[digitalradio] Feld-Hell Club Sprint 1500 - 1700Z

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Feld-Hell Club Sprint Rules: Date: The third Saturday of every month, from 1500 - 1700Z Open to:Any licensed amateur and SWL participants Mode: Feld-Hell (any flavor) Bands: 160 through 10 meters. No WARC bands Power: Limited to 100 watts Exchange: Feld-Hell Club members

[digitalradio] Re: Best digital modes for portable QRP

2007-09-15 Thread expeditionradio
Hi Mike, There are several types of Best :) Best power-efficient for QRP texting: Olivia 500/16. More QSOs on 20 meters when the band is open: PSK31. More likely to get a message through, any time: ALE. Bonnie KQ6XA QRP Other that PSK31, which digital modes are best suited for this type of

Re: [digitalradio] Re: So there I was -

2007-09-15 Thread Steinar Aanesland
Hi, If this is such a great mode, I wonder why so many call it a pactor pest or a plague. Maybe the answer is on this website: http://www.digipan.net/ Have a nice day. 73 de LA5VNA Steinar Demetre SV1UY skrev: --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com mailto:digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com,

[digitalradio] Re: So there I was -

2007-09-15 Thread Demetre SV1UY
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Steinar Aanesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If this is such a great mode, I wonder why so many call it a pactor pest or a plague. Maybe the answer is on this website: http://www.digipan.net/ Have a nice day. 73 de LA5VNA Steinar Hi Steinar,

Re: [digitalradio] What's so great about MT63

2007-09-15 Thread Simon Brown
FWIW Pavel Jalocha's code is *very* easy to use, it took me just a couple of hours to get it running in DM780. It will be interesting to run a few QSO's next week - maybe even USA on 20m - who knows? Now back to the coding... Simon Brown, HB9DRV - Original Message - From: Andrew

[digitalradio] Re: Best digital modes for portable QRP

2007-09-15 Thread Vojtech Bubnik
I'm very much a newcomer to digital modes, so please pardon this question. I'm interested in designing a QRP rig that uses digital modes for portable operation in the field, much like the KX-1 and ATS do for CW. Other that PSK31, which digital modes are best suited for this type of

[digitalradio] Re: The decline of Olivia and DominoEX

2007-09-15 Thread Vojtech Bubnik
Hello Patrick. Thanks for your explanation. Do I understand your S/N figures well? Let's say I am using a 100 watts transceiver. If transmitting * MT63 à 10 bauds: - 5 dB and 100 wpm, 1000 Hz bandwidth, crest factor 0.1 then I will be actually able to send energy equivalent only to 10 watts

Re: [digitalradio] Re: So there I was -

2007-09-15 Thread Rick
All good points, Demetre, While Pactor modes can not go as fast as the 8PSK2400 modes, I suspect that it does compete well with those modes in real world HF conditions when in the +5 to +20 dB S/N range. From everything I have been able to find, none of the $5000 ALE modems can operate much

Re: [digitalradio] Re: The decline of Olivia and DominoEX

2007-09-15 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Vojtech, This problem of crest factor and linearity exist too with the Video ID (the one you see appear on the waterfall). If I send Contesta 16-50, due to the high number of carriers (CMT-Hell) I am going to have a crest factor equal to 1/(square root of n) so very small, so the mean

[digitalradio] Re: So there I was -

2007-09-15 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are very correct that Clover II was not a very good mode, especially considering the price, since it was only a bit faster than Pactor I and perhaps similar in ability to operate in weak signals. Yet I have one friend

[digitalradio] Re: So there I was -

2007-09-15 Thread Demetre SV1UY
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All good points, Demetre, [snip] Thank you for the information on RFSM2400, as many of us suspected that it would require a very good signal to work well. Once you reach a threshold of adequate S/N, it probably works as

Re: [digitalradio] Re: So there I was -

2007-09-15 Thread Steinar Aanesland
Demetre, the problem is not the bandwidth, but as Skip Teller, KH6TY try to point out: The number of times PACTOR stations override PSK31, PSK63, or CW communications is so great that the probability is that they seldom, if ever, listen first in their passion to use the ham bands as an

[digitalradio] Re: So there I was -

2007-09-15 Thread Demetre SV1UY
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Steinar Aanesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Demetre, the problem is not the bandwidth, but as Skip Teller, KH6TY try to point out: The number of times PACTOR stations override PSK31, PSK63, or CW communications is so great that the probability is that

[digitalradio] Re: Best digital modes for portable QRP

2007-09-15 Thread Brian A
CW. No computer needed. Also when you're operating QRP you need a large number of potential stations to work. I really pitty the portable QRP station with a budipole antenna trying to work the small handfull of stations he might hear on an oddball digital mode. You might just as well leave the

[digitalradio] Re: Best digital modes for portable QRP

2007-09-15 Thread Demetre SV1UY
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Brian A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CW. No computer needed. Also when you're operating QRP you need a large number of potential stations to work. I really pitty the portable QRP station with a budipole antenna trying to work the small handfull of

[digitalradio] 14077 beta testing today

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew O'Brien
I will be on 14077 (dial) on and off today testing various digital mode applications, Dominoex, PSk125, MT63, etc, -- Andy K3UK www.obriensweb.com (QSL via N2RJ)

[digitalradio] Re: 14077 beta testing today

2007-09-15 Thread Jerry W
Andy, Heard some digital tones around 14077 between 1845 to 1900 UTC, but signals was not strong enough to decode. Sounded like Throb or DominoEX? Jerry - K0HZI --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be on 14077 (dial) on and off today testing

Re: [digitalradio] 14077 beta testing today

2007-09-15 Thread ktnjoepark
I will be monitoring with MT63 Joe WB6AGR ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

[digitalradio] Rock star on Olivia

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew O'Brien
You never know who you are going to meet. you will find a guy named VITO ALBANO palying drums. He took my plasce when I quit the band in 1968 for college down here. We wer already -The studio, working on Tighhter, Tighter hat never got released, when y tticks over to VITo and taught him the riffs

[digitalradio] sstvpal

2007-09-15 Thread David Michael Gaytko // WD4KPD
looking for a help file for VK4AES sstvpal + 17nov02. david/wd4kpd

[digitalradio] QRV MT63

2007-09-15 Thread Tony
All: Looking for MT63 contacts this weekend -- QRV 14109.5. Tony, K2MO

[digitalradio] Re: So there I was -

2007-09-15 Thread Dave Bernstein
Since Pactor 3 can't be decoded with soundcard software and the SCS decoder is relatively expensive, most hams can't decode Pactor 3 messages. Thus when QRM'd by an unattended Pactor 3 station, most hams can't determine the offending callsign and so can't initiate an appropriate action.

Re: [digitalradio] Re: So there I was -

2007-09-15 Thread Rick
The only mode I have ever used that comes close to the feel of Clover II, is the new ALE FAE mode. Currently, it is a non-standard form of ALE and only available on Multipsk. But after you make the connection, you don't have to switch back and forth. I did not have good luck with the mode

Re: [digitalradio] Re: So there I was -

2007-09-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
Hi all, I would like to add my two cents. Demetre SV1UY wrote: Well it all depends on what is an amateur mode. Is it a mode which is free of charge? I wish I also had a free of charge radio and computer, but this is not possible unfortunatelly. Something that is NEVER argued, but is very

Re: [digitalradio] QRV MT63

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew O'Brien
I've been avoiding 109.5 , left it alone for th ALE folks. Drop down to 14077. K3UK On 9/15/07, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All: Looking for MT63 contacts this weekend -- QRV 14109.5. Tony, K2MO -- Andy K3UK www.obriensweb.com (QSL via N2RJ)

Re: [digitalradio] QRV MT63

2007-09-15 Thread ktnjoepark
I will be monitoring 14,077.5 tomorrow. Today the only thing I heard was a noise that sounded like someone playing a flute badly. Joe WB6AGR Modesto Ca ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

[digitalradio] Pactor modes vs. sound card modes

2007-09-15 Thread Rick
The reason that the Winlink2000 owners do not want busy frequency detect is that they invented a particularly effective version of such a mode and found that they would have extreme difficulty finding a wide enough bandwidth to operate. The signal detection circuit would be reset to standby

Re: [digitalradio] QRV MT63

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew O'Brien
That was my daughter. On 9/15/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be monitoring 14,077.5 tomorrow. Today the only thing I heard was a noise that sounded like someone playing a flute badly. Joe WB6AGR Modesto Ca -- See what's new at

Re: [digitalradio] Re: So there I was -

2007-09-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
The same happens with pactor, keyboard mode (also on packet). You type, the message accumulates in the buffer, until you press the ENTER key, or exceed the buffer set size. Jose, CO2JA Rick wrote: The only mode I have ever used that comes close to the feel of Clover II, is the new ALE FAE

Re: [digitalradio] Re: So there I was -

2007-09-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
Roger J. Buffington wrote: Demetre SV1UY wrote: First off PACTOR 3 supports DCD control so it can listen before it transmits. Now maybe the Winlink people have a good reason to have their automatic MBOS not support the DCD control, but the human operator that calls an automatic MBO

Re: [digitalradio] QRV MT63

2007-09-15 Thread ktnjoepark
Sorry ! ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com