Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-08 Thread kd4e
Who will enforce this using what source of funding? The FCC has no such resources in their current budget nor the necessary technical infrastructure. Were this to be implemented it would require a significant budgetary increase from Congress or a transfer of resources within the FCC. One

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-08 Thread Danny Douglas
Lord! Do we have to put up with talk about THAT again. Id almost rather watch Cricket. Jiminey that is. - Original Message - From: N6CRR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:29 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-08 Thread Danny Douglas
I am talking abour baseball not radio hi - Original Message - From: John Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:53 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF De LØRD Yes ! Up

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-08 Thread John Becker
Why not do the same for all rather then just a few? At 08:52 PM 2/8/06, you wrote: The primary concern - that automatic stations will QRM ongoing QSOs - could be monitored by anyone capable of copying CW, assuming compliance with the CW identification requirement. To deal with the hopefully

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-08 Thread KV9U
If we are talking about Pactor III mode, (not sure about P2), it may be very difficult to monitor. Not impossible, but would likely require some special software to decompress the B2F, etc. More than one P3 promoter has pointed this out to ARC I believe as a way to keep others from being able

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-07 Thread Jose Amador
preaching INTERNATIONAL sub-bands, but those folks will never let it happen. - Original Message - From: jgorman01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 9:54 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-07 Thread Dr. Howard S. White
""Ham Antennas Save Lives - Katrina, 2003 San Diego Fires, 911" - Original Message - From: Dave Bernstein To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 6:56 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-06 Thread Dr. Howard S. White
y, February 05, 2006 8:43 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF Those answer my questions. It is NOT cheap, not readily available for meto use in my computer with already owned equipments. Let me know when itis.Danny- Origina

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-06 Thread KV9U
John, Many of us are familiar with the AOR product since it has been around for some time now and is about the only one of its kind for HF. The pros and cons of this technology have been mentioned many times. While it may have good voice quality and almost no background noise, the trade off

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-06 Thread KV9U
Danny, Even if the CW subbands shrink, it does not mean that there will be any shortage of spectrum for CW. From what I have read of the proposals, any narrow mode can always be used in a wider mode subband. Just like you can today. No one loses anything. In fact, it is the exact opposite

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-06 Thread John Becker
exist, how about letting the rest of us in on it. Danny - Original Message - From: John Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 11:04 PM Subject: RE: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF At 09:47 PM 2/5

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-06 Thread Danny Douglas
OK John. I had looked at the ads and read up on that before, and immediately forgot it. The 500 bucks would go a long way toward a new, shiney, taller tower, which mama wont let me buy anyway. Hi. Danny Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-06 Thread Tim Gorman
You need to also check out the ARRL product review on this unit. While the published specs show it operating in a 2.5khz bandwidth, the ARRL measured bandwidth was actually almost 3.25khz for the unit itself. For some reason, which the ARRL did not go into, the noise from the unit above the

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-06 Thread John Bradley
gitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 7:37 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF As long as countries like Canada would redo their regulations andprevent stations from simply moving lower since it is legal to so

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-06 Thread John Becker
Why ID every 5 minute ? At 08:56 PM 2/6/06, you wrote: I have come to agree with you and Howard on this, John. We should replace all of 97.221 with the following 27 words: No automatic station shall transmit on an already-occupied frequency, or without identifying in 15 wpm CW at the beginning

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-06 Thread John Becker
Yes I see this. I could be done very easy with out bringing the link down. At 09:41 PM 2/6/06, you wrote: To facilitate self-policing. The software controlling an automatic station would have no difficulty remembering to do this, and the impact on throughput would be neglible. 73,

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-06 Thread Danny Douglas
: jgorman01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 9:54 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF Believe me there are Canadian and/or Mexican/South Americans signals down around 3590 and 7040. Besides that wasn't

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-05 Thread F.R. Ashley
. It may be technically feasible to do everything WinLink, the ARRL and others may want to do by allowing more spectrum to be allocated to these services, but by doing so is the resulting environment still Amateur Radio? This question, to me, is what it all boils down to. I think the

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-05 Thread jivey
Message - From: N6CRR To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 2:49 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF However, unless Part 97.1 is changed as to the purpose of Amateur radio, enhancement of the radio

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-05 Thread KV9U
Steve, It is not just emergency traffic, but HW traffic, important informational traffic, e-mail from distant points, etc. It can sometimes include systems such as Winlink 2000, but for the most part it will not, since they have two things that greatly changes the calculus compared to the

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-05 Thread John Becker
It's time to change the subject to reflect what you are now talking about. It has moved from the ARRL proposal to an anti traffic. Please remember that before email ham's had been doing the same thing for years. John, W0JAB Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-05 Thread KV9U
I think I can answer some of your questions. The ARRL definitely has taken the issue of having some kind of workable network for emergency to heart. At least the past president did. After doing a test to demonstrate how effective amateur radio networking is, we were unable to deliver messages

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-05 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
KV9U Wrote: What I do see is the restricting of bandwidths to ~3 or so KHz and that will make high speed digital protocols much more difficult since you can not ignore the science behind it. [...snip...] the new proposals do not address my biggest concern of finally being able to intermix

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-05 Thread John Becker
At 09:47 PM 2/5/06, Peter Viscarola wrote: Today, I agree that it'd be really tough to do digital voice in 3KHz. Peter, Please get your facts right. I and others have been using digital voice on the HF bands for the last 3 or 4 years in less the 2.5Kc. Even from to mobile. John, W0JAB

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-05 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
At 09:47 PM 2/5/06, Peter Viscarola wrote: Today, I agree that it'd be really tough to do digital voice in 3KHz. Peter, Please get your facts right. I and others have been using digital voice on the HF bands for the last 3 or 4 years in less the 2.5Kc. Even from to mobile. Clever retort,

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-05 Thread John Becker
At 10:13 PM 2/5/06, you wrote: Clever retort, but not very elucidating. Obviously I need educating. Please say more. A pointer to a paper, something... de K1PGV try this page for the AOR digital modem at that most on digital voice are using. http://www.aorusa.com/ard9800.html scroll to the

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-05 Thread Danny Douglas
I think most members are not going to be all that upset with what is in effect a shrinking of the CW exclusive subbands (although they could be used for other narrow band modes such as PSK31 and maybe some others that have not been invented yet to fit in that size of bandwidth), a shrinking of the

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-05 Thread Danny Douglas
05, 2006 11:04 PM Subject: RE: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF At 09:47 PM 2/5/06, Peter Viscarola wrote: Today, I agree that it'd be really tough to do digital voice in 3KHz. Peter, Please get your facts right. I and others have been using digital

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-05 Thread Danny Douglas
11:30 PM Subject: RE: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF At 11:13 PM 2/5/06, Peter G. Viscarola wrote: At 09:47 PM 2/5/06, Peter Viscarola wrote: Today, I agree that it'd be really tough to do digital voice in 3KHz. Peter, Please get your facts

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-04 Thread Dr. Howard S. White
03, 2006 4:56 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF There is nothing holding back such experimentation here in the U.S.For one thing, you don't even need to test this on HF first. If it ever proved to be successful on VHF/UHF in a narrow

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-04 Thread Arthur J. Lekstutis
Hi, I've been an engineer for a long time, but I'm new to ham radio. Where exactly is this limitation defined by the FCC in the US? What document (and maybe section) defines the limitation of 300 baud regardless of the bandwidth? Also: are you saying that the FCC allows us to transmit

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-04 Thread Michael Keane K1MK
At 09:33 AM 2/4/06, jgorman01 wrote: 1. I don't know why you say US hams cannot experiment on HF unless our regs are changed. We currently have minimal bandwidth regulations. Someone is certainly welcome to correct me, but I don't know of any HF modem that tries to use 2 tones at 300 baud or

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-04 Thread Mark Miller
Keep in mind there is no regulatory baud rate limit for digital voice or digital SSTV. Any emission designators with a second symbol of 1 or 2, and a third symbol of E or C are considered Phone/Image respectively. There are no baud limits for these emissions. The baud limits are for emission

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-04 Thread Dr. Howard S. White
ished""Ham Antennas Save Lives - Katrina, 2003 San Diego Fires, 911" - Original Message - From: Arthur J. Lekstutis To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 8:25 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes b

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-03 Thread Dr. Howard S. White
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 8:39 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF I am assuming your comments were meant to be applicable to the HFbands since there is nothing to stop hams from doing it on

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-03 Thread list email filter
Gentlemen, Like many of the members of this forum, I've been following this thread with a great deal of interest. Please allow me to (perhaps playing devil's advocate) ask a simple question. I understand the propagation and fading issues which are unique to HF, but from an experimental point of

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL proposal removes baud rate limitations on HF

2006-02-03 Thread KV9U
There is nothing holding back such experimentation here in the U.S. For one thing, you don't even need to test this on HF first. If it ever proved to be successful on VHF/UHF in a narrow bandwidth format, then it could be adopted for HF use as well. Just wishing something technical to happen