[digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread expeditionradio
Bob N4HY wrote: I recently had a general manager of a large amateur radio organization tell me that if I made it possible to communicate through BPL or in any way mitigated BPL through DSP techniques, I would begin to sing soprano and the GM did not mean falsetto. Hi Bob, That sort of

[digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread jgorman01
The general manager of that organization was not wrong! This discussion is mixing apples and oranges as to what BPL interferes with. Digital techniques can not eliminate the interference at RF that BPL introduces. As I have mentioned before, don't forget the RADIO side of things when advocating

Re: [digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread kd4e
Please don't treat the radio part of these systems as a simple black box that replaces an ethernet wire! Please do the homework required to understand what happens in your radio at RF both on transmit and receive. In other words, do a little RF engineering in addition to the baseband and

[digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread jgorman01
Bonnie, Your remarks about this person, and I don't know who it is, are not very convincing. Your award winning design apparently had to do with co-channel interference. This is not the same as on-channel interference that increases the total noise level, which is what BPL interference is.

[digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread jgorman01
I may be wrong but I beleive your theory doesn't assume that the RF energy at your reciever's antenna is not additive. In other words, the signal from the transmitter you want to hear and the interfering signal do not add together. You can only discern the strongest signal. An example is, that

Re: [digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread Jose A. Amador
kd4e wrote: (text snipped) As you noted, if we boost the power level of the transmission we enhance the probability of overcoming the BPL QRM/QRN, but we do so at the price of increased cost and added energy -- which may be a precious commodity in an emergency deployment. We also risk

Re: [digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread list email filter
not_so_tongue_in_cheek If I am 800 miles away, outside the local disaster and power outage area, and could have provided assistance, but can't hear you through my local BPL QRM, or have given up HF communications all together as the newly required digital BPL busting technologies are too

Re: [digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread kd4e
I may be wrong but I beleive your theory doesn't assume that the RF energy at your reciever's antenna is not additive. In other words, the signal from the transmitter you want to hear and the interfering signal do not add together. You can only discern the strongest signal. An example is,

Re: [digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread Jose A. Amador
jgorman01 wrote: Bonnie, Your remarks about this person, and I don't know who it is, are not very convincing. Your award winning design apparently had to do with co-channel interference. This is not the same as on-channel interference that increases the total noise level, which is what

Re: [digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread Jose A. Amador
Certainly. I cannot argue that. I was just joking about what would happen in the affected zone. That's why I emphazised tongue in cheek. I haved NOT been in favor of BPL either, power lines are too leaky, but seems it is something we will have to live with. It is a fat source of revenues for

Re: [digitalradio] Armstrong 'got Moon quote right'

2006-10-03 Thread Bill Turner
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:52:42 -0400, Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Armstrong 'got Moon quote right' REPLY FOLLOWS Boys and girls, you have just seen a prime example of historical revisionism. Usually it's done with more subtlety, but

Re: [digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread Robert McGwier
list email filter wrote: not_so_tongue_in_cheek If I am 800 miles away, outside the local disaster and power outage area, and could have provided assistance, but can't hear you through my local BPL QRM, or have given up HF communications all together as the newly required digital BPL

Re: [digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread Robert McGwier
jgorman01 wrote: I may be wrong but I beleive your theory doesn't assume that the RF energy at your reciever's antenna is not additive. In other words, the signal from the transmitter you want to hear and the interfering signal do not add together. You can only discern the strongest signal.

Re: [digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread John Champa
The arguments here are understood. For example, I often try very hard to avoid describing an 802.11g Access Point (AP) as a Ethernet Hub without the wires. RF is not that simple. However, I am confident, as Dr. Bob is, that a digital solution to BPL is within our reach. 73, John - K8OCL

Re: [digitalradio] Armstrong 'got Moon quote right'

2006-10-03 Thread Robert McGwier
Bill Turner wrote: ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:52:42 -0400, Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Armstrong 'got Moon quote right' REPLY FOLLOWS Boys and girls, you have just seen a prime example of historical revisionism. Usually

[digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread expeditionradio
Jim WA0LYK wrote: Bonnie, your award winning design apparently had to do with co-channel interference. This is not the same as on-channel interference that increases the total noise level, which is what BPL interference is. On-channel interference requires different techniques to

[digitalradio] Concerning Signal Detection

2006-10-03 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
My uncle, Charles Sumner Williams (author of Introduction to the Optical Transfer Function), who taught radio at Scott Field during WWII and retired from TI said that the problem with computer signal detection (we were discussing CW) was trying to duplicate with a computer what the human brain

[digitalradio] Digital voice with K0PFX

2006-10-03 Thread Tony
All: Copied K0PFX this afternoon on 20 meter digital voice using WinDRM. Took a while to get the files in order, but all is working thanks to Mel. I have the reocrding if anyone would like to hear it. 73 Tony KT2Q Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other

[digitalradio] Mysterious Radio Hiss Blamed on Space Weather

2006-10-03 Thread Jerry W
From SPACE.com Mysterious Radio Hiss Blamed on Space Weather, Full story at: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061003_science_tuesday.html Jerry - K0HZI Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector :

[digitalradio] Re: HF Digital Voice

2006-10-03 Thread Jerry W
Does Digital Voice files work the same as the image files that are sent on 14.233? In other words one needs a good solid signal in order to copy and decode the Digital Voice files? The way 20 meters has been at my QTH most of the summer, I would still be trying to decode the first Digital Voice

Re: [digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread KV9U
Jerry, Probably the better way to look at it is that co-channel interference is on the same channel, and adjacent channel interference is immediately next to the signal you want. We have some pretty good interference fighting technology in today's amateur equipment. Although some are claiming

Re: [digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread Jose A. Amador
jgorman01 wrote: I may be wrong but I beleive your theory doesn't assume that the RF energy at your reciever's antenna is not additive. In other words, the signal from the transmitter you want to hear and the interfering signal do not add together. Do you mean that superposition theorem

[digitalradio] TARA PSK Ruble is this weekend - 0000 to 2400 UTC 7 Oct 06

2006-10-03 Thread w7psk
Here is the rules page http://www.n2ty.org/seasons/tara_rumble_rules.html I look forward to seeing some of you. Scotty W7PSK Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/

[digitalradio] Digital Modes: How will the DSTAR vs 10F3 Conflict be resolved?

2006-10-03 Thread kd4e
Any plans for D-STAR 10F3 Conflict Resolution? Alinco uses the 10F3 digital mode, Icom D-Star, they apparently do not intercommunicate. Anyone aware of an adaptive interface between them? Any idea what Kenwood and Yaesu will do? To the degree to which digital voice and digital data via 2/440

[digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread jgorman01
Your basically talking about signals you can hear well, i.e. well beyond the minimum signal to noise ratio's. Also with analog SSB voice the crest factor is very large. That is, one person is just speaking a hard consonant while anothers voice is just fading to nothing. Therefore the power

[digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread jgorman01
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Jose A. Amador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jgorman01 wrote: Bonnie, Your remarks about this person, and I don't know who it is, are not very convincing. Your award winning design apparently had to do with co-channel interference. This is not the

Re: [digitalradio] Digital voice with K0PFX

2006-10-03 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Good work Tony. I would like to hear the recording. What was the SNR? Andy K3UK - Original Message - From: Tony To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:10 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Digital voice with K0PFX All:Copied

[digitalradio] Re: TARA PSK Ruble is this weekend - 0000 to 2400 UTC 7 Oct 06

2006-10-03 Thread Alan Biddle
I can find the exchange rate for the Russian Ruble. What is it for a PSK Ruble? Hi Hi! Alan WA4SCA 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:

[digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread jgorman01
I have done the same thing to calibrate my vfo's. But remember, when you are right on frequency, there is nothing to indicate that there is another signal there. And, I'll be honest, I've never seen my s-meter add the two signals together which would indicate that the powers are being added in

[digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread Chris Jewell
jgorman01 writes: just did this using my RF generator. WWV at 5 Mhz is about 10 over S9. The generator is at about S5 with no antenna connected and the lead just resting on top of the transceiver. When I switch the generator on, the S-meter moves not a bit. You would expect it to

[digitalradio] New Team Joins the Rumble

2006-10-03 Thread ny2u
Howdy! I'd like to shed so good news with you. I've learned today that we have a "NEW" PSK Team that has tossed their hat into the ring for the upcoming TARA "Rumble" on 7th October 2006. This new team is call The Global PSK Net Team and here is their team line up: Eric, K9VICLudek,

Re: [digitalradio] Concerning Signal Detection

2006-10-03 Thread Robert McGwier
DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA wrote: My uncle, Charles Sumner Williams (author of Introduction to the Optical Transfer Function), who taught radio at Scott Field during WWII and retired from TI said that the problem with computer signal detection (we were discussing CW) was trying to

[digitalradio] W1MNK 11-1

2006-10-03 Thread Jon Maguire
1 and 2, I have sent email to my section manager to find a emcomm contact. I'll update when possible. 3. Suppose that during an emergency activation, you find yourself to be the leader of the local emcomm group. To which agency would you report? To whom within the agency would you report? What

[digitalradio] Re: Concerning Signal Detection

2006-10-03 Thread Jon Maguire
My uncle, Charles Sumner Williams (author of Introduction to the Optical Transfer Function), who taught radio at Scott Field during WWII and retired from TI said that the problem with computer signal detection (we were discussing CW) was trying to duplicate with a computer what the human