Re: [digitalradio] Any good, free programs for a PK-232?

2008-05-09 Thread Jose A. Amador
Thank you, Mark. That one may work too...but hardly is my favorite. Nevertheless, it is already there. 73, Jose, CO2JA Mark - N8MNI wrote: Windows Hyperterm Mark Crosbie N8MNI London, Ohio USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [digitalradio] USB - RS232 adapter for Vista 64bit?

2008-05-09 Thread Jose A. Amador
Thank you, Rick. A friend and coworker told me that he achieved to make work his Nvidia card with Mandriva. I have not been able so far, using Mandriva Spring 2007. Mine is GeForce FX5200. I downloaded the driver pack, more than 100 MB. I have not been able to see where is the failure. Also,

Re: [digitalradio] Help with frequencies for Digital Voice.

2008-05-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
14236.0 73, Jose, CO2JA Well now that I have this new version of Digital Voice, what frequencies can I find some Digital Voice on, thanks for the help Russell NC5O

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Multiple Digital Modes: Time to get rid of most ?

2008-04-23 Thread Jose A. Amador
I am daring to post my opinion after reading the previous ones on this thread. In general, ARQ modes can insure the delivery of almost 100% correct transfers. FEC can do nearly alike, but since there is no feedback, transfers may get corrupted as SNR drops. ARQ + FEC can achieve a lower

Re: [digitalradio] Multiple Digital Modes: Time to get rid of most ?

2008-04-20 Thread Jose A. Amador
. Jose Angel Amador Fundora Profesor Auxiliar Departamento de Telecomunicaciones Facultad de Ingenieria Electrica, CUJAE Calle 114 #11901 e/ 119 y 127 Marianao 19390, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba Tel: (53 7) 266-3445 Email: amador at electrica.cujae.edu.cu

Re: [digitalradio] Best line of the day

2008-04-13 Thread Jose A. Amador
I agree. Static crashes are a powerful QRN source here too. Guess Olivia would be better, even 8/250 would stand a better chance of good copy. In spite of strong signals, if there is no second chance, it does not matter much how clever Varicode is. It is certainly a big step ahead on quiet

Re: [digitalradio] Re: 30m Usage....

2008-04-13 Thread Jose A. Amador
Where was that? 48 to 54 MHz, or somewhere else? The only old reference I remember, from a 1936 Frank Jones Handbook is that 5 meters was 56 to 60 MHz (double of the ancient 10 meters band, before the 300 kHz snip on its top). I am not really sure of how things evolved from the old 5 meters

Re: [digitalradio] TCVR and frequency stability.

2008-04-05 Thread Jose A. Amador
Gil, TCVR means (T)rans(C)ei(V)e(R). It explicitly says transceiver in the second line of the message body. 73, Jose, CO2JA == rojomn wrote: What IS TCVR and where is it found? There is no reference left in your post.

Re: [digitalradio] Computer OS

2008-03-31 Thread Jose A. Amador
I would advise you to try Puppy Linux and PSKmail Live CD's (baed on Mandriva) and see if any of them suits your expectations. The latest PSKmail CD I have includes Wine and some older windows ham apps that work well. I installed it to my hard drive on a P4 w/ 512 MB RAM. The latest Puppy I

Re: [digitalradio] Computer OS

2008-03-31 Thread Jose A. Amador
Thank you, Darrel. I have not downloaded them, will try to get the images to burn here and give them a test drive. 73, Jose, CO2JA --- Darrel Smith wrote: Jose, I use the emcpup disk http://www.w1hkj.com/emcpup.html by Dave, W1HKJ and ham_pup http://pskmail.wikispaces.com/ . I use

Re: [digitalradio] RTTY question

2008-03-29 Thread Jose A. Amador
Mike Blazek wrote: John Becker, WØJAB wrote: Why do I find so so many RTTY signals up side down on the ham bands. What ever happen to the old standard? Mark is hi space is low. John, W0JAB Hi, John: I think the main reason is pretty much all of the other

Re: [digitalradio] Vista

2008-03-29 Thread Jose A. Amador
Paul L Schmidt, K9PS wrote: Might want to check that one -- I think you'll find it's derived from BSD, not Linux. 73, - ps Ken Meinken wrote: Actually, the Mac OS is based on Linux. Once I was told that XP also took adventage of some BSD code. Jose, CO2JA

Re: [digitalradio] Re: 10 Tips for the PSK31 Digital Mode

2008-03-12 Thread Jose A. Amador
kh6ty wrote: A dual-loop AGC system may help and some high-end transceivers have this. 73, Skip KH6TY Dual loop AGC is a two sided sword. I have come to find better, and not necessarily easier, to have low noise, low gain stages before the filters that will not overload so easily. The

Re: [digitalradio] 10 Tips for the PSK31 Digital Mode

2008-03-12 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rein Couperus wrote: My comments were meant to be a bit provocative He! Well, you knew what you were doing The ONLY point I wanted to make is that if you use a proper filter, matched to the mode, you will have a lot more fun and hear/work many more stations. The tradeoff is that

Re: [digitalradio] Re: RTTY Standard

2008-02-12 Thread Jose A. Amador
Robert Chudek - K0RC wrote: I know the AEA PK-232 used 200 Hz, as well as the Heathkit HK-232, but the Kantronics _KAM_ series all used 170 Hz shift. That was the reason I switched from the AEA to the KAM products. What Kantronics models used 200 Hz shift? 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN

Re: [digitalradio] Re: RTTY Standard

2008-02-12 Thread Jose A. Amador
Jose A. Amador wrote: Kantronics and AEA too. I have a Communications Quarterly issue from the mid 90's somewhere here in which the author modifies A PK-232...forgot to include that its filters for 170 Hz and describes a great improvement for AMTOR...but also becomes almost useless

Re: [digitalradio] Re: RTTY Standard

2008-02-12 Thread Jose A. Amador
Kantronics and AEA too. I have a Communications Quarterly issue from the mid 90's somewhere here in which the author modifies its filters for 170 Hz and describes a great improvement for AMTOR...but also becomes almost useless for 300 baud packet. AM7910 modems have 200 Hz shift. Jose,

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Operating FSK RTTY in a contest ?

2008-02-11 Thread Jose A. Amador
Andy, I use only AFSK lately. I find it easier to net, just click on the waterfall and there you go. One asset of soundcard generated keying is that usually the tones are a bit softer, due to the use of phase continuous keying, which may not be the case with IF generated FSK inside the

Re: [digitalradio] Olivia

2008-02-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
It should be better, because of the Walsh code layer. I have used it for tests among other Olivia modes, but never compared RTTY and 2/250 Olivia. It worked fairly well, but it was just for curiosity sake, more than anything else. It was not a serious, well planned, exhaustive test. 73,

Re: [digitalradio] Sigma Tel audio level

2008-02-05 Thread Jose A. Amador
Dave, Getting only 40 watts out means you still need an audio level 4 dB higher. Going the easy way, can't you tweak some attenuator in your interface? 73, Jose, CO2JA Dave 'Doc' Corio wrote: I recently discovered that my Soundblaster Audigy card was causing some problems to my

Re: [digitalradio] Re: New release (4.7) of MULTIPSK

2008-01-31 Thread Jose A. Amador
Tooner wrote: --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Jose A. Amador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... but what it does and how it does. ... And certainly MultiPSK does its stuff WELL ... as a peek at its specs will show you. How about telling us what that 'stuff' is, as you are more familiar

Re: [digitalradio] Re: New release (4.7) of MULTIPSK

2008-01-30 Thread Jose A. Amador
Tooner wrote: MultiPSK gives an error in Vista 64-bit: Windows - No Disk Exception Processing Message 0xc013 Parameters ... Cancel, Try Again, Continue Selecting either will still pull up the program. Seems to work fine. Not a biggie, but in case someone else is using the same

[digitalradio] FDMDV this afternoon...

2008-01-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
Copied XE1RK very well, SNR between 9 and 12 dB, no interruptions at all. He was in QSO with some W0 I did not hear AT ALL. 73, Jose, CO2JA __ Participe en Universidad 2008. 11 al 15 de febrero del 2008. Palacio de las Convenciones, Ciudad de la

Re: [digitalradio] Setting up FDMDV

2008-01-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
Similar hardware here, set up in a different fashion. Onboard AC97 for mic input and TX output Creative Audigy 2 for RX input and speaker out. Needs a trick to mute the input RX audio using the effects menu. You must mute the line input to the soundcard mix, or you will get the received,

Re: [digitalradio] HAARP and Moon Echo of HAARP received well in South Bend, Indiana 6.7925

2008-01-19 Thread Jose A. Amador
Reviewing what I received here, and comparing with what others have posted, here and in other groups, I had a pretty good documented reception almost at the end. I have a particularly clean and strong echo at 05:58:10, a direct signal with no multipath. HAARP signals at that moment had a

Re: [digitalradio] Re: (was : Trouble at mill RTTY contesters war

2008-01-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
7102.2, center frequency. Certainly, a busy frequency. I cannot tell what mode called on top of me, because, robotic or manned, all pactor link initiations are about the same. Only after you receive a system ID or a human greeting you get to know. But I guess, given the frequency, that it was

[digitalradio] QRM wars.

2008-01-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
OK, Bill, I had heard it before, and refrained to comment, but this time I suffered it myself. I decided to change the subject to something more appropiate to what I am referring to. I have been thinking a bit about all thisI am tempted to try to monitor using Multipsk with the soundcard

Re: [digitalradio] Robust Packet-Radio (RPR)

2008-01-12 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rick, I believe they address one of the largest shortcomings of packet: its modem. As I understand (I might be mistaken, I have not upgraded my PTC) it is the same AX.25 protocol with a more robust modulation. In fact, a different modulation with robust encoding. 73, Jose, CO2JA -- Rick

Re: [digitalradio] Software for the digital ham that multi-tasks while sleeping ?

2008-01-11 Thread Jose A. Amador
in RTTY mode, at 1500 it closes Winwarbler and launches Multipsk in Olivia 500/16 and at 1700 it launches VB-Digi/FLARQ in PSK250 . Anyone care to invent this ? -- MSc. Jose Angel Amador Fundora Departamento de Telecomunicaciones Facultad de Ingenieria Electrica, CUJAE Calle 114 #11901 e

[digitalradio] Mode identification

2008-01-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
Yes, but the RS ID signal has to be transmitted. I believe that Jack refers to some thing like a function PK-232's had to analyze and identify the mode. Something could be done using MultiPSK Analysis function. But for an example, today I attempted to decode a signal tha APPARENTLY was PSK250

Re: [digitalradio] HF BBS systems

2008-01-05 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rick wrote: The BBS concept (without the internet) was THE system in place for well over a decade. We initially had worldwide packet HF BBS systems, however they were less effective after the sunspots declined and the higher bands became unusable. Packet does not work well on HF. It

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Licensing of Pactor modes

2008-01-05 Thread Jose A. Amador
Demetre SV1UY wrote: Hi Jose, Happy New Year to you and your family. Happy New Year to you and yours, too (also, to the readers of this list). As for the early KAMs you are right, but after a while they brought out new firmware and they fixed the problem. I have an early KAM with a

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Is PACTOR I Actually DEAD For KBD - KBD?

2008-01-05 Thread Jose A. Amador
w6ids wrote: snip I'm sorry, but I have never understood WHY the mode got dropped just because PSK came alive. I see no reason why it can't be as fun to use as legacy RTTY. I'm probably odd man out but frankly, after some trial and error testing, I have little interest in MT63, Olivia,

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Standard sideband for digi modes?

2008-01-05 Thread Jose A. Amador
MultiPSK also has a reverse button for QPSK modes. Jose, CO2JA Demetre SV1UY wrote: --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Demetre SV1UY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] And don't forget that really it does not matter if you use USB or LSB and you can always flick the REVERSE SWITCH. This

Re: [digitalradio] Questions on digital opposition

2008-01-05 Thread Jose A. Amador
mallon wrote: Yep you sure had that right ! --- Jose A. Amador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is amazing that the developists in highly developed places forgets that the world is far from being equally developed and connected, with high speed digital repeater networks, easily accessible

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Licensing of Pactor modes

2008-01-04 Thread Jose A. Amador
I have attempted to ignore what matters only to those under the FCC jurisdiction. Seems that this anti-Winlink regurgitation is an unavoidable evil... Going to the facts: Kantronics did not implement memory ARQ for Pactor in their early KAM's. So, they were inferior to the real stuff, the SCS

Re: [digitalradio] Questions on digital opposition

2007-12-28 Thread Jose A. Amador
It is amazing that the developists in highly developed places forgets that the world is far from being equally developed and connected, with high speed digital repeater networks, easily accessible Internet, etc, etc... Even more, that you don't have to go to Asia, Africa or anywhere in the

Re: [digitalradio] off topic but a very cool looking photo

2007-11-28 Thread Jose A. Amador
Curious BUTI guess that AC is needed for that effect. In that case, it is not static energy... And noise can be produced both by AC and DC EHV lines, caused by dark and corona discharges. 73, Jose, CO2JA --- Patrick Novak VK2PN wrote: G'day John No wonder I'm getting S-9

Re: [digitalradio] Re: A challenge to RTTY operators!

2007-11-16 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rick wrote: I have to concur with Jose on this. I was a very active HF and VHF digital ham starting around 1981 with a homebrew XR2206/XR2211 TU that was from QST magazine and called The State of the Art TU. It most assuredly was not, but being naive and new to RTTY found it to be a very

Re: [digitalradio] NIC issue

2007-11-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
Misko, Most likely the module for the old NIC is no longer adequate for the new NIC. Look for the proper module and install it. Jose, CO2JA Miroslav Skoric (YT7MPB) wrote: Recently I changed the network card to one based on 3c905-tx chip. It makes me wonder how to make it working with

Re: [digitalradio] Re: A challenge to RTTY operators!

2007-11-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
Allow me to disagree (slightly) on the beginnings of RTTY popularity. I would blame Baycom, and the old Mix DOS versions. I used them (as well as quite few hams I know) way before PSK31 and the sound card modes appeared. Actually, after using them, I built a hardware modem that improved a LOT

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Sub Channel DQPSK

2007-10-29 Thread Jose A. Amador
communication instead of no communication, there would be times that it would be a good choice. My main interest is in using sound card modes that work well for emergency communication with lower power and lesser quality antennas, particularly on HF NVIS. 73, Rick, KV9U Jose Amador

Re: [digitalradio] Sub Channel DQPSK

2007-10-27 Thread Jose A. Amador
Of course it is. PSK31 goes raw, while MFSK and Olivia have FEC added. So, stand a better chance of being decoded correctly. When nature starts stirring the gas above, all it reflects (refracts) suffers the same effect as it had passed thru the house of mirrors, making giants look like dwarfs

Re: [digitalradio] Re: QEX Article on HF Digital Propagation

2007-10-27 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rud Merriam wrote: Jose, Just as you were posting this message I was stumbling on a web site that agreed with your comment. With further searching I think I have the relationship. The QEX article has the statement that to go from the 3kHz bandwidth used you subtract 34 dB and add 10 log

Re: [digitalradio] Re: QEX Article on HF Digital Propagation

2007-10-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rick wrote: Something that has long been unclear to me is how can we have all these modes that work far below zero db S/N and yet the Eb/No (energy per bit relative to noise) can theoretically not go much lower than between 1 and 2 dB below zero dB according to the Shannon Limit? That's

Re: [digitalradio] Re: QEX Article on HF Digital Propagation

2007-10-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
I thought about the same. On pactor, the doppler perturbation is 31/100 of the signalling rate, thus, results less affected, even without taking into account the FEC and QRQ strenghts that Pactor also packs along. 73, Jose, CO2JA Vojtech Bubnik wrote: PSK31 failed, bad copy even under good

Re: [digitalradio] Sub Channel DQPSK

2007-10-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rud, You can see the variations in the ionosphere as a phase modulator embedded in the channel. So, it will phase modulate whatever you attempt to get thru it. Actually, it has a phase modulator embedded for each arriving path. With differential encoding, and signalling speed higher than the

Re: [digitalradio] Modes the work with SSB splatter

2007-10-22 Thread Jose A. Amador
Who showed up first? I believe that on the light of the previous discussions, PJ2/WK4Y came first, he should not have been QRM'd with PSK, MFSK or whatever, and all activity should have stopped until that spectrum chunk was cleared, as SSB is authorized on those frequencies in this part of

[digitalradio] Attempting to end the never ending tale.

2007-10-19 Thread Jose A. Amador
Dave AA6YQ wrote: +++ AA6YQ comments below +++ I do not know the date at which 97.101 was originally instituted or last modified. Part 97 is available online via Thanks for the links. +++ That's not true, Jose. If an unattended station contains a busy frequency detector, then it can

Re: [digitalradio] Need to Expand the HF Auto Band Segments

2007-10-18 Thread Jose A. Amador
You are pretty persistent, sir Dave AA6YQ wrote: AA6YQ comments below *From:* digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Jose A. Amador snip Rating automatic operations as extremely unpopular with most is exagerated. It seems to just reflect a extreme

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Need to Expand the HF Auto Band Segments

2007-10-18 Thread Jose A. Amador
OK, John. The first compressed BBS software I knew was it. I have not read otherwise in my old books. But it is possible to have been existsed and not gotten popular. About what goes first and second, the first loss is already enough...he, he... 73, Jose, CO2JA --- John Becker, WØJAB

Re: [digitalradio] Need new emergency communications mode: Project Management

2007-10-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rud, Running Linux in an old box requires an old version of Linux, matched to the box contents. I used RedHat 5.2 on a 486, and 6.2 on a P1. Mostly, text mode, with a CGA or the older and less voracious GUI, with 1 MB RAM video cards. The BBS's ran happy with it, and I even did ftp and http

Re: [digitalradio] Pactor and Seasonally Affected Disorder (SAD)

2007-10-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
I see no timestamp in the article. When did this show up? I guess it must have been on October 1st, since seasons are 6 months out of phase between the north and south hemispheres. 73, Jose, CO2JA --- r_lwesterfield wrote: This is excellent . . . just what this group needs . . . and I

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Need to Expand the HF Auto Band Segments

2007-10-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
As Jean Paul Roubelat explains in the FBB docs, the design of FBB B1 compression had to comply with a requisite from the french authorities, by which message headers must be sent in clear text. But compression gives a measure of efficiency and allow to double the traffic or reduce the channel

Re: [digitalradio] Net: 10m Operation

2007-10-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
I had quite good results with 1200 baud on 10 meters. It was a long time ago, but it was comparable to 2 meters at times. Jose, CO2JA -- Rud Merriam wrote: Assume an RF mesh network operating on 10m. Is there an advantage in the ability to use 1200 baud? Or is multipath still a big

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Need to Expand the HF Auto Band Segments

2007-10-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
John Becker, WØJAB wrote: ***In 1984 they started doing the very same thing to Packed traffic from one BBS to the other. As far as I remember, compression started with FBB 5.13 around 1990. MSYS (1.09 ???) and JNOS (1.10 ???) followed later. SNIP ***So where do you stand on Packet. It's

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Imitating the big guys

2007-10-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
Dave Bernstein wrote: *** more AA6YQ comments SNIP *** Then why did you bring up the point that PMBOs can detect ongoing QSOs in Pactor? If you weren't suggesting this as a solution, then what was your intention? I was merely describing a fact, not suggesting anything as you so quickly

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Imitating the big guys

2007-10-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
Beware ! Do you see how you act? Nowhere in my text it says it is useless, it just says it is unavailable. Isn't it ? Those are very different words. Dave Bernstein wrote: AA6YQ comments bloew --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Jose Amador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've argued

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Imitating the big guys

2007-10-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rick wrote: Dave seems to have the high ground on this discussion. Some of Jose's comments lately seem to be very specious, which surprises me since he has normally been fairly logical in his comments. I am concerned that Jose is claiming that Dave does not accept the hidden transmitter

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Imitating the big guys

2007-10-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
Dave Bernstein wrote: AA6YQ comments below --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Jose A. Amador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip There are physical mechanisms in radio propagation that creates hidden stations. So do losses, distance, natural obstacles, and finite propagation paths. I

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Imitating the big guys

2007-10-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
Dave Bernstein wrote: +++more AA6YQ comments below --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Jose A. Amador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, hidden stations are absolutely a fact of life on HF. Why then would anyone deploy an unattended station that relies on a remote initiator to ensure

Re: [digitalradio] Only using wide digital modes

2007-10-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
The fact is that SCS modems REDUCE the power to what is just needed to keep the link. If QRM shows up, the modem will just attempt to maintain the needed SNR. And it is not done ONLY in the PMBO but also on the user end. I have seen powers as low as 5 watts with a 100 watts radio. Jose, CO2JA

Re: [digitalradio] Busy Detection

2007-10-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
Howard Brown wrote: Jose and Demetre, Let's say the two of you were having a nice Pactor QSO on 14.091.00 kHz. Now let's say that N4XX (made up callsign) calls me on the same frequency using RTTY because he can't hear you. OK on the made up callsign. But actually, even when not on Pactor,

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Imitating the big guys

2007-10-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
Dave Bernstein wrote: ### more AA6YQ comments below --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Jose A. Amador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +++That's an unreasonable requirement, Jose, especially given that PMBOs use a protocol that can't be implemented with soundcard software on a Windows PC

Re: [digitalradio] The top five reasons why PMBO QRM is your fault

2007-10-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
Dave Bernstein wrote: 1. You're using panoramic reception and consider signals anywhere on your waterfall to be QRM With a bit of self education people can get to identify what is on the waterfall. 2. You're operating in a mode other than Pactor Yes, I do also. 4. Neither snow nor

Re: [digitalradio] JT65A..first contact

2007-09-30 Thread Jose A. Amador
I guess you are using ntp via modem. I am interested in finding a way to sync Linux to CHU, WWV or WWVB using a soundcard and the radio time codes. Does anyone on the list has already done that? How? 73, Jose, CO2JA --- David Munn wrote: for clock accuracy im using the ntp server of

Re: [digitalradio] JT65A..first contact

2007-09-30 Thread Jose A. Amador
David, I do not have full Internet at home, just e-mail. I have been using CHU with the CLOCK program from F6CTE, for Windows. I am running XP now, but this is a dual boot PC. That's the reason I am interested in using the radio to sync my PC, which is necessary to use WSJT or track

Re: [digitalradio] ALE yes ... or no?

2007-09-30 Thread Jose A. Amador
Robert Thompson wrote: You probably mean Linux kernel-mode AX.25, since JNOS runs fine on Linux =) Yes, I meant EXACTLY that. Kernel AX.25 can be fooled to endless repeats by TFPCX and an inadequate computer (say, a 286 running some terminal ughh !!) That has been a factual case for

Re: [digitalradio] ALE yes ... or no?

2007-09-27 Thread Jose A. Amador
In my personal experience, JNOS first, and Linux in second place, have been a fairly good match to the radio channel characteristics for e-mail and web browsing over AX.25 packet radio. How is that? Well, JNOS has tweaked timers, or better stated, the ability of setting channel access

Re: [digitalradio] Re: jt65a is an automatic mode

2007-09-27 Thread Jose A. Amador
Not at all. It is a mode where humans must decide if a QSO is valid. EME ops are certainly picky about this. It is meant for EME, it was not created as another automatic box. Of course, it has proven useful for extreme HF DX as well, which is not as extreme as EME may prove to be. I would

Re: [digitalradio] re: ARQ FAE

2007-09-20 Thread Jose A. Amador
I used TERMAN93 with a homebrew FSK modem and my PC in 1997 was a 386 at 25 MHz with 20 MB RAM. I had to tweak the too simple dot clock oscillator to shift it from 14.312 MHz to the correct frequency of 14.318181MHz. I never knew about G4BMK Multi. But My PTC-II does that and more, too.

Re: [digitalradio] Busy Detectors

2007-09-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
In an animals meeting someone stated that the culprit was a big mouth animal ...and then the frog and the alligator began blaming each other... . . . . John Becker, WØJAB wrote: Not sure what mode the mode is but should it not be for all modes? Case in point - the other evening I was in

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] 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] Re: The decline of Olivia and DominoEX

2007-09-11 Thread Jose A. Amador
Vojtech, That is what is state of the art in the bag of tricks. Pactor uses convolutional encoding with Viterbi decoding, which allows maximum likelyhood detection. Which means that the decoder knows, taking into account the history of the stream what symbols are likely to come next, instead

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail save session to CD?

2007-09-11 Thread Jose A. Amador
A disk that accepts more data. In Nero terms, you can leave a CD closed (will not accept further data) or open. Usually, music CD's are closed. Open disks are mainly used for data, as music readers will get confused with such a disk. Jose, CO2JA -= Andrew O'Brien wrote: I guess I need to

Re: [digitalradio] PSKmail save session to CD?

2007-09-11 Thread Jose A. Amador
Andrew O'Brien wrote: but when burning an ISO image, I am not given this option. Seems it is OK, I did realize it quickly enough. An ISO is an already closed bundle. So, it would take some extra work to open the ISO in a hard drive and burn the components as separate files. That could

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

2007-09-11 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rick wrote: Hi Jose, Do you see any difference between the convolutional code of Pactor and the Viterbi code in MFSK16 or Patrick's use of Viterbi code in his F versions of PSK and his FEC of DEX? I have not studied those in detail. And I know about Viterbi DECODER, but, would a Viterbi

Re: [digitalradio] Mixed modes regardless of bandplan in an emergency?

2007-09-03 Thread Jose A. Amador
For a long time already my choice has been (as a packet sysop) to send the info in the most compact way possible, and operators should know how to proceed, because RF bandwidth (read it as both occupied spectrum and time of channel occupancy) is a limited resource, contrary to what is common

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
Leigh, It seems to me that there is still a catch, and is the need, specially for lazy people (read it both as lazy and easy to annoy) to store permanent parameters somewhere, so between reboots (easy to happen in emergency environments at the worst moments) the station does not lose its

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
I don't have it yet, just the Mandriva based one...and it worked so well with my PC hardware that I already installed it in one partition. That is the way I solved the vanishing configuration problem. Seems that my LiveCD wish list has been already fulfilled on the Puppy version. 73, Jose,

Re: [digitalradio] Linux capable digital interfaces

2007-08-28 Thread Jose A. Amador
Andy, I am using two transformers, 0ne 1:1 ratio, 600 ohms (RX), and another 10 kohms : 600 ohms (TX), plus a TIL111 optocoupler for PTT from COM 1 (should say /dev/ttyS0...) using the RTS line to close the PTT contact thru the optocoupler's transistor. It has worked well with fldigi and

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Here's a silly thought.

2007-05-31 Thread Jose A. Amador
A chain is as strong as the weakest linkone of them mat be the receiver, another is a sub-standard sound card...so I think Brian is right. 73, Jose, CO2JA Brian Kassel wrote: I don't wish to start any wars, just want you to understand some of the other possible causes of these

Re: [digitalradio] Re: HSCW Bandwidth?

2007-05-28 Thread Jose A. Amador
Tony, You could use any program that uses a spectrum display. Among the serious ones, Spectran comes to my mind. It is free and quite good. 73, Jose, CO2JA Tony wrote: What speed do you have in mind? 1000 to 1500 letters per minute; 200 to 300 wors per minute. The word PARIS

Re: [digitalradio] HSCW Bandwidth?

2007-05-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
Tony, You should convert WPM to bauds to apply the formula. Simpler, and hoping for the best, use a 1500 Hz keyed tone, it allows for symmetric keying sidebands. As in PSK, do not overdrive anything in the TX chain, and you should get a pretty decent signal. With 1200 Hz wide sidebands, you

Re: [digitalradio] VFO Dial Frequency, Audio Frequency, Centre Frequency

2007-05-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
Usually, the Winlink bulletins specify the frequency as the average of the channel for P1 or P2, and 1500 Hz above the dial frequency for P3. It has been long usual to define the frequency of an RTTY signal as the RF frequency of the mark tone. And so on. If you want to define univocally

Re: [digitalradio] Meteor Scatter Basics

2007-05-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
Tony, Thank you for the basics tutorial. I would like to comment that those who downloaded the WSJT example audio files may use them to experiment what is heard. I used Audacity, a free audio editor, which plays the files and lets you see simultaneously the wave stream. It is interesting to

Re: [digitalradio] Digital Voice Repeaters on HF

2007-05-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
If we are talking about DIGITAL VOICE, I believe the answer is receiving the signal and demodulating it to the DIGITAL baseband stream, verifying the stream integrity, and then, if tit passes the integrity test, reshaping (regenerating the pulses) and remodulating. No decoding or converting

Re: [digitalradio] Signals at 14076

2007-05-08 Thread Jose A. Amador
JT65A Charles wrote: There is a musical signal which I assume is degital on 14076 KHz at this time of 2121Z. The bandwidth approximates that of RTTY of MFSK. What is the mode? Charles, K0CW __ V Conferencia Internacional de Energía Renovable,

Re: [digitalradio] Re: [aprpack] Re: Multipsk beta testing ALE APRS, email interface. WSJT65 Contact

2007-05-07 Thread Jose A. Amador
I am using CLOCK, the companion of MultiPSK (registered) and CHU. Works very well. I have good signals on 7335 kHz USB in the early morning and in the evenings. Jose, CO2JA --- WN1Z wrote: On 5/6/07, Bill P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WWV and my PC are perfectly synced and in time with

Re: [digitalradio] 141A

2007-05-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
It is a windows program that may work in Linux with wine. I don't know yet if it would work under other emulators (Crossover Office, etc). 73, Jose, CO2JA - kd4e wrote: Is this app operating system neutral or is it dependent on a single OS? Both VE5GPM and VE5MU will be on 14109.5

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Off-topic, but any help appreciated

2007-04-29 Thread Jose A. Amador
Dave Corio wrote: I can sympathize, but I can top it! Our local ISP was having problems with their e-mail for several days. I finally called tech support and told the person that their mail server was having trouble. His response? We don't have a mail server! Guess we located THAT

Re: [digitalradio] Software for Pactor Controller?

2007-04-25 Thread Jose A. Amador
It MIGHT be possible that Plusterm23 would work with it. I have used it with a PTC2. Make a search on the SCS site downloads. 73, Jose, CO2JA --- wa0cqg wrote: As mentioned in an earlier post, I have a PacComm Pactor I controller (vintage 1992) with version 2.02 firmware. I did find the

Re: [digitalradio] Re: The state of HF digital modes

2007-04-25 Thread Jose A. Amador
What I think is that we cannot measure both the speed and the roll of a screwball...When there are too many variables playing, it is hard to discern, at least, quickly. Pactor III is undoubtely better thought, but not much different in performance at low SNR's. Having no adventages, P II may

Re: [digitalradio] RTTY: ALC with FSK ?

2007-04-21 Thread Jose A. Amador
Andy, I think it does not matter. RTTY has no envelope and nonlimear amplifiers (Class C, etc) can be used with it. Watch the ALC only for modes with an envelope, ie PSKxx. 73, Jose, CO2JA Andrew O'Brien wrote: I'm used to AFSK RTTY and keeping the ALC to a minimum. What about FSK RTTY I

Re: [digitalradio] JT65 -- Set your PC time before getting on the air

2007-04-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
Surely ! I have used NIST's nistime32 with good results. With no Internet access at home, I am using Clock 1.6, the companion of Multipsk with CHU. Using CHU, it works extremely well and failsafe, you won't get garbage with it. It either decodes well or nothing happens. 73, Jose, CO2JA PS:

Re: [digitalradio] Re: JT65 -- Set your PC time before getting on the air

2007-04-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
I guess one second is OK. I have been as much as three seconds away without consequences. The timing is to get transmissions organized and allow the stations to operate in a known time frame. I would say that, watching the way the program works, more than five seconds is unnaceptable. I think

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Japan on 40M to east coast USA!

2007-04-10 Thread Jose A. Amador
Hisami, Could you tell us a good time and frequency to attempt working Japan on 40 meters from the Caribbean using JT65? It would be interesting to give it a try 73, Jose, CO2JA 7L4IOU wrote: Sure, our Digital Segment is 7025 to 7045. 73 Hisami 7L4IOU

Re: [digitalradio] Do we need a separate group for JT65A?

2007-04-10 Thread Jose A. Amador
tongue_in_cheek Maybe what we need is a new group for PSK31 and RTTY. Those are mature modes, and people who doesn't want to wouldn't be forced to bother about innovation. /tongue_in_cheek Jose, CO2JA jhaynesatalumni wrote: Or is the message volume going to die down after everybody here

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