Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-13 Thread Leigh L Klotz, Jr.
I think in addition to one table per language you will also need different tables for 75m than for 20m., hihi. Leigh/WA5ZNU On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 1:15 am, Rein Couperus wrote: I a working on such a scheme for PSKmail, with tables of 32k standard words (1 for each language), Need a Digital

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-12 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week. --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard DV using LCP-10 and a 16 tone modem as well as a 39 tone modem at 1200 bps...it sounds robotic at best. But that could have been just the systems

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-12 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 3:54 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week. The one common theme I see with much of the digital modes that require the higher

[digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-11 Thread Ed Hekman
Some more info: I found a paper that describes some tests done with 2.4Kbps and 1.2kbps voice transmission over HF paths. It sounds like the 1.2 kbps gives useable voice quality. I talked to a friend who had done some research for the military back in the '80s on digital voice transmission

[digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-11 Thread cesco12342000
The WinDRM specification is very sketchy .. Well,... you are invited to provide a better one. but the FEC is not described. The interleaving of the pilots and overhead data is described but not the interleaving of the voice data. It says This document describes the DIFFERENCE of mode

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-11 Thread KV9U
It was my understanding that the QAM-4 modulation was used for the text transmission and you needed to use at least QAM-16 for the voice. How many bps can you get through with QAM-4? If LPC doesn't work at 1200 bps, then what other codec do you suggest? Even MELP (which is a type of LPC)

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-11 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
voice. Walt/K5YFW -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:17 AM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week. Some more info: I found a paper

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-11 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 8:20 AM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week. It was my understanding that the QAM-4 modulation was used for the text transmission and you needed to use at least QAM-16 for the voice. How many bps

[digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-11 Thread Ed Hekman
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard DV using LCP-10 and a 16 tone modem as well as a 39 tone modem at 1200 bps...it sounds robotic at best. But that could have been just the systems used (ANDVT/Mil-STD-188-110) Walt/K5YFW

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-11 Thread Patrick Lindecker
e: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week. The one common theme I see with much of the digital modes that require the higher level of speed is that the required minimum S/N ratio hovers around 10 db S/N. It seems to be true with DV voice, with SCAMP, and also

[digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-11 Thread cesco12342000
It was my understanding that the QAM-4 modulation was used for the text transmission Negative. Text and data can be anything from qam-4 to qam-64 FAC data (the callsign) is the only thing which is always qam-4 and you needed to use at least QAM-16 for the voice. Since the codecs used

[digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-11 Thread cesco12342000
The only solution to do voice exchange with a low S/N would be to translate all the pronounced words in symbols Exactly what i am thinking! We need to establish a phoneme alphabet. Then, a correlator is needed to extract those phonems from the voice input. Each phonem should have duration

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-11 Thread KV9U
Hi Patrick and group, I wonder if there would be much interest in this kind of DV? The main argument was for having a high quality sounding voice in real time. In the early 1980's, there used to be a product called HERO (Heath Educational Robot) which allowed simple phoneme entry so that it

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-11 Thread KV9U
Glad that I was understanding that the 4-QAM was for the text part and not voice. At least at this point of technology advancement. Also, you had said earlier that: Tests with a 1200 bit/sec LPC codec have been negative (bad intellegibility). From my understanding of the documentation for

[digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-11 Thread jhaynesatalumni
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Lindecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have listened some test in spanish with artificial voice reading words. It was not too bad. The real problem is to translate voice in symbols, in a reliable way. Yes. There was that fairly recent QST article

[digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-11 Thread cesco12342000
From my understanding of the documentation for WinDRM, MELP does work if the speed is at least 1,000 bps. No. 1000 bp400ms (bit per 400 ms) or 2400 bps This per second / per 400 millisecond mixture is confusing ! Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-11 Thread KV9U
Oops, I forgot about that 400 ms time segment! Yes, now I see what you mean. Thanks for helping clarify this. 73, Rick, KV9U cesco12342000 wrote: From my understanding of the documentation for WinDRM, MELP does work if the speed is at least 1,000 bps. No. 1000 bp400ms (bit per 400

[digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-10 Thread Ed Hekman
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Ed Hekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found the specifications. The spec used for broadcast DRM can be found here: http://webapp.etsi.org/exchangefolder/es_201980v020101p.pdf The WinDRM spec can be found here:

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-09 Thread Tony
Ed wrote: Are there any communications engineers in this group that can give us some idea whether a useable quality digitized voice can be sent over a 2.5 KHz wide HF channel with SNR comparable to or less than what is required for analog voice? I was thinking about this today Ed. I'd

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-09 Thread KV9U
Even though I am not an engineer, we know from P-25 that digital voice transmissions drop out before analog completely goes into the noise and it is my understanding that the narrowest BW they use is 6.25 KHz. And that is primarily for VHF/UHF frequencies that do not have the problems we have

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-09 Thread Jose A. Amador
Tony wrote: Ed wrote: Are there any communications engineers in this group that can give us some idea whether a useable quality digitized voice can be sent over a 2.5 KHz wide HF channel with SNR comparable to or less than what is required for analog voice? I was thinking about

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-09 Thread kd4e
Even though I am not an engineer, we know from P-25 that digital voice transmissions drop out before analog completely goes into the noise and it is my understanding that the narrowest BW they use is 6.25 KHz. And that is primarily for VHF/UHF frequencies that do not have the problems we

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-09 Thread Jose A. Amador
kd4e wrote: I am puzzled as to why one digital signal works well under poor signal conditions and another does not. You have to define poor conditions somehow. It may be noise, multipath, ionospheric doppler, fading, etc. Each one produces a different impairment, depending on the modulation

[digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-09 Thread Ed Hekman
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed wrote: Are there any communications engineers in this group that can give us some idea whether a useable quality digitized voice can be sent over a 2.5 KHz wide HF channel with SNR comparable to or less than what

[digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-09 Thread Ed Hekman
I found the specifications. The spec used for broadcast DRM can be found here: http://webapp.etsi.org/exchangefolder/es_201980v020101p.pdf The WinDRM spec can be found here: http://www.qslnet.de/member/hb9tlk/drm_h.html Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-09 Thread KV9U
It is not so much that the package is different between voice and text modes, but rather, the amount of data flowing through the link in a given amount of time. In order to have voice transmissions with good intelligibility and no breaks in the signal, you need a VERY robust data link. The

[digitalradio] Re: Digital Voice: Some thoughts after one week.

2006-10-08 Thread Ed Hekman
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been QRV on digital voice ,using WinDRM, and thought I would offer some rookie/newbie random thoughts. 1. This mode's performance may appear counter-intuitive for most digital mode operators. By that