RE: [digitalradio] Re: Best Mode for QRP?

2006-07-25 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
must be tested against a standard. Walt/K5YFW -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:34 AM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: Best Mode for QRP? It seems that we have been using the te

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Best Mode for QRP?

2006-07-25 Thread KV9U
It seems that we have been using the terms robust and robustness for a few years. I know that SCS uses this terminology for their Pactor 2 and 3 systems. Perhaps we picked it up from their advertising? It could come from other sources such as G4HPE's digital mode comparison where he uses the t

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Best Mode for QRP?

2006-07-25 Thread Chuck Mayfield
At 08:59 AM 7/25/2006, you wrote: >Anyway where did that word [robustness] come from and when was it frist to >used? Robust Insensitivity of a process output to the variation of the process inputs. Robust Process A robust process is one that is operating at 6 sigma and is therefore resistant t

[digitalradio] Re: Best Mode for QRP?

2006-07-25 Thread Rusty Gate
Thanks Rick, Sorry if it sounded a bit tongue-in-cheek was just about to take off for cooper county for the weekend. Really the reason that I ask is the in my 27 years in broadcasting and 2 way radio repair the word robustness or in any form was never used. This must be a new one. But then I still

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Best Mode for QRP?

2006-07-22 Thread kd4e
> jhaynesatalumni wrote: > A friend has a little software-defined radio the size of a > few postage stamps - it is a crystal-controlled direct > conversion receiver that uses both channels of the sound > card for I and Q demodulation to suppress the unwanted > sideband. It is the size of a few po

[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: Best Mode for QRP?

2006-07-20 Thread Eli
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, KV9U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> By the way, we do not have "channels" on amateur radio except for the 60 > meter band so I think you would be far better off to have some what to > see the signals on a screen or scope like we used to in the "old > days":) >