[digitalradio] Re: Has anyone tried the ASuS EEE pc 901?

2009-06-26 Thread Vojtech Bubnik
PocketDigi will run most digital modes (RTTY, PSK31, MFSK, Olivia ...) on any Windows desktop or laptop with 150MHz CPU. It is efficient enough to decode PSK31 on 75 MHz Pentium and show waterfall. 73, Vojtech OK1IAK --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Brent Gourley bg...@... wrote: I have

[digitalradio] JT65B and C versus JT65A

2009-06-26 Thread Andrew O'Brien
While addressing an ARRL LOTW uploading issue with JT65 modes, I began to be intrigued about B and C that I have never tried . Here is an old 2004 explanation from Joe Taylor. Interesting ,at that time , that he was suggesting JT65B be the standard Mode Spacing Total BW

[digitalradio] Call for Papers--2009 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference

2009-06-26 Thread Ford, Steve, WB8IMY
Technical papers are solicited for presentation at the 28th Annual ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference to be held September 25-27, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. These papers will also be published in the Conference Proceedings (you do NOT need to attend the conference to have your paper

[digitalradio] Field Day

2009-06-26 Thread John Bradley
We are operating as VE5XZ on field day, (3A) using as many digital modes as possible. Ops mostly 20/80m and will be active for the entire FD period. Locator is DO70QK Look forward to workin y'all John VE5MU

[digitalradio] North American Field Day: What u doing ?

2009-06-26 Thread Andrew O'Brien
I have been the digital ringer for a few clubs in the past few years, bringing lots of gear and demonstrating how digital modes work. This year I am not going to a highly competitive club, will do some casual CW for a local club and may do some really LOW tech digital modes operations.

[digitalradio] Peek-a-boo sound devices

2009-06-26 Thread Andrew O'Brien
I use an internal sound card for ham operations and an external sound device , in the form of USB speakers, for routine PC/Internet work including DX announcements via Spotcollector. This works well except that every know and again ham applications that have been working well via the internal

Re: [digitalradio] Peek-a-boo sound devices

2009-06-26 Thread kh6ty
Andy, I have also found that Windows will reassign USB ports if anything is plugged in or unplugged. My solution was to set the default sound system to the onboard system and use USB for the ham devices, such as the SignaLink USB. The problem is especially troublesome when I plug my WebCam

Re: [digitalradio] The ARQ Advantage?

2009-06-26 Thread Bill V WA7NWP
AX25 allows several stations to operate within a bit of spectrum wide enough for one. For example, up to a dozen Q15x25 stations can operate within one 1k to 3k ( depending on how you scale the modems ) slice of spectrum. ARQ modes that do not operate under AX25 are incapable of this, and so

Re: [digitalradio] Peek-a-boo sound devices

2009-06-26 Thread Chris Robinson
I had simmilar issues and found that I need to power down and reboot if I wish to swap out USB devices. When hot swaped it gave me hell. Now I make a point to make connections on USB devices with system off so it auto detects and remains with proper settings of my desire. On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at

[digitalradio] EME/Joe Taylor featured in New York Times

2009-06-26 Thread Andrew O'Brien
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/technology/27moon.html By ASHLEE VANCE Published: June 26, 2009 PALO ALTO, Calif. — Dogs bay at it. Lovers swoon under it. And some people like to bounce their voices off it. Michael Cousins, an engineer at SRI International, a non-profit that operates the