Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help

2007-09-06 Thread Per
that HAL is trying hard to recognize. 73 de Per, sm0rwo - Original Message From: Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2007 9:56:19 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help Roberto, I did try re-bo

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help

2007-09-06 Thread Tony
hursday, September 06, 2007 3:32 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help > Hi Tony, i had also this problem. > I have solved rebooting the pc and the same > issue is disappeared. > I don't know what was the problem. > > At this url > http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help

2007-09-06 Thread Roberto IS0GRB
ering storage, networking, digital cameras, and printers. 73 Roberto IS0GRB - Original Message - From: Tony To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:14 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help Dear Per, I downloaded the latest PskMail Live C

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help

2007-09-06 Thread Tony
Dear Per, I downloaded the latest PskMail Live CD and bruned it with an ISO utility. The burn was successful and the program was working fine on my desktop. When I loaded the CD on my Laptop, the installation stopped at "Starting HAL daemon". I waited a few minutes, but it would not continue

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help

2007-09-05 Thread Per
Per, sm0rwo - Original Message From: Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2007 9:27:44 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help Per, Thanks for the reply. I can download the so

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help

2007-09-05 Thread Tony
, K2MO - Original Message - From: "Per" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 4:47 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help > Hi Tony, > > There are two different live cd's available now, > one based upon Mandriva and one on Pu

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help

2007-09-05 Thread Rick
Also, in the help department, is there anyone who has had success in getting an ICOM 756 Pro 2 working through rig control on the fldigi/PSKMail programs? I tried a few months ago when I was using Linux for a while on one of my computers, but now I recall never actually getting this particular

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help

2007-09-05 Thread Per
Hi Tony, There are two different live cd's available now, one based upon Mandriva and one on Puppy, please have a look at the pskmail wiki for further information. Its here: http://pskmail.wikispaces.com 73 de Per, sm0rwo - Original Message From: Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: digitalr

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-04 Thread Robert Thompson
You can run Vista under VMWare (or any other virtualizer/emulator) under Linux, OSX, or anywhere else without violating the Microsoft license. You just can't do so with the cheaper Home Edition. The real drive behind this is actually OSX. A lot of people are starting to use OSX as their main system

RE: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-03 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
> At one time I thought that for compatibility I would be running Linux as > the host OS and then could run Windows Vista as a guest OS. > Yes, EXCEPT the Linux VM software that I've run does a terrible job running Windows. The functionality is bad and the basic drivers are slow. There are a few

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-03 Thread Per
CTED]> To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 3, 2007 6:05:31 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ? I don't have it yet, just the Mandriva based one...and it worked so well with my PC hardware that I already installed it in one partition.

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
I don't have it yet, just the Mandriva based one...and it worked so well with my PC hardware that I already installed it in one partition. That is the way I solved the vanishing configuration problem. Seems that my LiveCD wish list has been already fulfilled on the Puppy version. 73, Jose, C

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Rick
I don't plan on tying up one computer for one mode during an emergency event. We just went through a pretty major disaster situation here in SW Wisconsin in the past week, with the 1000 year rain event. (Back in 1965 we had the 100 year event and we thought that was bad). With the hardened comm

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Jose, the latest Puppy ISO with PSKMAIL does that, gives an option to save to flashdrive , CD, or a partition on the HD. Andy K3UK On 9/2/07, Jose A. Amador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Leigh, > > It seems to me that there is still a catch, and is the need, specially > for "lazy people" (rea

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
Leigh, It seems to me that there is still a catch, and is the need, specially for "lazy people" (read it both as lazy and easy to annoy) to store permanent parameters somewhere, so between reboots (easy to happen in emergency environments at the worst moments) the station does not lose its id

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Leigh L Klotz, Jr.
1. Stick CD into computer 2. Reboot How much simpler can it get? On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 4:19 pm, Rick wrote: > I try to keep in mind that when I am looking at new technology > solutions > that can be used for emergency communications, it has to be as simple > as > possible and is used by many others

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Rick
urse). Puppy boots on most pc's and Mandriva makes better > use of newer hardware so just try one (they are free). > > 73 de Per, sm0rwo > > > > - Original Message > From: Peter G. Viscarola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com >

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Robert Thompson
One reason there isn't a windows version is that PSKMail is leveraging a lot of already available bits of Linux infrastructure. To port it to windows would require either porting most of those pieces to windows yourself (time consuming), using pre-ported bits where possible (flaky, as they were onl

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Per
Viscarola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 11:28:30 PM Subject: RE: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ? This sounds like some interesting stuff to play with... but I've gotta ask: Why are there no PSKMail implementation

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-01 Thread Rick
I am genuinely surprised that there are PSKmail servers here in the U.S. It shows that there is some interest. I can not get Linux OS to work with my equipment at this time, but keep hoping that as it improves, particularly the X11 support for wide resolution monitors, that it will become possi

RE: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-08-31 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
This sounds like some interesting stuff to play with... but I've gotta ask: Why are there no PSKMail implementations that run on Windows? Is it just because "nobody's written one"? de Peter K1PGV

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-08-31 Thread Darrel Smith
Rick, Check here for the list of servers. I have VE7SUN running on 10.148Mhz on the west coast. Darrel On 31-Aug-07, at 8:31 AM, Rick wrote: Are there many PSKmail servers in the U.S. ? I keep hoping for one practical ARQ mode that would be useful for HF emergency communications. In order

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-08-31 Thread Rick
Are there many PSKmail servers in the U.S. ? I keep hoping for one practical ARQ mode that would be useful for HF emergency communications. In order for that to happen it must be something that most hams have access to and use on a regular basis. It seems that we have so many competing modes, e

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-08-31 Thread Per
I have the server on 30 meters only at the moment. I am still trying to get a decent antenna at my new QTH and right now I'm testing a 30 meter dipole. When I get a better antenna I will start scanning again. PI4TUE was always on 30 meters only (scans two frequencies there). As for activity it var

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL : Turning an old PC in to a Linux box?

2007-01-20 Thread Rein Couperus
> > I am interested in trying PSKMAIL but don't want to screw up my PCs > that are using Windows XP. I have an old 500 Hz CPU PC sitting around > doing nothing. What would I need to do to turn this totally in to a > linux computer running PSKMAIL ? > > Andy K3UK > Andy, First step: upgra

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL : Turning an old PC in to a Linux box?

2007-01-20 Thread Chris Danis
On 1/20/07, Andrew O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am interested in trying PSKMAIL but don't want to screw up my PCs > that are using Windows XP. I have an old 500 Hz CPU PC sitting around > doing nothing. What would I need to do to turn this totally in to a > linux computer running PSK

RE: [digitalradio] PSKMail

2007-01-12 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Oops, that produced a 'channel limit exceeded' at SMTP , so it won't arrive. I now copied the wiki archive to a USA mirror for download: http://wwns.com/tlf/pskmail_iso/pskmail_20070112.tgz (9.7 MB) Hope you can access that site...

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail

2007-01-12 Thread Rein Couperus
chricht- > Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > Gesendet: 12.01.07 21:00:47 > An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > Betreff: Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail > > I gzipped the wiki content (9.7 MB) and sent it as attachment to both > addresses.. > > 73, > > Rein PA0R &g

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail

2007-01-12 Thread Rein Couperus
I gzipped the wiki content (9.7 MB) and sent it as attachment to both addresses.. 73, Rein PA0R PS: yes, Fldigi, PSK125 and 10 characters/second incl. arq overhead... with on-the-fly switch to PSK63 (manually for the moment). > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail

2007-01-12 Thread Chuck Mayfield
At 12:13 PM 1/12/2007, DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA wrote: >For some reason I can't get the latest information on PSKMail...actually >I think the pskmail.org URL and some others are being blocked. The last >I info I have is from Rein is dated Aug 2005. > >Am I correct in that PSKMail is now usin

Re: [digitalradio] pskmail

2006-10-05 Thread Per
This one: http://www.crusefalk.se/psklive.htm I have created this live cd specifically for pskmail. 73 de Per, sm0rwo --- David Michael Gaytko // WD4KPD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > which live cd has this program ? > > david/wd4kpd > > __ Do

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Live cd distro

2006-10-04 Thread Rein Couperus
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > Gesendet: 04.10.06 13:38:59 > An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > Betreff: Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Live cd distro Dear Per, > i have tried in this day the live cd for PSKMail and it's working very w

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Live cd distro

2006-10-04 Thread Andrea Borgnino IW0HK
Dear Per,i have tried in this day the live cd for PSKMail and it's working very well on my pc. I also test gMFSK and i'ts a nice and "well done" program. I have tried a lot to connect a PskMail Server but without outcome.. I do monitoring on 10148 khz Usb .. and i dont hear no PSK63 signals, al

RE: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2006-09-19 Thread wa7nwp
> > At the moment I can also see servers connected in Vancouver and Corinth, > Tennessee, but it is unknown what frequencies they are using at the > moment. Any more info available about these servers? Vancouver BC or WA? (Confusing eh?) Thanks Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://

RE: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2006-09-19 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
sound? Walt/K5YFW -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 5:14 AM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [digitalradio] PSKmail OK Walt, of course you are right... It is nice to have an arq mode available also

RE: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2006-09-19 Thread Rein Couperus PA0R
The main Pskmail frequency is 10.148 kHz. In Europe you will find the servers of SM0RWO and PI4TUE there. Mode is PSK63, beacons on xx:00 and xx:03. The servers run 24/24. You may be able to hear the beacon of SM0RWO, who has the best antenna/power combination.. At the moment I can also see serve

RE: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2006-09-19 Thread Rein Couperus PA0R
OK Walt, of course you are right... It is nice to have an arq mode available also for keyboarding. But I would prepare a complete document with the editor before sending it:) The pskmail k-to-k mode has not been tested properly, and should be regarded as experimental. But first tests have shown th

RE: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2006-09-18 Thread John Becker
Where on the band can you find this? 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] PSKmail

2006-09-18 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
ld have strong META statements that they are "research and scientific" pages. Walt/K5YFW -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 2:56 AM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail

RE: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2006-09-18 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
to build modes that were 100% error free if possible so that they could be used in a worst-case scenario. Walt/K5YFW -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 11:58 AM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subje

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2006-09-16 Thread KV9U
Although PSK 31 is a few db better under difficult conditions, I wonder how much of an advantage you would have with ARQ PSK63? If we had an ARQ soundcard mode for MS OS, I would be one of those using it for casual work and for sure for emergency conditions. The "official" emergency HF keyboar

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2006-09-16 Thread Rein Couperus
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > Gesendet: 16.09.06 16:18:45 > An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > Betreff: Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail > > Per, > > I was surprised to find that PSKmail has a keyboard mode. Are you > fin

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2006-09-16 Thread KV9U
Per, I was surprised to find that PSKmail has a keyboard mode. Are you finding many trying this out? And how well do you think this compares to Olivia or MFSK16? There are days that I almost want to switch over to Linux and forego some of my Win XP programs, but then again it would be a huge l

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2006-09-16 Thread Per
Sure, my server is busy as I am typing this. Have a look at http://pskmail.wikispaces.com for a current list of servers. All servers are not available on the wiki, there are a few in the US that is active from time to time. Info abt those is available on the mailing list (see the wiki). 73 de Per,

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail again

2006-03-16 Thread doc
> PSK Mail looks interesting despite the daunting prospect of installing > a Linuk OS. However, my amateur radio set-up involves PC to radio > interfaces that require Windows based virtual serial ports for rig > control. How is rig control achieved with PSKmail? > Andy K3UK Try Puppy Linux as

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail again

2006-03-16 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Thanks Peter. I will try setting up a CD boot disk for linux and PSKmail later this evening and also check hamlib. Andy K3UK On 3/16/06, Per <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Installing linux is easy, just go ahead and if you are > wondering about anything then just ask me. > PSKMail uses hamlib for

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail again

2006-03-16 Thread Per
Installing linux is easy, just go ahead and if you are wondering about anything then just ask me. PSKMail uses hamlib for rig control (their web site is very informative). My IC-706MKIIG is controlled by a USB cable but a standard serial cable is just as good. COM1 is ttyS0, a usb-cable is ttyUSB0

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2006-02-20 Thread Per
It's arq so in some ways it is like a less timing sensitive pactor. I think its a lot better than pactor in many ways. Anyway, it works really well and the link fails rarely. I have a server online on 10.148 kHz and if you can hear it then I can easily add you to the list of users. There is a bea

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2006-02-18 Thread John Becker
Yeah I did read that from the site. In ways sounds a lot like Amtor and Pactor. At 07:38 PM 2/18/06, you wrote: How does PSK-arq work in theory? >PSK63 is a BPSK mode with twice the speed, and twice the >bandwidth of PSK31. To cater for >the 3 dB lo

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew O'Brien
On 2/18/06, John Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Andy.I'll give it a look.Not a big fan of PSK but love the ARQ modes.John, W0JAB  From their web site...       How does PSK-arq work in theory?PSK63 is a BPSK mode with twice the speed, and twice the bandwidth of PSK31. To cater for the

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2006-02-18 Thread John Becker
Thanks Andy. I'll give it a look. Not a big fan of PSK but love the ARQ modes. John, W0JAB At 10:07 AM 2/18/06, you wrote: >For those interested, the URL for PSKMail is > >http://pskmail.wikispaces.com/ > > >-- >Andy K3UK Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2005-08-19 Thread Leigh L Klotz, Jr.
Per, I am very interested in this project and am glad to see it is out now. I am most interested in the internal protocol and would like to see if we can combine it with some other projects to make it into something of incredible utility. On the Windows side of the world, they have PSKCORE.DLL

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2005-08-19 Thread Per
Yes, I do. I've got a server on-line and a few clients also. Im the one to blame if you fail to install it on a Mandrake/Mandriva distro (my humble contribution). I've run it for a week here and I've got a few things to add to that instruvtion (for the server). Bottom line is that it works. There a

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail

2005-08-18 Thread Harv Nelson
Hi Walt, If I can get it working, and if I can find find some folks to to test/play with it, I'll include it on the next edition of the "HamShack Hack".  I plan to start rebuilding that, with the latest Knoppix, around the end of October ... when the first snows start up here.  High tourist s

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