Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread KH6TY
Alan, Of course, the FCC rules on SS are outdated and ROS should be allowed due to its narrow spreading range, but the road to success is not to just rename a spread spectrum modem to something else and try to fool the FCC. This is a sure way to lose the battle. The genie is already out of

AW: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread Siegfried Jackstien
Just as an idea: Ad a (non-random) idle to the soft ROS maybe with a bit higher audio level selectable by the user Can be used to resync, for afc, etc. So decoding maybe a bit better And you have overcome the SS problem (if it is a problem . but I do not see any) During sending data the

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread KH6TY
If MFSK16 was randomized would it magically become spread-spectrum? Alan, sorry I forgot to reply to this question. The answer is yes, but only if the following three conditions are ALL met (from the ROS documentation): 1. The signal occupies a bandwidth much in excess of the minimum

Re: [digitalradio] LPDA calculation software?

2010-02-26 Thread Ian Wade G3NRW
From: obrienaj k3uka...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 Time: 06:12:07 Anyone have a link to the old LPDA DOS software? I found a couple of on-line calculators but they do not seem to allow for custom designs as much as the olf DOS application did. LPDA? I googled, but couldn't find

Re: [digitalradio] LPDA calculation software?

2010-02-26 Thread Andy obrien
Log Periodic Dipole Array On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Ian Wade G3NRW g3...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: From: obrienaj k3uka...@gmail.com k3ukandy%40gmail.com Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 Time: 06:12:07 Anyone have a link to the old LPDA DOS software? I found a couple of on-line calculators but

[digitalradio] Re: VHF and UHF Scanning of public service bands

2010-02-26 Thread DaveNF2G
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dan Hensley kc9...@... wrote: Be careful with scanning the Illinois State Police systems in Illinois, while on the Illinois side of the border! Rep. Dan Brady has brought forth legislation that is very blurry and at the end of the proposed law states to

Re: [digitalradio] LPDA calculation software?

2010-02-26 Thread Ian Wade G3NRW
From: Andy obrien k3uka...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 Time: 07:48:51 Log Periodic Dipole Array Try asking in the rec.radio.amateur.antenna Usenet newsgroup. -- 73 Ian, G3NRW

[digitalradio] Re: The FCC's definition of Spread Spectrum

2010-02-26 Thread DaveNF2G
And, the response from the FCC doesn't provide any FCC position or interpretation of ROS, and further says The Commission does not determine if a particular mode truly represents spread spectrum as it is defined in the rules. Forget the petitions for waivers. File a federal lawsuit

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread KH6TY
jose alberto nieto ros wrote: I propose to moderator you will be banned if you continue saying stupid things in this group. Moderated for stupidity? Now that will be a first! Good luck with trying to fool the FCC. Spectral analysis suggests ROS really is FHSS, no matter what you now try to

[digitalradio] Repair of KPC-3

2010-02-26 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, Someone said he repairs TNC? I have a KPC-3 that needs repairs. Chas/W1CG

Re: [digitalradio] LPDA calculation software?

2010-02-26 Thread Dave Ackrill
Ian Wade G3NRW wrote: From: obrienaj k3uka...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 Time: 06:12:07 Anyone have a link to the old LPDA DOS software? I found a couple of on-line calculators but they do not seem to allow for custom designs as much as the olf DOS application did. LPDA? I

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread jose alberto nieto ros
If you are waste time in try demostrate ROS is a SS, i think you are not trying help. De: KH6TY kh...@comcast.net Para: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Enviado: vie,26 febrero, 2010 14:36 Asunto: Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle   jose alberto

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread KH6TY
Jose, my attempted help is to let you understand that the FCC believed you when you said ROS is FHSS, so you will fail in any attempt to reclassify ROS as just FKS144. The FCC will not believe you. What will probably succeed is for you to continue to describe ROS as FHSS and let the FCC permit

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread Warren Moxley
Skip, can you show some more spectral comparison examples? This time add the widest Olivia mode and other very wide modes. Thanks in advance, Warren - K5WGM --- On Fri, 2/26/10, KH6TY kh...@comcast.net wrote: From: KH6TY kh...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread KH6TY
Hi Warren, I have already captured a spectrum of Olivia 32-100 (i.e., FSK32) and posted it in a reply, but glad do it again.. You can see the fixed frequencies at idle and then the new frequencies added when data is sent (in the seared middle part). I have not combined that on one uploaded

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread hteller
Sorry for the typos! seared should have been smeared and Olivia 32-100 should have been Olivia 32, 1000, as you requested. 73 - Skip KH6TY KH6TY wrote: Hi Warren, I have already captured a spectrum of Olivia 32-100 (i.e., FSK32) and posted it in a reply, but glad do it again.. You can

[digitalradio] Re: New ROS Version 2.1.0 More Powerfull

2010-02-26 Thread Al
Still does not have enough COM port selections... Al/ W8AII --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, nietorosdj nietoro...@... wrote: Download here: http://rosmodem.wordpress.com/ And configure the Email menu

[digitalradio] LPDA Software

2010-02-26 Thread n1gke
I hope you will find some useful software here -- http://www.electromagnetics.biz/Tools.htm I will ask around of my local group and see what someone who used the LPDA may have a copy of the program you are looking for. A lot of folks have no clue what a LPDA is,other than the old standard of

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread KH6TY
Jose, I have already had some experience in dealing with the FCC on mode matters and even submitted my own petition, so I am trying to use that experience with them to give you good advice on how to get ROS allowed over here. I want to use ROS myself on 2M EME also, but rith now I can only

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread jose alberto nieto ros
KH, are you a Ham Radio or a FCC member? If you are Ham Radio you should waste your time in help new modes would be used. Only a fool throws stones at your own roof. So, if you are not a FCC member, then we know what you are. De: KH6TY kh...@comcast.net Para:

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread Howard Brown
This is rude. Where is the moderator when you need him? From: jose alberto nieto ros nietoro...@yahoo.es To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, February 26, 2010 8:59:00 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle KH, are you a Ham

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread KH6TY
Jose, I am a ham radio member in good standing and have been for over 55 years. I believe I also have some degree of respect and appreciation in the ham community for my development of DigiPan, introduction of PSK63, and my speech-to-text software for the blind ham so they can use PSK31.

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread KH6TY
Warren, Patrick, F6CTE, has an excellent spectral display of almost every mode at this link: http://f1ult.free.fr/DIGIMODES/MULTIPSK/digimodesF6CTE_en.htm Those displays are just like the one I made with ROS and MFSK16, but not over such a wide bandwidth and not with data input - only

Re: [digitalradio] ROS is a dead issue for me at this time.

2010-02-26 Thread Russell Blair
Thanks Skip for all your help and input into this matter, and until I see something from the FCC it's dead for me. Let Jose take it from here. You have done more than a lot others would have. Tnx Russell NC5O  1- Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door! 2- A

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread Dave Ackrill
jose alberto nieto ros wrote: KH, are you a Ham Radio or a FCC member? If you are Ham Radio you should waste your time in help new modes would be used. Only a fool throws stones at your own roof. So, if you are not a FCC member, then we know what you are. Jose, I should give up on this

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread Wes Linscott
Sounds like a bunch of crap to me . . . From: Toby Burnett ruff...@hebrides.net To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, February 26, 2010 9:44:05 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle   Lol    really sorry, must have clicked the

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread José A. Amador
Astonishing... astonishing language barrier and also an astonishing lack of clues... What a pity. He is not a ham and it seems that understanding the facts is harder for him than applying the proper equations. You can fool all a part of the time, fool a few all the time but not everybody

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread Warren Moxley
Hi Skip, Does ROS have any flexibility like Olivia where you can change the Bandwidth? I am thinking it must not. SS modes that we all have experience with ( Cells, WiFi, etc ) seem to work well on top of each other and seem not to interfere with each other (for the most part). I was wondering

[digitalradio] NCDXF / ROS 14101QRM

2010-02-26 Thread sholtofish
All, I have attempted to translate Arnie Coro's message posted on the ROS reflector into English (below). It is a vitally important issue and I would ask all amateurs (regardless of country) to find a different 20m frequency. Surely it wouldn't be impossible to go to 14105 USB or 14107 USB or

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread KH6TY
Hi Warren, I do not know of any way to change bandwidth in ROS. My observations with ROS is that another ROS station on the same frequency will make ROS stop decoding the first station and start decoding the next. I don't know if it is a matter of strength, but I guess it is. The reason for

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:29:23 -0500, KH6TY kh...@comcast.net said: [snip] It looks to me that the tone frequencies are clearly being generated independently from the data and then the data applied to the randomly generated frequency. There is NO pattern to ROS like there is to FSK modes,

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread jose alberto nieto ros
Hi Warren, in the latest version that problem is fixed. Now ROS no decode new station until a first station has finished. Please, use latest version. Old version has thats problem, and when you have doubs about ROS is better you speak directly with the author of the mode. He is the only that

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread Warren Moxley
Hi Jose, in the latest version that problem is fixed. Now ROS no decode new station until a first station has finished.Please, use latest version. Old version has thats problem  You may be directing you statement to Skip. I have not downloaded ROS yet. I was waiting for your mode to mature a

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread jose alberto nieto ros
It is correct, especially in multipath channels (HF). And remember that ROS 16 is two times more fast than OLIVIA 32/1000. Despite that, it is more robust. De: Warren Moxley k5...@yahoo.com Para: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Enviado: vie,26 febrero, 2010 21:37

[digitalradio] Re: ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread graham787
May be they can drive over the boarder to Canada or Mexico and work ROS / P ? I thought prohibition had been abandoned over there and Edgar had been outed . some things just don't change .. makes the 9 khz discussion on this side look quite tame ! G .. Keep going Jose .. --- In

[digitalradio] Re: ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread silversmj
Hey Skip KH6TY, Could you show us a pic of Chip64 (your choice to compare it to ROS)? Have a look at the links on my message 34845: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/message/34845 The author of Chip64 uses DSSS but in a much narrow BW than ROS. How it works is very nicely disclosed.

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread José A. Amador
Warren, Please allow me put my two cents. I would not expect so if the spreading code is the same. The adventage of CDMA is code orthogonality, each user has a different chipping code that has little correlation with other user's codes., and so, there is little mutual QRM. As far as I

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread KH6TY
Mike, I have uploaded the comparison you requested for ROS (16 baud this time for better comparison overall) compared to CHIP64, both idling: http://home.comcast.net/~hteller/ROS16vsChip64.jpg It is hard to see what happens when you send data in CHIP64 as the signal looks a lot like noise,

Re: [digitalradio] LPDA Software

2010-02-26 Thread Andy obrien
Many thanks Myrton, the lpda software I have been looking for was at your link, 73 de Andy K3K On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:00 AM, n1gke n1...@amsat.org wrote: I hope you will find some useful software here -- http://www.electromagnetics.biz/Tools.htm I will ask around of my local group and

[digitalradio] Re: ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread silversmj
Hey, TU Skip KH6TY for your time and the pic. Wow, I don't see and random-ness to Chip64 yet it is DSSS. Jose has posted/published Technical Spec for ROS if you care to look: http://rosmodem.wordpress.com/ Best 73 de Mike KB6WFC

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread jose alberto nieto ros
Hi Jose, When all users are using latest version of ROS then you will see as other ROS not interference with ROS. About packet, pactor 2, etc... it's obvious . They occuped an important part of spectrum. have you tested what happen if Olivia is tx over other Olivia? or over packet? Some

Re: [digitalradio] Re: The FCC's definition of Spread Spectrum

2010-02-26 Thread Trevor .
--- On Fri, 26/2/10, DaveNF2G d...@nf2g.com wrote: File a federal lawsuit stating that the FCC's determination that ROS is SS and therefore unlawful on HF bands in the USA is arbitrary and capricious, based on the My interpretation from over on this side of the Atlantic is that the FCC DID

[digitalradio] Re: The FCC's definition of Spread Spectrum

2010-02-26 Thread John
I have to agree with Trevor. Not only did the FCC not declare or rule ROS in any way, but the author NEVER asked for any clarification whatsoever. Also of note, once the author understood the difference in the way spread spectrum was being interpreted, he immediately changed the reference to it

Re: [digitalradio] ROS carrier pattern when idle

2010-02-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
No, I have not, because Olivia is usually found in different frequencies than those where packet activity is found on this side of planet Earth, and in general, packet sysops and Olivia users know their way around and do not step over others toes. Very seldom I have experienced Olivia to

Re: [digitalradio] Re: The FCC's definition of Spread Spectrum

2010-02-26 Thread jose alberto nieto ros
In fact, a person named Timothy J. Lilley - N3TL wrote to FCC in my representation without ask me previously, saying what he would think that ROS was, after to read an incomplete document. Here I think each person does their personal guesses as he believes that ROS works, without prior reading

Re: [digitalradio] Re: The FCC's definition of Spread Spectrum

2010-02-26 Thread John B. Stephensen
The FCC didn't do anything arbitrary or capricious. They read a specification provided by the author of the software that stated that ROS is a spread-spectrum mode. They then told the person asking for the FCC's opinion that they should go by what the author wrote and not use ROS on HF. The

Re: [digitalradio] NCDXF / ROS 14101QRM

2010-02-26 Thread Tony
Sholto, The silence is deafening... I'm sure there are some who may be unaware of the the NCDXF beacon network ( www.ncdxf.org ) but there's no excuse for the deliberate QRM I've witnessed. I'm very surprised... NCDXF BEACONS - 14100.0 18110.0 21150.0 24930.0 28200.0 Tony -K2MO

[digitalradio] Re: The FCC's definition of Spread Spectrum

2010-02-26 Thread wd4kpd
hello Tim it sure is hell when you try to do a good deed, keep it up. david/wd4kpd

[digitalradio] Re: The FCC's definition of Spread Spectrum

2010-02-26 Thread wd4kpd
AMEN to your last Trevor. and this is why i continue to operate ROS. thank you for some sanity. david/wd4kpd

[digitalradio] Re: The FCC's definition of Spread Spectrum

2010-02-26 Thread wd4kpd
you got it right John perhaps c u on the bands via ROS. david/wd4kpd

[digitalradio] BPSK125 this weekend

2010-02-26 Thread Andy obrien
From http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/weeklycont.php BPSK125 Bands: 80, 40, 20, 15, 10m Classes:Single Op All Band (High/Low)(24/12) Single Op Single Band (High/Low) Single Op Low Bands (High/Low) Single Op High Bands (High/Low Multi Op Single Transmitter (Old/Young)