Hi Russell, Are there many other PSKmail stations on the air that are not being listed on the mailserver site?
http://pskmail.wikispaces.com/PSKmailservers The only stations for the U.S. that are listed at the moment are: WB5CON KD5WDQ KD4QCL I think it was KD4WDQ that I have triggered a few times when doing a call up of the servers on 10148, but only WB5CON has been strong enough to actually connect to. It seems to take a pretty good signal to make this work well. Do you find that the 250 baud rate works most of the time about as well as the 125 baud rate? Probably less affected by Doppler? But would be more affected by ISI multipsk? Without having an automatically adjustable protocol, all the modes are a compromise much of the time. And the faster modes just can not connect when slower modes would work, even though very slow. But slow is better than zero throughput like we often had with 300 baud packet and why that mode never became usable unless you had a very stable MUF type of path. From what I can tell, a lot of the Pactor 2 and 3 operation is done this way because 100 baud PSK is quite susceptible to ionospheric conditions we often have on HF. 73, Rick, KV9U Russell Blair wrote: > > > Rick, Well I went to find the call of the other station close to you > and it was not on the list today I will keep a lookout for it, I have > seen you connect to Fred (WB5CON) at times, the band has not be too > good but if you would like for me to QSY to another band so you can > connect I would be glad just let me know. My server has been on > 10.148, was using PSK125 but now I'm using PSK250, it beacons avery > 20min starting at the top of the hour. My station antenna is a > Butternut so its not the best. > > Russell NC5O >
