Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-17 Thread Rein Couperus
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 13.01.07 02:36:52 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia Rein, I am not clear on this. The B2F compression is used with Winlink 2000. I am not sure what

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
Betreff: Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia Rein, I am not clear on this. The B2F compression is used with Winlink 2000. I am not sure what it really is other than a compression scheme to nearly double plain text throughput and is some kind of adaptation to the protocols

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-16 Thread Mark Miller
Rick, This is certainly lost on the Pactor III group. 73, Mark N5RFX having many small bandwidth users means more throughput for more users than one large bandwidth user at a time.

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-13 Thread Jose A. Amador
I am afraid it is as Rein says. FBB, which uses B1F compression (hope I remember right) does not compress the sysop keyboard, but just the BBS traffic. JNOS has a compressed ttylink mode that uses LZW and has never worked for me (compile errors), but which might provide an edge. PTC-II boxes

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-13 Thread Jose A. Amador
Not bad...but quite a few DXpeditions and less luck people cannot rely on full time Internet. This is ham radio... Jose CO2JA Dave Bernstein wrote: Why stop there, Leigh? With the use of QRZ.com and weather.com to independently determine name, QTH, and weather conditions, you could

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-13 Thread Paul L Schmidt, K9PS
Leigh L. Klotz, Jr. wrote: But why stop there, as you say? I'm reasonably sure someone's already done this (from the scores I see in the contest logs) but it should be possible to totally automate the RTTY contests. With wide-band SDR receivers (and transmitters for that matter) it ought

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-13 Thread KV9U
The Winlink 2000 promoter brings up B2F from time to time with the claim that this is what makes their system have the extra efficiency. But apparently this is a bit overstated. Is it possible to use more compression in the current keyboard modes or is Varicode about as good as can be

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-13 Thread KV9U
If it is the same protocol as B1F, was the reason for developing it, that the B1F did not have the needed exchange to work with Winlink 2000? So it is basically an extended version to do more things that they need to have it do? I don't think that I am fully understanding what your code is

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-13 Thread Leigh L Klotz, Jr.
There is already a degree of Huffman-type compression in PSK31 via the Varicode, where the number of bits per symbol depends on symbol frequency. Compression that depends on the text that went before it could be more efficient, but would lead to total loss of the following text in the ecent

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-13 Thread N2QZ
KV9U wrote: If it is the same protocol as B1F, was the reason for developing it, that the B1F did not have the needed exchange to work with Winlink 2000? I'm not really sure what that means, and I'm pretty sure I didn't say B2F is the same protocol as B1F. Only the compression is the same.

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-12 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
: Pactor versus Olivia I have seen the claim for a good operator able to copy down to about -15 db S/N for CW operation. Some of the digital soundcard modes are supposed to be able to still have throughput down around -15 depending upon other factors such as doppler, ISI, etc. Using Multipsk, and I

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-12 Thread Rein Couperus
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 12.01.07 17:09:44 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: RE: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia By the way, I have often wondered why the B2F binary compression system used with the Winlink 2000 system

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-12 Thread Leigh L Klotz, Jr.
of the uppercase text as well... Leigh/WA5ZNU On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 1:02 pm, Rein Couperus wrote: -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 12.01.07 17:09:44 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: RE: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-12 Thread Rein Couperus
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 12.01.07 22:24:49 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia Here's a modest proposal: compress most of the QSO the way the moonbounce modes do, by knowing what

[digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-12 Thread Dave Bernstein
: Pactor versus Olivia By the way, I have often wondered why the B2F binary compression system used with the Winlink 2000 system has never been used for nearly a 2:1 compression for improved throughput. This could be applied to any system, including keyboarding. 73, Rick

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-12 Thread KV9U
Rein, I am not clear on this. The B2F compression is used with Winlink 2000. I am not sure what it really is other than a compression scheme to nearly double plain text throughput and is some kind of adaptation to the protocols that were adopted by FBB such as B1F. Shouldn't this work with

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-12 Thread N2QZ
KV9U wrote: I am not clear on this. The B2F compression is used with Winlink 2000. I am not sure what it really is other than a compression scheme to nearly double plain text throughput and is some kind of adaptation to the protocols that were adopted by FBB such as B1F. B2F compression

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-12 Thread Leigh L. Klotz, Jr.
Betreff: RE: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia By the way, I have often wondered why the B2F binary compression system used with the Winlink 2000 system has never been used for nearly a 2:1 compression for improved throughput. This could

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-12 Thread Danny Douglas
: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia Thanks for the suggestion Dave and I'm glad you liked my modest proposal. In fact I have an XSLT transformation I can apply to weather.com which is invoked via a command-line macro which inserts the current temperature from weather.com, so when people ask for WX

[digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-11 Thread Demetre SV1UY
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, may I inject my 2 cents worth. SCS says that Pactor III is 4 times faster than Pactor II and the code would indicate such. Thus the raw channel throughput IS faster and the BER should be

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-11 Thread kd4e
SCS says that Pactor III is 4 times faster than Pactor II and the code would indicate such. Thus the raw channel throughput IS faster and the BER should be better. But as far as performance goes at varying SNRs will make a difference in throughput. At a -5 dB SNR on the KC7WW channel

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-11 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Demetre SV1UY Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:44 AM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, may I inject

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-11 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
only need Pactor I. Walt/K5YFW -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of kd4e Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:44 AM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia SCS says that Pactor III is 4

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-11 Thread KV9U
While this information does not seem to support the SCS claim of working way down to the minus teens of db S/N, it is interesting that in the old days Pactor 1 users claimed that they could get throughput when they could not even hear any suggestion of modulation. I never found this to be

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-11 Thread DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
: Pactor versus Olivia While this information does not seem to support the SCS claim of working way down to the minus teens of db S/N, it is interesting that in the old days Pactor 1 users claimed that they could get throughput when they could not even hear any suggestion of modulation. I never

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-11 Thread KV9U
I have seen the claim for a good operator able to copy down to about -15 db S/N for CW operation. Some of the digital soundcard modes are supposed to be able to still have throughput down around -15 depending upon other factors such as doppler, ISI, etc. Using Multipsk, and I don't know how

[digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-10 Thread Demetre SV1UY
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rich Mulvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The thing about Pactor 1 is that it's adequate for relatively good conditions, but is noticably worse than Pactor 2 and 3 when things get marginal. Pactor 3 absolutely shines under the absolute worst conditions,

[digitalradio] Re: Pactor versus Olivia

2007-01-07 Thread Bill McLaughlin
Hi Andy, I listened for about 90 minutes - problem for me was that copy was too good (a rare compliant about that) - you and Craig we 100% print in all modes tried, even BPSK31. Was alot of fun following you two around and your use of the RS ID helped alot for when I was less than attentive to