Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
Dave Bernstein wrote: > the hidden transmitter effect is a myth, Have you already programmed a cyberionosphere responding to your wishes? C'mon! Be realistic. Jose, CO2JA __ V Conferencia Internacional de Energía Renovable, Ahorro de Energía y Educa

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-26 Thread Darrel Smith
Using Per's Live-CD it is possible to run pskmail without affecting your MS machine and you get a chance to enjoy the one of the recent Linux Distros. Maybe after trying the disk you will think about dumping MS altogether. Darrel VE7CUS PSKmail: ultra narrow bandwidth (with current protoc

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-26 Thread kv9u
There is a fairly significant difference between PSKmail and Winlink2000. Assuming that an individual even supports the concept of internet connections via radio, it would be nearly impossible to substitute one system for the other and have a similar outcome. PSKmail: ultra narrow bandwidth (wi

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-26 Thread Mark Miller
The root cause of the complaints can be traced to the way that Pactor III was introduced to the amateur bands. Most hams today consider the appropriate bandwidth of a signal in the RTTY/Data subbands to be 500 Hz. Wider bandwidth modes have been tolerated, but they typically are limited to on

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-26 Thread John Becker
At 11:42 PM 3/25/2007 Dave, AA6YQ wrote: Personally, I'd give them a 3 KHz segment on 20m, Easy, Dave your hatred is showing once again. But in truth this really would be like giving the PSK guys point three KC of the band. Either way it just ain't going to work and Ray Charles could see

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-26 Thread Danny Douglas
nday, March 25, 2007 10:15 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting > Dave,

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-26 Thread John Becker
At 03:23 AM 3/26/2007, you wrote in part: Sorry now I am confused by this labels. > RV internet traffic

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-26 Thread Walt DuBose
Dave, In the ARRL's defense, when they looked at WinLink at their Board Meeting, there was nothing else on the technology front that could do what WinLink was doing. And until PSKMail came out, there WAS NOTHING to equal WinLink. So if everyone "hates" WinLink, why don't we see hundreds of PSK

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-26 Thread Roger J. Buffington
Bill Vodall WA7NWP wrote: > > > There was no detection available when the rules were implemented > > (1995?). That is the reason for the automatic areas. It was > > primarily intended for fully automatic stations, such as the > > Winlink system (perhaps the is still true for the NTS/D system > > wh

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-26 Thread Roger J. Buffington
Bill Vodall WA7NWP wrote: > > This would still be a good solution. 1/3 the band for narrow museum > modes. 1/3 for voice modes and 1/3 for modern progressive modes with > no rules or bandwidth limits and let technology rule. > > 73 Bill - WA7NWP I am confused. What is a "narrow museum mode?"

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-25 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
> There was no detection available when the rules were implemented > (1995?). That is the reason for the automatic areas. It was primarily > intended for fully automatic stations, such as the Winlink system > (perhaps the is still true for the NTS/D system which continues to use > the old Winli

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-25 Thread kd4e
> Each time a WinLink PMBO transmits on a frequency that's already > in use, its operator is violating §97.101. The interference is not > malicious, but it is clearly willful. We need to ask the FCC for more aggressive enforcement. > An announcement from the ARRL stating that they will no

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-25 Thread kv9u
There was no detection available when the rules were implemented (1995?). That is the reason for the automatic areas. It was primarily intended for fully automatic stations, such as the Winlink system (perhaps the is still true for the NTS/D system which continues to use the old Winlink softwar

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-25 Thread Danny Douglas
/DXandTalk - Original Message - From: "kv9u" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 10:03 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting > Leigh, > > Within the automatic sub bands, they would not have to

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-25 Thread kv9u
Leigh, Within the automatic sub bands, they would not have to have any detection and would still be legal. When the rules were drawn up, the technology had not been invented to have busy frequency detection, at least not for amateur radio. But that all changed a couple years ago when Rick, KN6

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-25 Thread kv9u
If this is true, wouldn't it be a major reversal from past FCC recommendations? My understanding was that some time back (decade or so) the FCC wanted to regulate by bandwidth, rather than mode, and the ARRL strongly opposed it at that time and the idea was dropped. 73, Rick, KV9U John Cha

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-25 Thread John Champa
Dave, Again, these are all good points, and I will forward them onto my Director. However, I don't think there are any satisfactory answers to the issues. A the bottom of all this is my suspicions that the FCC really does NOT back the idea of reg by BW. 73, John K8OCL Original Message Follo

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-24 Thread John Champa
com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:15:01 -0700 I don't believe anyone with the power to change the system is 'working on the problem'. The honest fact is that they believe the HF portion of the Winlin

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-24 Thread Leigh L Klotz, Jr.
Well, then it's true. They don't care about the law. Leigh/WA5ZNU On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 5:49 pm, kv9u wrote: > The discussion of automatic signal detection and not transmitting on a > busy frequency has been a major item of discussion in the past day on > one of the Winlink 2000 groups and the impre

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-24 Thread list email filter
I don't believe anyone with the power to change the system is 'working on the problem'. The honest fact is that they believe the HF portion of the Winlink 2000 PMBO would cease to function if they implemented frequency in use signal detection, and a process to avoid the hidden transmitter issu

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-24 Thread Danny Douglas
card. moderator [EMAIL PROTECTED] moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DXandTalk - Original Message - From: "kv9u" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 8:48 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Di

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-24 Thread kv9u
The discussion of automatic signal detection and not transmitting on a busy frequency has been a major item of discussion in the past day on one of the Winlink 2000 groups and the impression that I got from the main spokesperson/owner was that if they had to follow busy detection rules, Winlink

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-24 Thread Leigh L Klotz, Jr.
I join the voices of the many who call for the release of source code for this busy detection and any patents under royalty-free license. If SCAMP's busy detector, for example, were to be released now, it would show goodwill, and would also spur innovation. Closed and unreleased, it fuels con

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-24 Thread John Champa
know anyway (HI). 73, John K8OCL Original Message Follows From: "John Champa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting Date: Sat, 24 M

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting

2007-03-24 Thread John Champa
Dave, Just FYI, here is the response I got back to your points... I don't necessary agree with the response, but Jim is closer to the situation than I am so here goes... Dave's No. 1: Obviously, as he knows, Chris Imlay is a paid employee. He puts in more time than his pay demands, but he is p

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting Recommendation

2007-03-24 Thread John Champa
Dave, You make several excellent points! OK...Chris isn't perfect ($%#@). Plus, the recent "alternative" ARRL proposal causes me some concern. For example, might we not want some digital mode above 3 kHz someday? How about one spot on just a few bands where up to 6 kHz is permitted? Why take

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting Recommendation

2007-03-23 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Does the ARRL post, and seek comment, when they plan on seeking new rules? I assume that posting their proposals for a 30 day comment period would help spot heir errors. Andy K3UK On 3/23/07, John Champa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dave, 1. Not the attorney, silly! I had to pay my attorney w

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Report of the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Dissenting Recommendation

2007-03-23 Thread John Champa
Dave, 1. Not the attorney, silly! I had to pay my attorney when I was forced to take legal action against other Radio Amateurs, but it was my unpaid volunteer efforts he was defending. Are we in an adult conversation here, or what? 2. The Board (remember, those unpaid volunteers?) did seek bro