Re: [digitalradio] Re: Solving the RSID problem once and for all

2010-08-18 Thread mikea
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 02:39:56AM -0400, Tony wrote: On 8/16/2010 7:01 AM, jon_g4fut wrote: I thoroughly agree with you Tony. It becomes a chore when one cannot recognise a signals footprint and then has to click through all the digital modes. THEN the wretched transmission ends before

Re: [digitalradio] World's nastiest PSK31 signal

2010-08-03 Thread mikea
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 09:18:20PM -0400, Andy obrien wrote: On 10M tonight, from Mexico See attached, the image around 500 Hz is his MAIN signal with LOTS of side bars, and the image around 1700 Hz is also him ! I don't see an attachment, OM. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx

Re: [digitalradio] Re : new question

2010-07-15 Thread mikea
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 08:46:18PM -, raf3151019 wrote: Do any Old Buffers in the UK remember the original Ros, the one by the name of Edmundo Ros ? He used to have a small band, had a half hour a week on the old BBC radio and his band played at social gatherings where the young rich and

Re: [digitalradio] Contestia Digital Mode Freqs

2010-07-12 Thread mikea
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:49:43AM -0400, Thomas F. Giella NZ4O wrote: Contestia is one of the few mainstream digital modes that I have not worked. Where should I look for QSO's frequency wise? Just above the PSK crowd, generally. I've seen them intermixed with Olivia and other multitone modes

Re: [digitalradio] ROS are sending data from your PC

2010-07-09 Thread mikea
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 12:47:51PM -0700, Jeff Moore wrote: As for the 3000 people that are being quiet on this list, how much of that is that they don't want to be singled out by a psychotic non-ham software author for inclusion in his list?? This is my first -- and, I hope, my last -- post

Re: [digitalradio] in need of a USB to DB9 cable

2010-05-11 Thread mikea
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:52:15AM -0500, John Becker, WJAB wrote: Anyone know of a source? It would help to hear more about the application, John. I suspect you want a USB-Serial converter, rather than just a patch cable. There are dozens of the out there, some working better than others. The

Re: [digitalradio] Why does the ARRL continue to push for Pactor III support...

2010-05-10 Thread mikea
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 02:53:16PM +0100, Ian Wade G3NRW wrote: From: Andy obrien k3uka...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 Time: 08:08:41 and 2K80J2D (which is generally known as PACTOR-III) ??? are popular narrowband data modes. Since when was Pactor III a narrow-band mode? In

Re: [digitalradio] VHF / UHF Digital Beyond line-of-sight

2010-04-20 Thread mikea
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 03:32:18AM -0400, KH6TY wrote: Hi Tony, Thanks for making the recording of aircraft reflections. Yes, we also see and hear aircraft reflections mixed with atmospheric disturbances all the time. The aircraft reflections sound similar to what you hear on the beacon,

Re: [digitalradio] RSID Query

2010-04-12 Thread mikea
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 07:18:48PM -0400, Tony wrote: All, I was just wondering if there's any confusion or misunderstanding among the group about RS-ID? We all know that it's not always easy to identify a mode by sight and sound yet I still see many calling CQ without any mode

Re: [digitalradio] Opposition to the KQ6XA Recommendation

2010-04-07 Thread mikea
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:37:25PM -, kb2hsh wrote: This is little more than a frequency grab by Bonnie that would benefit the HF-ALE group, I feel, the most. If adopted, this would give Bonnie her own frequencies...channels if you will, that she or ANYONE else from the HF-ALE network

Re: [digitalradio] KQ6XA Recommendation IARU Region 2 Bandplan to ARRL

2010-04-06 Thread mikea
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 10:10:22AM -0400, KH6TY wrote: Yes, do it! I just received this response from ARRL: Thank you for taking the time to respond to the ARRL's invitation to submit comments on the IARU Region 2 Band Plans to the ARRL Ad Hoc Band Planning Committee. Your comments will be

Re: [digitalradio] Re: KB1OOQ-5 back ON-LINE (Comcast comes through)

2010-03-26 Thread mikea
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:06:38AM -, aa777888athotmaildotcom wrote: Pretty good, those Comcast folks. Expensive as hell, but good. Fixed in an hour and before bedtime, even :-) Very unusual to have an outage, actually, especially with no weather in the area. In 10 years I can count them

Re: [digitalradio] Re: KB1OOQ-5 back ON-LINE (Comcast comes through)

2010-03-26 Thread mikea
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 02:19:00PM +, Stelios Bounanos wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:41:19 -0500, mikea mi...@mikea.ath.cx said: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:06:38AM -, aa777888athotmaildotcom wrote: Very unusual to have an outage, actually, especially with no weather in the area

Re: [digitalradio] I'm curious about this Mix W oddity

2010-02-23 Thread mikea
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 02:56:31PM -, raf3151019 wrote: Its happened so often that I'm now curious to know why a CQ response from a user of Mix W, always a Russian or an east European station, begins halfway down the screen. Each line of information is often two or three lines apart which

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Curious sound card modes question -

2010-02-22 Thread mikea
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 08:30:29PM -0500, KH6TY wrote: It will be spread spectrum if the tone frequencies are controlled by a code as explained in the ROS documentation: A system is defined to be a spread-spectrum system if it fulfills the following requirements: 1. The signal occupies a

Re: [digitalradio] Re: RS ID

2010-01-06 Thread mikea
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:57:44PM +0100, f6...@free.fr wrote: Hello all, To complete what Votjech wrote, for technical aspects of RS ID there is a paper about RS ID under the PAPERS on my Web site (http://f6cte.free.fr/PAPERS.ZIP). The hashing method introduced by Votjech is really

Re: [digitalradio] Need your help picking HF radio.

2009-12-25 Thread mikea
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:07:39AM -0700, Alan Wilson wrote: I'd have to go with the Yaesu ft-857D, it does it all with a small footprint, reasonable price and very dependable. +1 Make sure it's the 857D, not the base FT-857; some of the base 857s have a problem with runaway oscillation on

Re: [digitalradio] Which radio ?

2009-11-21 Thread mikea
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:02:05AM +, Ted Wager wrote: I am returning to amateur radio after 15 years qrt and looking for a new radio Main interests are listening hf and digi modes, principally psk..My choice is down to either the yaesu ft450 or the Yaesu ft-857d.Any comments on my

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Puppy Mail

2009-10-22 Thread mikea
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 07:23:10PM -0700, Russell Blair wrote: Andy, I cant get the Puppy to load from CD, I put the CD in the drive and reboot, the monitor just goes blank.?Did you have to do anything other than just put the CD in the drive and reboot. I download the ISO?(PSKmail-Puppy-412.iso).

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Puppy Mail

2009-10-22 Thread mikea
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 08:34:08AM -0700, Russell Blair wrote: Well Mike, I did all that other having the decodeing ring to chang the iso to ? so it would load from a boot. I first loaded to a 512M memery stick. on the 512 stick it show as an iso how do I convert it to a bootable program.

Re: [digitalradio] Re: RS ID use ?

2009-10-22 Thread mikea
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:48:04PM -0400, F.R. Ashley wrote: Hi all, I'm another long-time MixW user and prefer it over the other programs. But like Andy, K3UK, I'm afraid MixW is becoming another orphaned ham program! How well I remember the old XPWin programs and Gary just threw in

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Damm, my SignaLink has Stopped TXing

2009-10-20 Thread mikea
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:26:55AM +1300, Gmail - Kevin, Natalia, Stacey Rochelle wrote: HI All, The SignaLink would not work with any data software even MixW I tried. DM780, MMSSTV, WinMor, MixW and a couple of others . I pulled all the cables out and re-inserted them.

Re: [digitalradio] Radio for 30 Meters.?????

2009-10-09 Thread mikea
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 02:28:22PM -, ve3hsc wrote: Who makes the BEST radio for 30 meters. That's a how long is a piece of string? question, OM. Best with respect to what qualities? Sensitivity, audio quality, filtering, DSP, tolerance of strong signals near a weak one, what? -- Mike

Re: [digitalradio] ALE400 testing

2009-09-28 Thread mikea
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 01:04:01PM -0600, John Bradley wrote: using the selective call function under Auxillary Functions, enter my call (VE5MU) on your station list, and sue selective call to connect. Wow! I hadn't realized that Canada was so litigious. Thanks, John. I learned something

Re: [digitalradio] Re: An open letter: W1AW and 80m psk31 interference

2009-09-25 Thread mikea
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 04:24:37PM -0700, Ralph Mowery wrote: --- On Thu, 9/24/09, theophilusofgenoa twst...@windstream.net wrote: From: theophilusofgenoa twst...@windstream.net Subject: [digitalradio] Re: An open letter: W1AW and 80m psk31 interference To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com

Re: [digitalradio] Come Here Watson

2009-09-21 Thread mikea
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:01:21AM -0400, David Struebel wrote: I think you have it mixed up Watson was associated with Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone not Thomas Edison. Quite right. I blame the pain pills. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: [digitalradio] Come Here Watson

2009-09-19 Thread mikea
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 09:01:51AM -0500, chas wrote: Andrew O'Brien wrote: Message ID: NDTTDN5FRWGW Date: 2009/09/19 13:11 From: KI4MTB To: K3UK Source: KI4MTB Subject: //WL2K Test Test from KI4MTB http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr002.html Alexander Graham Bell's

Re: [digitalradio] Anybody On Tonight?

2009-09-16 Thread mikea
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:42:10PM -0500, r_lwesterfield wrote: Where is everybody hanging out? I was on 20m BPSK31, having a nice chat with KE5AAO/MM, captain of the Gulf Service, near Cabinda, W Africa, off the coast of Angola. Condx were a bit rough, but that's a long haul for 40 watts. --

Re: [digitalradio] Need help with Rigblaster Plus and FT100

2009-08-31 Thread mikea
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:39:29AM -, ke4qcm wrote: Hello All, I have a FT-100 and Rigblaster Plus-I can get the radio to key up but there is no modulation/RF power/No signal being sent out, can anyone help with this please? (I have the special Yaesu cable (microphone jack on FT100 to back

[digitalradio] Yaesu FT-450: CAT problems with MixW and HRD

2009-08-04 Thread mikea
I traded another ham in the area my Yaesu FT-857D for a 9-month-old Yaesu FT-450 with the built-in autotuner. I like it very well, except that I have not been able to get the FT-450 to talk with my PC using either a serial cable straight to the PC or a known-good Radio Shack USB-Serial converter.

Re: [digitalradio] Update on ham radio confiscation in Palmdale

2009-07-17 Thread mikea
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:07:02PM -0700, D.G. wrote: Update on ham radio confiscation in Palmdale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G0fskKSfMA C'mon. That's not an update, OM, and it's absolutely content-free. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Use the *$%#ing RS ID!/QST article

2009-07-15 Thread mikea
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 08:15:15PM +0200, Simon (HB9DRV) wrote: Just wait for HRD 6.0 with SDR console support :) SDR console support as in HRD 6.0 will drive my RFSpace SDR-IQ, display and demodulate spectrum from it? Or in some other sense? Either way, Thanks Very Much, yet again, for HRD

Re: [digitalradio] Fw: ARLB027 W1AW to add new digital modes to its transmitting schedule

2009-07-14 Thread mikea
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 01:00:11PM -0700, Sholto Fisher wrote: I wonder when how they surveyed the W1AW listeners? Perhaps I missed the opportunity to respond? Did anyone here respond to their survey? Survey? I certainly wasn't aware of one. I think I'd have remembered if it had been in, or

Re: [digitalradio] 2 Meter FM Digital Modes

2009-07-14 Thread mikea
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 09:20:30PM -, Phil Williams wrote: Is there anyone out there who is active in using digital modes on 2 meters? I would be especially interested in experiences with digital modes such as MFSK and DominoEX. There has been a number of presentations on this

Re: [digitalradio] Need help adjusting sound levels.

2009-07-13 Thread mikea
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:42:10PM -, Ralph Lambert wrote: This is my first post on the digitalradio group so play nice (please). [:)] I have a couple of questions that I need clarification on. Also I need some help related to the questions. When I was first started learning about

Re: [digitalradio] Double Entries on Waterfall

2009-07-13 Thread mikea
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 07:08:36PM -, Ralph Lambert wrote: Why do I sometimes see double entries for the same call sign in the waterfall. Is this some one working split? It seems like it is a duplex issue or am I way off the boat on this one? What program are you running, Ralph? MixW?

Re: [digitalradio] DM 780 Drift

2009-07-12 Thread mikea
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:34:19PM -, ac0mj wrote: Good Morning to the group, I have a question about the drift in Digital Master 780. I am sending out CQs in RTTY this morning on 20m and noticed as on other modes in the past that the signal I send drifts to the right slightly over

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

2009-07-11 Thread mikea
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 06:36:57AM -0400, Cortland Richmond wrote: Also see the court decision at http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/kw6ww/misc/Palmdale/ZubarauMinuteOrder.pdf That's very encouraging; I'd love to see the five volumes of administrative record. In fact, I'll host it on my website