Re: [digitalradio] SCS PTC with P3 Uses ?

2009-02-24 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
Over the past couple of weeks I have been testing a SCS PTC2 usb modem with a pactor3 license, and have come away amazed and humbled by what this thing can do. Thanks for sharing this John. Since I have only a passing interest in emcomms, how is a SCS PTC2 with P3 for just basic ham

Re: [digitalradio] AX.25 vs Something New

2008-08-07 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
Phil's paper is from many years ago but the reality is that there was no further movement away from the legacy AX.25 equipment toward a new layer, much less toward a completely new protocol. There is some movement... Check out: FX.25 - Forward Error Correction Extension to AX.25 Link

[digitalradio] Shoutcast of PSK31 - 14.070

2008-03-27 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
Has anybody set up a Shoutcast or similar Internet radio feed of a psk radio channel like 14.070? I wonder how the latency and jitter on an TCP/IP audio feed would be tolerated. 73 Bill - WA7NWP

Re: [digitalradio] Re: The sorry state of VHF/UHF Packet

2007-11-30 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
On Nov 29, 2007 11:37 AM, Rud Merriam k5rud@ Which radio? The Kenwood D710.They've supposedly fixed the issues with the D700 and, if true, we have a dual band frequency agile 9k6 and 1200 baud data radio. Unfortunately the current premier packet data application, Airmail 2000, doesn't

Re: [digitalradio] Re: The sorry state of VHF/UHF Packet

2007-11-29 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
My point is that the packet radio cannot prosper if all of our _amateur radio_ applications are closed source. Closed source or open source is a non-issue. What matters is if the software is well supported with good engineering principles.An open source package with no support is far

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Amateur Radio in Disasters/What we really need

2007-05-08 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
Being in Oregon, there is little need for Tornado watchers! However, SHOULD something like that occur, without having to stay by the radio or terminal 24/7, is there a program that allows for or provides ALARMS that are audible to alert a network of Packet stations? APRS can easily to

Re: [digitalradio] ARRL wake up ......

2007-05-01 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
NO ONE wants to hamper experimenting but at the same time no one should want to crush other older modes ... No one wants to crush the older modes -- but they can't block moving to new modes and that's what's happening now. Sadly NO ONE beleves that somehow our fearless leaders in

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL wake up ......

2007-05-01 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
Could you enlighten us on just exactly what modes are being blocked by the current regulations. What bands do these modes operate on? What is the purpose of the blocked modes? That's a big part of the problem with the previous proposal. It created new blocks we don't have today. The

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 Winlink

Re: [digitalradio] legal Mode guidelines

2007-03-18 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
This is from the same guys that want to distroy 6 meters with 200 khz wide signals? Not destroy it - save it... Amateur Radio used to be technology leaders. Today its the last bastion of otherwise obsolete 'museum modes' like AM, CW and ATV while the real world technologies of digital wide

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital via Fldigi Puppy [Was: Falling into the Vista trap]

2007-03-02 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
Does the kernel AX25 packet stack work with Puppy? If so, any how-to pages for setting it up? Thanks, Bill - WA7NWP On 3/2/07, kd4e [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! I already use Puppy Linux for everything, office, Internet, GPS, etc. and now a simple-to-install Ham digital app.

Re: [digitalradio] Re: HF Packet BBS?

2007-01-18 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
Bill, What you have left is noisy HF. So this is the time to try PSKMail. Its only (ONLY???) 200 WPM user throughput but 100% error free and even under the very worst conditions, 25-50 WPM? What is WPM? Bytes per second is a fixed measure. Assuming 5 bytes plus a space that's 6 bytes

Re: [digitalradio] Re: HF Packet BBS?

2007-01-17 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
A couple comments on KV9U's notes... (one is Jose) KV9U wrote: When you are using xNOS aren't you also needing to be using TCP/IP with considerable overhead? From what I have understood, using xNOS on a 1200 baud system is not really practical although at 9600 baud it is OK. The

Re: [digitalradio] Re: External hard drives?

2006-12-29 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
The solution I would propose is to purchase a new drive Could try a Virtual PC disk image on the thumb drive. Then everyting is installed there and it's a simple file to delete when you're done. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx

Re: [digitalradio] Re: USA: No Advanced Digital HF Data Comms

2006-12-02 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
I will also ask the question again: If we had the ability to send high speed digital data on HF, what would we be sending to each other that we don't do now? Anything. Everything. There's no 'technical' reason we don't do everything on HF. Discussion groups like this, pictures,

Re: [digitalradio] New Mode proposal Jamtor Iv

2006-01-20 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
Please feel free to add to the list of helpful features which should be incorporated into Jamtorâ„¢ at some point in the future. How about some real world 21st century RF modes using 9 KHz or 12 KHz data channels? None of those 1980's restrictions using mere 3 KHz. from:

Re: [digitalradio] JNOS and Linux for the digital ham

2005-06-16 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
More in a bit. Right now here's a couple links. But you know it is not getting traction when you go to a NOS group and find that one with 15 members has 11 messages over a four year period of time! and the other with 29 members has 25 messages over a 4 year period of time! The basic JNOS

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Question about HF-email

2005-06-16 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
My picture was using Ham Radio in emergency situations, or in remote locations - ships at sea, mountain tops, jungle settings, etc. Sure, we have Satellite Phone these days. But that's not like sending one email communiqu to a group (of say 20 people). And I figure providing communications,

Re: [digitalradio] Question about HF-email

2005-06-15 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
What I have never understood is why we can not develop a system whereby HF (or for that matter VHF/UHF) stations can gateway into the internet via some basic system that does not itself require a complicated and fragile internet system. It is probably not possible since the routing issues are