Re: [digitalradio] Disinformation about ALE by N5PVL Re: Getting serious about ALE / LID factor

2009-11-24 Thread Rick Karlquist
Alan Barrow wrote: Rick Karlquist wrote: That reminds me. During the CW Sweepstakes 2 weeks ago, I was trying to operate on ~7030 and bursts of RTTY-sounding stuff kept coming on the frequency for 5 or 10 seconds every once in a while. Is that ALE? That was not ALE, as the common

Re: [digitalradio] Disinformation about ALE by N5PVL Re: Getting serious about ALE / LID factor

2009-11-24 Thread Rick Karlquist
Alan Barrow wrote: I do radio with boy scout troops when camping. And find increasingly, that contests are making weekend operation very difficult. It's hard to find a weekend without a major contest, sometimes more than one. Have you tried 60, 30, 17 or 12 meters? No contests there. Rick

Re: [digitalradio] Disinformation about ALE by N5PVL Re: Getting serious about ALE / LID factor

2009-11-24 Thread Rick Karlquist
DANNY DOUGLAS wrote: I have seen the same thing. One of the problems is that 20 and 15 are the two dx freqs in the daytime, where we might reasonably contact other scouts, in the rest of the world. I.E. That is the typical Scout If those bands are open, 17 meters will be open. I have had

Re: [digitalradio] Disinformation about ALE by N5PVL Re: Getting serious about ALE / LID factor

2009-11-23 Thread Rick Karlquist
Charles, Your constant efforts to spread disinformation about ALE use in ham radio shows how little you know about how hams are using ALE. If you are really concerned about lids on HF, start with the #1 primary source of QRM: contesters. Bonnie VR2/KQ6XA That reminds me. During

Re: [digitalradio] 13 pin DIN plug switch box?

2009-11-23 Thread Rick Karlquist
Gary A. Hinton wrote: Hello Tony, Your not going to find one of those type of boxes. They just don't exist. You can build one easily. Go to your local thrift shop and pick up a RS232 switch box use for switching printers used in the past. It contains the switch that

Re: [digitalradio] 7030 QRM

2009-11-23 Thread Rick Karlquist
Andy obrien wrote: Rick, not likely . ALE mostly uses 7040500 7065000 7099500 7102000 7110500 7185500 7296000 Actually, now that I think about it, I was trying to use 7040. Rick N6RK

Re: [digitalradio] Moderator comments : Listen-Don't listen

2009-11-23 Thread Rick Karlquist
Andy obrien wrote: Before we go down the path of debating listen first or not. I will remind folks that most of the argument has been stated before. Aside from the legalities of the issue, there are camps that strongly advocate that every hams should also listen first and not transmit if

RE: [digitalradio] ZS pigeon 'faster than broadband'

2009-09-10 Thread Rick Karlquist
years ago compared a pony express rider carrying a saddlebag full of DVD's to a T1 line. The pony express rider blew away the T1 line in terms of bit rate. Rick Karlquist N6RK

Re: [digitalradio] New 7MHz IARU Region 1 Bandplan

2009-03-13 Thread Rick Karlquist
What are these comments based on? They are not consistent with the April QST article. Do you know something the ARRL doesn't know or isn't telling? BTW, the 41 meter band is not being removed from SWBC, only moved. Based on what I read, that wasn't the controversial part. The tough sell was

Re: [digitalradio] Cheap PC source

2009-02-19 Thread Rick Karlquist
John Gleichweit wrote: I get about 90% of my stuff from http://www.pacificgeek.com They have all kinds of refurbished computers from desktops to laptops to servers. -- John Smokey Behr Gleichweit FF1/EMT, CCNA, MCSE So everything they advertise is refurbished, not new or used? On the

Re: [digitalradio] Cheap PC source

2009-02-19 Thread Rick Karlquist
John Becker, WØJAB wrote: Rick same here in the St. Louis area. That is why all 7 of my computers are Dell's. Just punch in the tag number and their site will tell you what drivers you need. Load the OS and drivers and your done. Since you can now load XP on any number of computers it's no

Re: [digitalradio] 10 MHz Ham Radio Balloon Flight to Europe from North America, Sunday April 6th @ 0000 UTC

2008-04-04 Thread Rick Karlquist
What is the call sign of this beacon? Rick N6RK Mark Thompson wrote: SNOX V 10 MHz Amateur Radio Balloon Flight The Spirit of Knoxville V (SNOX V) balloon will launch Sunday 6th April at UTC, from Knoxville, TN in an attempt to cross the Atlantic. It will carry Amateur Radio beacons

Re: [digitalradio] Re: 10 MHz Amateur Radio balloon to Cross the Atlantic

2007-11-07 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
to be obtained. Lastly, does foreign operation come into play and the need for reciprocal licenses when the balloon reaches Europe? Jim WA0LYK --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com mailto:digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com, Rick Karlquist richard@ wrote: Mark Thompson wrote: - Forwarded Message

Re: [digitalradio] Re: 10 MHz Amateur Radio balloon to Cross the Atlantic

2007-11-06 Thread Rick Karlquist
Russell Hltn wrote: I personally have nothing against them, but they do need to follow the law. One would think the space program would have settled all of these questions already. Legally, it is not a spacecraft because it is less than 50 km high. Rick N6RK

Re: [digitalradio] 10 MHz Amateur Radio balloon to Cross the Atlantic

2007-11-05 Thread Rick Karlquist
Mark Thompson wrote: - Forwarded Message From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 5, 2007 4:50:26 PM Subject: Balloon Launch 10 MHz Amateur Radio balloon to cross the Atlantic The balloon payload will include a GPS unit and CPU that will regulate the balloon's

RE: [digitalradio] Announcing the 2007 International Message QRP Relay Race... August 11: Need teams.

2007-07-11 Thread Richard \(Rick\) Karlquist
Any authorized band may be used. CW , SSB- Voice, FM-Voice, AM-Voice, modes are NOT permitted modes.(WinDRM IS permitted). This is interesting. Various digital proponents have tirelessly pointed out how inefficient these obsolete modes are. Why not let them compete too and let the best mode

Re: [digitalradio] Remotely controlled radio with full connectivity.

2007-02-16 Thread Rick Karlquist
Leigh L Klotz, Jr. wrote: . One thing that Skype does well is negotiate connectivity for the audio. It can use peer-to-peer UDP or TCP or HTTP[ gateway CONNECT streaming, or as a last resort, a geographically-located Skype server that both parties can get too. There some quite complex stuff

Re: [digitalradio] Re: OFDM data is Emission Designator D1D

2006-11-25 Thread Rick Karlquist
that the subcarriers are indeed orthogonal. 73, John KD6OZH - Original Message - From: Rick Karlquist To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Cc: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 19:49 UTC Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: OFDM data is Emission Designator D1D

RE: [digitalradio] BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-09 Thread Richard \(Rick\) Karlquist
Unquote Rick Karlquist N6RK Rick Karlquist N6 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: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo

Re: [digitalradio] Very low cost computer

2006-08-25 Thread Rick Karlquist
The problem with low cost computers is that they are only low cost if your time is free. By definition, if your time is free, you are not smart enough to do anything sophisticated with computers. The learning curve on any unorthodox computer cannot be justified by saving money on the computer,

RE: [digitalradio] Multichannel radio using 6 channel sound card?

2006-04-01 Thread Richard \(Rick\) Karlquist \(N6RK\)
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jose Amador Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 9:57 AM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Multichannel radio using 6 channel sound card? --- Richard (Rick) Karlquist (N6RK) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Related question

[digitalradio] Multichannel radio using 6 channel sound card?

2006-03-31 Thread Richard \(Rick\) Karlquist \(N6RK\)
I just joined the group. Sorry for a newby question: I would like to monitor the same frequency on 4 to 6 antennas simultaneously. Can I use 4 to 6 softrock receivers connected to a Delta 44 or Delta 66 sound card and run multiple instances of a DSP program? Related question: The softrock