digitalradio] Re: Digitalradio: A New Look !

2007-01-22 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Something I don't like is that it now comes up with a lavender background. Makes it hard to read the blue and gray buttons for "next" and "messages" and "older"

[digitalradio] Re: Movement toward open digital software?

2007-01-12 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, KV9U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My main criticism of Linux is that is has horrific fonts that are not > comparable to Windows fonts and the Linux folks try and make believe > that this is not a problem I'm not going to dispute your assertion, but I don't

[digitalradio] Re: AEA232MBX

2006-12-30 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I too have one of those that has not been turned on in quite a while. For RTTY the sound card implementations are a lot better, first because you can do better things with DSP, and second because the PK-232 uses a compromise 200 Hz shift for RTTY and AMTOR and Pactor whereas the standard shift for

[digitalradio] Re: External hard drives?

2006-12-29 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Isn't somebody selling a thumb drive that is all configured so everything runs out of it and doesn't touch the computer hard drive? Seems like I was reading about a product like this that was to make it safe to use a public computer for your private work.

[digitalradio] Focus follows mouse

2006-12-25 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Oh joy! A Christmas gift! I happened to be reading a computer help newspaper column today and the writer mentioned a thing called TweakUI available from Microsoft. So I got that, and it referred to another thing called Windows Powertoys, also from Microsoft. One or the other of these will let y

[digitalradio] Re: 14078.4 Success!

2006-12-23 Thread jhaynesatalumni
So it seems that just by suggesting a particular frequency for calling someone has stirred up a bunch of digital modes activity. One thing I'll suggest is that maybe we don't need to QSY after establishing a contact. Seems like you can listen on 14078.4 and if it isn't busy you can call on it, an

[digitalradio] Re: Clarification : Establishing digital calling/beacon frequencies

2006-12-21 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Roger J. Buffington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excepting Throb (which I have never used) I seem to find most of the A funny story: I was showing all the digital modes to a ham new to the territory, showing him what they sound like. So I switched to Throb

[digitalradio] Delta 44 Sound

2006-12-19 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Well I haven't solved the problem with Digipan, but the new card seems to work just fine with MultiPSK, and also with Linux, so I guess I will just forget about Digipan.

[digitalradio] Re: Digital Sound Cards -- What IS the best?

2006-12-18 Thread jhaynesatalumni
There is a web site that publishes sound card ratings. http://www.pcavtech.com/soundcards/index.htm

[digitalradio] Re: Digital Sound Cards -- What IS the best?

2006-12-18 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "cesco12342000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my thoughts (not veryfied) : > > You should use the max. sample rate the card is capable of. > Normally, this is 48khz. > Apparently Digipan sets the rate, and it wants to set it to something between 8000 and 1200

[digitalradio] Re: Anybody using M Audio Delta 44 sound card?

2006-12-18 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Simon Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Use the M Audit Delta Control Panel app to set the Variable Signal Levels > (Hardware Settings pane). > * Set In1 to -10 (more sensitive). > * Set Outputs to -10dBV (lower output). Did that. > > On the break-out bo

[digitalradio] Re: Anybody using M Audio Delta 44 sound card?

2006-12-17 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Simon Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, I'll check the things you suggest. Where I'm at is that it works just fine under Linux. Under Win95 it seems to be installed, and the M Audio mixer is there, but when I bring up a digi mode program such as D

[digitalradio] Anybody using M Audio Delta 44 sound card?

2006-12-16 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I need help.

[digitalradio] Will Windows Vista bring a windfall?

2006-12-11 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Since people are being told they have to upgrade to new faster computers to run Windows Vista, I wonder if that means there will be a lot of somewhat less capable machines available used or free that will run Linux and earlier versions of Windows just fine.

[digitalradio] Further to MultiPSK and WINE

2006-11-28 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Well it seems that for me an earlier version of MultiPSK does indeed work under WINE. But the latest version gives this illegal access through address zero trap over and over.

[digitalradio] Re: New multimode program for Linux

2006-11-28 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I just tried running multipsk under wine. After not finding the volume control it put up a box that says something like it is trying to access through 00 and then puts a mess on the screen. What incantation are you using to get it to work?

[digitalradio] Re: What constitutes a fax?

2006-11-28 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, KV9U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now if you convert this .doc file into a moderately compressed (90%) pdf > file, it grows to 67 K, so that is probably not a good direction. > That raises the question of how you converted it. You can scan a document and con

[digitalradio] Fast HF Modem Development Re: OFDM data D1D

2006-11-27 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, KV9U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Which has made me wonder why so few digital hams send FAX images on the > phone bands. For me it's because digital=digital and FAX=analog, hi.

[digitalradio] Part of the problem

2006-11-17 Thread jhaynesatalumni
it seems to me is this regulation by emission designators. If I have a black box, and FSK at RF comes out of it, who's to say whether what is inside is a frequency-shifted oscillator or a SSB generator being fed with FSK audio tones. Or some frequency synthesis scheme that is able to shift betwee

[digitalradio] Re: Sound Card Quality & Digital Modes?

2006-11-06 Thread jhaynesatalumni
There is a web site http://www.pcavtech.com/soundcards/index.htm that has quality comparisons on a whole bunch of sound cards. There was the article on SDR in October 2005 QST where they say the Delta 44 is a pretty good one to use. Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dyn

[digitalradio] RTTY History (skip if this bores you)

2006-11-02 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I've been going through the RTTY material in some old issues of CQ magazine. Thought some of you might be interested in the history. At first most of the operation was in the Eastern U.S. on 2 meters using AFSK (and I guess it was 2 meter AM, not FM in those days, as they talk about SCR-522 and

[digitalradio] Networks for emergencies

2006-10-27 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Seems like a lot was being said on this topic recently. The November issue of Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery has an article on Hastily Formed Networks that might be of interest to some of you. Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other

[digitalradio] Efficient spectrum usage

2006-10-24 Thread jhaynesatalumni
And then right now on 20M we have a DX station, and a cacaphony of people calling him spread over 10-15 KHz. 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.yaho

digitalradio@yahoogroups.com

2006-10-24 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "jgorman01" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure emergency communications is or should be the driver here. > > I don't think anyone (or at least most) would begrudge some HF > frequencies be used for 3 kHz data during an actual emergency. In fact it

[digitalradio] Re: RTTY Shift

2006-10-13 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, John Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 09:38 PM 10/12/2006, you wrote in part: > > >I'm just wondering why we don't see more use of 85 or some other > >narrower shift in amateur use. > > > I think that is because there is still a lot of non computer

[digitalradio] RTTY Shift

2006-10-12 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Back in ancient times the commercial and military used 850 Hz shift for RTTY FSK. This was adopted by the hams as soon as FSK was allowed in the ham bands, and in fact 850 Hz was required by the original FCC rules. I suspect the main reason for the very wide shift in the old days was to accomodat

[digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-11 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Lindecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have listened some test in spanish with artificial voice reading words. It was not too bad. The real problem is to translate voice in symbols, in a reliable way. > Yes. There was that fairly recent QST articl

[digitalradio] On SDR and DRM

2006-10-11 Thread jhaynesatalumni
The current (October 2006) issue of IEEE Spectrum has an article on another software defined radio, made by Ettus. http://www.ettus.com which is a receive-only item. Also an item about DRM in Europe, which may not catch on because there are few receivers you can buy, and they are expensive, and

[digitalradio] Re: First DRM Reception

2006-10-11 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jim > > > You need to mute the MIC audio on your sound card. That will stop the WinDRM > digital signal from making it to your PC speakers and mixing with the > decoded voice. Once it starts to decode, WinDRM will playback

[digitalradio] Re: First digital voice QSO !

2006-10-01 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm monitoring 7296 USB if anyone wants to give a try. > I was listening at 0100Z and heard ALE tones but so far nothing on DRM. Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas

[digitalradio] Re: First digital voice QSO !

2006-10-01 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, kd4e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Windrm appears to only function under the proprietary > MS version of windows. Have we exchanged one form > of proprietary for another? > > Is there a compatible version for Apple and Linux? > It appears to be working under

[digitalradio] Re: Implementing Contestia/RTTYM, could use some advice

2006-09-27 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Joe Veldhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello list. I have been trying to implement support for the Contestia > and RTTYM modes in a fairly new digimode app, fldigi (www.w1hkj.com). > I haven't looked yet, but you might look in the MultiPSK documentation, s

[digitalradio] Re: The Internet is Unreliable for Amateur RadioService Emergency Communication

2006-09-19 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In 1945 the U.S. military ran long range HF communications almost entirely on CW...today, the total amount of data throughput of WWII would not even launch a single fighter. > Reminded me of a talk

[digitalradio] Proprietary and non-proprietary systems

2006-09-19 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Does anyone know what of Pactor I/II/III is covered by patents versus what is proprietary information, or trade secrets? With patents there is at least supposed to be full disclosure of how the thing works; and patents have a limited lifetime. Then we have talked about STANAG-xxx and MIL-STD-xxx

[digitalradio] PSKmail

2006-09-15 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I see it mentioned from time to time - are there any servers one can monitor or exchange traffic with? I don't know where/when to look for them. It looks like the changes to gMFSK are already included in the w1hkj gMFSK sources (but have to be enabled at compile time). Need a Digital mode QS

[digitalradio] Re: ARQ Soundcard Modes

2006-09-15 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I'm still trying to understand this matter of precision timing. Is it just that the Pactor mode allows only a very short time for the ACK/NAK, or is there some synchronization from packet to packet that must be maintained? Is it possible that one could write a sound card program that could monito

[digitalradio] Re: Highspeed HF modes...Aug 1999.

2006-09-08 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I remember corresponding with someone, and it was well before 1999, who had developed an implementation of MIL-STD-something or STANAG-something. At the time he was still trying to get permission from his employer to release the code publicly. Maybe the same person and I had never heard the rest

[digitalradio] Re: MMTTY v/s HAL DXP38 v/s???

2006-09-08 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "kf8zn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > QUESTION: How does MMTTY compare head to head with a TNC, such as the > DXP-38 for instance ?? There really are two questions, MMTTY compared with a DSP TNC like the DXP-38 and compared with an all-hardware TNC like the P

[digitalradio] Re: ARQ sound card modes

2006-09-08 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Jose Amador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe only one modulation scheme (Layer One stuff) is > not good enough for all situations, and different > bands or propagation conditions may require different > solutions. SCS boxes do it with different levels of > P

[digitalradio] Re: MMTTY and WINPSK Friendly Computer??

2006-09-07 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After giving my son the top-of-the-line but out of date > PC, There is a certain milestone in life that one of my friends passed a few years ago. Through the years he had given his outmoded computers to his kids

[digitalradio] Re: MMTTY and WINPSK Friendly Computer??

2006-09-06 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I can't speak to what you buy off the floor at Wal-Mart, but I'm using one of the computers from their web site, have been for several years now. The "Microtel" with 2.4GHz P4 and it has a Gigabyte mother board that is ATX with a real COM port. You could look for a used machine with a real COM po

[digitalradio] Re: Elecraft K2 for digital modes

2006-08-31 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I built a K-2 with all the addons except for the DSP audio, and used it quite a bit for digital modes. There were some problems with frequency drift in some modes. e.g. in PSK if the receiver uses AFC there was no problem, but in MFSK it would drift more than the receiver software could tolerate.

[digitalradio] -tor modes and PCs

2006-08-28 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I'm willing to believe that the timing tolerances in -tor modes are so tight that ordinary PC operating systems cannot cope with them the way a dedicated processor can. What I don't understand is why the tolerances need to be so tight. The transmitter sends a packet and then listens for an ACK o

[digitalradio] Re: PSK with Mike Plug or ACC plug on Icom Rig

2006-08-19 Thread jhaynesatalumni
That should work fine. As a matter of academic curiosity, what kind of TNC are they using in MARS these days? 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://group

[digitalradio] Re: PSK with Mike Plug or ACC plug on Icom Rig

2006-08-18 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Harold Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. Would be interested to hear if you are using any isolation when you > pick off audio from the ACC connector that feeds the soundcard, TNC and > other modem. I have not found it necessary to use isolation when tak

[digitalradio] Re: PSK with Mike Plug or ACC plug on Icom Rig

2006-08-17 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "jerryrp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Rascal interface that uses the mike plug and ext speaker > conection to inferace the radio with my rascal. My question is it > better to use the ACC plug in the rear of the radio to interface to the > radio? The

[digitalradio] Little SDR (was Re: Best Mode for QRP?)

2006-07-22 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I don't know offhand. I googled for "software defined radio" and kit and came up with, among 39,000 other things, the SoftRock-40 - but that looks a little different from what my friend has. But I think it came from one of the QRP equipment suppliers. His was on two little PC boards.

[digitalradio] Re: Best Mode for QRP?

2006-07-21 Thread jhaynesatalumni
A few quibbles. Accuracy is a more-or-less thing. I used RTTY a lot back in the late 1950s, and even when copy isn't perfect you can have an enjoyable QSO because you can pretty well make out what the other guy is saying. With somewhat worse conditions you can't and you give up. But imperfect c

[digitalradio] Re: DomminoEX

2006-07-19 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, John Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's this animal sound like? > Got a WAV file of it? > Don't think I have run across it as yet. Just install the software, go into transmit, and listen to what it sounds like with the PC speaker or headphones.

[digitalradio] Re: APRS

2006-06-27 Thread jhaynesatalumni
For transmit only I remember there was an article in QST fairly recently - showed an APRS locator transmitter being carried by a dog. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XI

[digitalradio] Re: DominoEX in Field Day

2006-06-25 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The experimental digital operators were nowhere to be found. I saw NO ONE > using Throb, Olivia, DominoEx, or Hell in Field Day. I for one consider a contest weekend to be a time to avoid the radio and play with

[digitalradio] Clover?

2006-06-22 Thread jhaynesatalumni
So there's still a lot of Clover activity? Maybe I don't listen there enough, but then I don't hear enough to justify listening there. All I was pointing out is that Clover is a 500 Hz wide mode and for some reason it operates below the 14070 PSK band. Of course on a contest weekend all band pla

[digitalradio] Re: Digital Frequency List - Bandplans.com

2006-06-21 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Aside from what's been said recently, once upon a time there was a lot of Clover operation in the range 14064.5-14066.5 and such. Since there is hardly any Clover anymore, why don't we operate other digital modes down there? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[digitalradio] Re: Why is there no psk31 activity on 30 meters?

2006-06-17 Thread jhaynesatalumni
> In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Don" wrote: > > > > Just wondering why there is no PSK31 activity on 30 meters? Seems like I guess it's like that restaurant that Yogi Berra talked about. "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." except in this case nobody goes there because nobody

[digitalradio] Re: Throb

2006-05-31 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Vince - KB9SJT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So that's what that was...  what software is available for Throb??  I > know MixW will do it, any others??  73's I was using MultiPSK.  There are also a couple of stand-alone Throb programs.  And gmfsk under

[digitalradio] Throb

2006-05-30 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Just took part in a 3-way Throb QSO on 40M tonight.  Been quite a while since I have heard any Throb on the air. 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:

[digitalradio] Re: CQ PACTOR 7074kHz afsk de KU2A

2006-05-28 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, KV9U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > value for such use. It would be surprised if many would use Pactor > anymore for conversational use as we did years ago (and Amtor too) > because the keyboard modes are reasonably fast for many typing speeds > and are ofte

[digitalradio] Re: software

2006-05-19 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try Multipsk, it supports MT63. I talked to someone recently who asserted that IZ8BLY MT63 works much better than MT63 under MultiPSK.  Can anyone confirm or deny? I haven't heard enough MT63 lately to make a c

[digitalradio] Re: DominoEx Contest: Straight dominoes or otherwise?

2006-05-07 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Usually when there is a contest on I turn off the radio and go do something else until it is over.  I might listen to a DominoEX contest just for the chance to copy some DominoEX, which seems to be extremely rare.  But to evaluate it I would want to hold a longer conversation than the typical co

[digitalradio] Re: Do we really need to know?

2006-04-13 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Maybe we cynics should start putting in other computer models as a joke. How about "computer here is a PDP-8" or "computer here is IBM 704"? (Now that one could get you into an interesting talk about power consumption!) Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Oth

[digitalradio] Re: PSK harmonics?

2006-03-30 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I have also encountered non-harmonic spurious tones from time to time. First time was a friend running a TS-440 on RTTY. As RF output was increased there would be a spurious tone come on in addition to the AFSK he was intentionally transmitting. He was able to get rid of it by connecting the rad

[digitalradio] Re: Anybody know why ?

2006-03-21 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Mel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use Digipan to operate on BPSK31, I transmit for a couple of hours > and then switch off the computer to have a bite to eat. > > When I return to the shack, I switch on the computer, load up Digipan > and the screen show

[digitalradio] Re: Demostrating digital modes without lots of equipment ?

2006-03-21 Thread jhaynesatalumni
My portable station consists of an Elecraft K-2 and its antenna tuner and a laptop PC. The K-2 and its tuner fit into a padded six-pack cooler bag. Another such bag holds the power supply, PC to soundcard interface box, key, microphone, and headphones. So that's 3 packages for the whole thing.

[digitalradio] Re: "RTTY standard"

2006-03-20 Thread jhaynesatalumni
The number of developers of soundcard RTTY software is pretty small, so I think it's reasonable to ask them to make software interoperable with a mechanical TTY. K6STI was concerned about this with his RITTY program and worked out end-of-line processing that is satisfactory. W1HKJ has just done

[digitalradio] Re: New Member

2006-03-18 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, John Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (just between you and me, maybe some day the software > writers will fix their software so it send a CR/LF after > 72 charters. Or the computer operators will hit the enter > key at the end of a line and forget all about

[digitalradio] Interoperability

2006-03-17 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I went to an IEEE meeting last night, where the speaker was K5XS Bernie Skoch, Brig. Gen. USAF (retired), consultant to DOD and various companies. He talked mostly about interoperability issues among the main armed services, various other government agencies, and other nations. One of his slides

[digitalradio] Re: PAX 2 Beacon

2006-03-11 Thread jhaynesatalumni
Wonder if you could put a time or a serial number in beacon transmissions. Reason is that I am not copying all of them, and with that additional information I could monitor for a while and see what fracton of them I am getting. Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.

[digitalradio] Re: PAX 2 MultiPSK

2006-03-10 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I haven't spent the time getting my head around it, but I did copy your beacon just now. Also tried a call but didn't get anywhere. Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ D

[digitalradio] Re: CW program???

2006-03-08 Thread jhaynesatalumni
MultiPSK does CW 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 <*> To visit you

[digitalradio] Re: Linux Packet

2006-02-26 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "N6CRR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any of the Linux heads reading this reflector know of a good Linux > based sound card Packet program? There is the thing called PSKMail, which used a modified gmfsk to do some kind of packet-ish communication; but I haven'

[digitalradio] Re: Is PSK superior to Olivia?

2006-02-18 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I was just in an Olivia QSO on 20M and had a pactor station fire up right on top of us and still got nearly 100% copy. I don't think you can do that with PSK. Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yaho

[digitalradio] Re: gmfsk mods

2006-02-16 Thread jhaynesatalumni
In the README-hkj.txt file it says to be sure you have the hamlib directives properly set. Where do you go to see them? 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: htt

[digitalradio] Re: Should some digital modes be considered obsolete?

2006-01-30 Thread jhaynesatalumni
It's my understanding that DominoEX is supposed to replace DominoF. I can't say about the others - certainly there are more modes out there than people are using. And then some modes I would call "archaic" but not "obsolete". Such as Baudot RTTY - there actually seems to be an increasing number

[digitalradio] Re: NTS and traffic handling and digital

2006-01-08 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Tim Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There seems to be a lot of interest in doing the glamour work of handling > emergency agency traffic but little interest in doing the grunt work of > handling traffic for the public. > I'm surprised to learn there is any

[digitalradio] Re: Calling all experimenters ( A Proposal)

2005-12-08 Thread jhaynesatalumni
WILLIAM JEX QUICKLY CAPTURED FIVE DOZEN GOOD REPUBLICANS (A Western Union test sentence from the 1950s. Of course one might question whether there exist as many as five dozen good Republicans, but that would be bringing partisanship into the issue.) Yahoo! Groups Sp

[digitalradio] Best digital software for the blind?

2005-12-08 Thread jhaynesatalumni
I've been maintaining the digital modes software for W5YM, the University of Arkansas club station. Now we have a blind member of the club, and he has trouble using the digital modes because they are so visual - like tuning to the waterfall. I'm wondering if people can suggest ways around the prob

[digitalradio] Re: Different Subject (for a change)

2005-11-30 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Leigh L Klotz, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As of now, it is unfortunately an undocumented proprietary mode in some > versions of MixW. In view of that, is it even legal to use these modes? (In the U.S.) Yahoo! Groups Sp

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