Hi Andy and Jim, Andy, thanks for the review and I concur with your views on the subject. The nice part is that we have choices for each application and these choices are more and more affordable as time passes from a hardware perspective, as well as offering ever increasing features.
Jim, The RSID feature of Fldigi is already implemented in the alpha version of Pskmail and is in fact in test on a few servers with success. This requires the (currently) alpha version of fldigi (3.13AK onwards) which has RSID running in the background while in parallel listening to the currently selected mode. So the operator can either choose to send a postion report/connect in the default mode or have RSID on and connect in a different mode. The server will adjust its timings automatically. These servers are listed as "Receive RSID ON" in the server list of the wiki. As for the change of speed, Pskmail servers already implement an automatic block size adjustment depending on the number of repeats. >From the client, the operator can already, during a session, make an >"on-the-fly" change of mode (even without using RSID for that matter). The >server will switch then to the new mode and continue the exchange. Since we can already control the Fldigi mode from within Pskmail client or server, we are now looking at the next step which will be to measure the quality of the link both ways, and switch modes/sub-mode according to the conditions. But regardless of the above, your point about using RSID for beaconing is of value and will be looked at. Links to the above available on request. Thanks and best regards, John (VK2ETA) --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "jhaynesatalumni" <jhhay...@...> wrote: <snip> > > That makes me wonder about PSKmail, which I haven't tried yet. I > see a message just after yours that someone's server is going to > be running THOR. I wonder if I could be trying all day to connect > to a PSKmail server and failing because I don't know which mode > it is expecting. Is there some provision for using RSID and > beaconing to announce its presence and the mode it expects? >
