Re: [digitalradio] Re: OFDM Proposal

2007-10-22 Thread Sholto Fisher
I don't know if this info is much use but Skysweep Technologies bundle an OFDM (TX RX) mode with their SkySweeper 5.12 package. http://www.skysweep.com/skysweep.html The mode is called SkyOFDM and from their help file: SkyOFDM is a state of art high speed modem based on the OFDM and turbo

[digitalradio] Re: OFDM Proposal

2007-10-22 Thread cesco12342000
Could a higher higher success rate without the fill requests be achieved with some combination of better FEC, slower data rate, better spreading of the data over frequency and/or time? Try it. It's all there. FEC, data spreading and data rate can be selected in DRM, read the doc. Easypal

Re: [digitalradio] Modes the work with SSB splatter

2007-10-22 Thread Rein Couperus
When I am camping in the south of Spain through the winter, every sunday morning our 30m pskmail link to Sweden is covered up by splatter from french SSB stations. Pskmail makes use of the gaps in the conversation (there are weak and strong stations in the round) and delivers the information.

[digitalradio] Ignoring Other Modes and Languages Re:SSB splatter

2007-10-22 Thread expeditionradio
Rein PA0R wrote When I am camping in the south of Spain through the winter, every sunday morning our our 30m pskmail link to Sweden is covered up by splatter from french SSB stations. Pskmail makes use of the gaps in the conversation Hi Rein, I am curious about the splatter. Normally,

Re: [digitalradio] Ignoring Other Modes and Language s Re:SSB splatter

2007-10-22 Thread Rein Couperus
Rein PA0R wrote When I am camping in the south of Spain through the winter, every sunday morning our our 30m pskmail link to Sweden is covered up by splatter from french SSB stations. Pskmail makes use of the gaps in the conversation Hi Rein, I am curious about the splatter.

[digitalradio] QSO or QRM? ...or Contest?

2007-10-22 Thread expeditionradio
The recent RTTY contest leads one to ponder: Why don't we see much backlash against contests? By orders of magnitude, contests create more QRM than any other cause on ham radio. They commonly render multiple ham bands nearly unusable for normal communications, for several days at a time.

Re: [digitalradio] QSO or QRM? ...or Contest?

2007-10-22 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Bonnie , this is essentially a repeat of your point from several months ago. It is essentially trolling. I will close this topic. Andy K3UK On 10/22/07, expeditionradio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The recent RTTY contest leads one to ponder: Why don't we see much backlash against contests?

Re: [digitalradio] QSO or QRM? ...or Contest?

2007-10-22 Thread bruce mallon
--- expeditionradio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The recent RTTY contest leads one to ponder: Why don't we see much backlash against contests? By orders of magnitude, contests create more QRM than any other cause on ham radio. They commonly render multiple ham bands nearly unusable for

Re: [digitalradio] QSO or QRM? ...or Contest?

2007-10-22 Thread Luc Fontaine
Hi Bonnie, You are absolutely right. The only time i really have to do some DX is on weekends but nearly always I'm confronted with the whole bands occupied by contests. This weekend, there was a RTTY contest taking all the digi bands and at least one on SSB so all my DX interests (SSB and

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] Re: QSO or QRM? ...or Contest?

2007-10-22 Thread Brian A
Luc, Guess what? Contesters work during the week too. Many have weekends only for radio. So you get them engaged in their favorite activity on weekends. Why is this hard to understand? They don't complain about the QRM but rather accept it as a challenge to overcome. I suspect this is also

Re: [digitalradio] Re: OFDM Proposal

2007-10-22 Thread John B. Stephensen
Look at KA9Q's web site, especially http://www.ka9q.net/code/fec/, for FEC software. 73, John KD6OZH - Original Message - From: Rud Merriam To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 05:13 UTC Subject: RE: [digitalradio] Re: OFDM Proposal Ed, I

Re: [digitalradio] QSO or QRM? ...or Contest?

2007-10-22 Thread Roger J. Buffington
expeditionradio wrote: The recent RTTY contest leads one to ponder: Why don't we see much backlash against contests? More flame bait. de Roger W6VZV

Re: [digitalradio] Re: OFDM Proposal

2007-10-22 Thread Rick
OFDM is used by a number of programs as Ed mentions, but isn't this also the prime basis for many of our sound card modes? And Pactor 3? Most of the items mentioned below have been done or are currently used technology. One glaring exception is the lack of a narrow ARQ mode for keyboard that

Re: [digitalradio] Modes the work with SSB splatter

2007-10-22 Thread Rick
Clearly, the 7070 watering hole is used 24/7 by narrow PSK31 stations as long as the band is open. The contester can unfortunately use SSB voice in that part of the band. He may not have known or cared that this is about the hottest digital area on 40 meters, but of course the PSK31 stations

Re: [digitalradio] Re: OFDM Proposal

2007-10-22 Thread John B. Stephensen
The inputs to the FFT for each subcarrier are the sine and cosine of the phase of the signal. This is usually done in a lookup table. However, you're right that a FFT is inefficient for 9 subcarriers. Each could be generated by an accumulator and a sine/cosine lookup table. The input to the

[digitalradio] Re: Modes the work with SSB splatter

2007-10-22 Thread Brian A
I want to point out that 7070 and the surrounds are part of the phone band in Europe and elsewhere(e.g. Canada). It has been that way long before any of these digital modes existed. It isn't just contests. It is a very popular spot day in and day out. The BC stations in EU from 7100 up make

[digitalradio] 30m Slowfeld beacon QRT

2007-10-22 Thread Steinar Aanesland
Hi all, Thank you all for your reports. The response has been overwhelming. Special thanks to those of you that have had the grabber's going on the net. It has been amazing to see my low power signal crawling over the screens. The beacon will be off for a while, but it will be back. Maybe in