[digitalradio] Possible meeting with ROS author next weekend: questions?

2010-06-02 Thread Jose V. Gavila
Hi all, It is possible that I meet with ROS author in a local amateur radio event (EA-QRP annual meeting) in Sinarcas (Valencia, Spain) on next Saturday. I have thought that, if someone has specific technical questions for him, I could translate them to him and would report his comments later

Re: [digitalradio] ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread John Becker, WØJAB
Rein Really don't know what to say at this point. Still trying to understand why my call was added to the list of calls not able to use the ROS program. But since Jose will not say I'll just move on to things other then ROS. But I'm not the only one that this has happen to. No big deal I have

Re: [digitalradio] ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread rein0zn
Hello John, At the risk of being banned for live from this list readers might and I am interested in the details of this situation. I got the impression from your message that you had some contacts with Mr ROS on facebook/twitter? Now, I seems you are saying that you are banned/prevented

Re: [digitalradio] ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread Steinar Aanesland
Hi Rein let's forget about this Mr. Ros without manners and his new a Yahoo list. There is a lot of decent programmers out there, making excellent HAM software. Mr. Ros is not worth the attention he and he's frequency-hopping spread spectrum software is getting. 73 de LA5VNA Steinar

Re: [digitalradio] ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread rein0zn
Dear Steinar, Very true. 73 Rein W6SZ -Original Message- From: Steinar Aanesland saa...@broadpark.no Sent: Jun 2, 2010 4:15 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP Hi Rein let's forget about this Mr. Ros without manners and his new a

[digitalradio] Re: ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread Rein A
Hello John, If your situation is not due to an installation problem or other, but is part of the distributed software, planned, programmed in, it might well have other consequences. ROS modem is under consideration to be incorporated in other amateur radio digital packages. Think about that

Re: [digitalradio] ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread John Becker, WØJAB
No need to worry from being banned from this list from me. That's not my style of moderating. Yes I can no longer use ROS for some reason. I did ask but that went unanswered. All I know is that he posted a updated version and when ask for my call the program would shut down if I recall. Never

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread KH6TY
I agree with Rein's concern. Given the actions of the author in the past, and the fact that he is not even part of the amateur radio community, I'd be very hesitant to use that mode in a program, not know knowing what other malicious code might be embedded in the ROS software. Except for the

[digitalradio] Re: ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP Follow-up

2010-06-02 Thread Rein A
Hello All, from the OFFICIAL ROSMODEM WEBPAGE at 05:38 UTC: On June 7 at 00:00:01 UTC, new improvements will be incorporated to ROS Modes (ROS HF16, ROS HF8 and ROS MF7) It will improve a little more the robutness that characterizes to ROS Modes. So, this time, i expect will be possible

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread Dave
Exactly, Skip. Well put. Dave Real radio bounces off the sky _ From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of KH6TY Sent: Wednesday, 02 June, 2010 17:38 To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

Re: [digitalradio] ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread Dave Sparks
- Original Message - But since I have it on a flash drive I did install it on the laptop and gave it a call other then my call and it worked fine. What do you think? I think even Ray Charles could see that. Jose, if I'm wrong in any way - feel free to jump in here and make any

Re: [digitalradio] ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread John Becker, WØJAB
I think that is what I said below now in RED By my call I mean W0JAB At 12:44 PM 6/2/2010, you wrote: - Original Message - But since I have it on a flash drive I did install it on the laptop and gave it a call other then my call and it worked fine. What do you think? I think

Re: [digitalradio] ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread Dave Sparks
Oops, I missed that. What I *THOUGHT* you were saying is that you tried making a call (to a station with the current release) and succeeded. You might only be able to communicate with stations within a narrow range of release numbers near to the one you possess. I do think that demands for

[digitalradio] Re: ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread Rein A
Hello Dave, K3DCW, and all others, What an eyeopener, that QRZ forum! http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?t=239742. Have been there in the beginning of this venture, but after having been shouted down on the other Yahoo group by some individuals and their uninformed follower's, I was

[digitalradio] Re: ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread Rein A
Hello Dave, K3DCW, and all others, What an eyeopener, that QRZ forum! http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?t=239742. Have been there in the beginning of this venture, but after having been shouted down on the other Yahoo group by some individuals and their uninformed follower's, I was

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread Dave
Without intending to reopen the argument about spread spectrum, the FCC has spoken about the legality of the mode. A few US hams will argue that it isn't spread spectrum since it isn't any wider than a SSB channel. Spread spectrum has no bandwidth definition, it is a transmission technique plain

Re: [digitalradio] ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread rein0zn
Hello Dave, AF6AS, IIRC what does it stand for? There has to be enough information to at least reverse-engineer a mode by the FCC (and the NSA). Is that documented somewhere, not that I want to question the statement or you. What about something like: Those need to be able to

Re: [digitalradio] ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread Dave Sparks
IIRC = if I remember correctly. The documentation issue stemmed from someone who complained that PACTOR, and maybe other digital modes, could be considered codes or cyphers, and the FCC ruled that they weren't because they were publicly documented. The source code has not been released by

Re: [digitalradio] ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread rein0zn
Hello Dave, Don't sse ypou much anymore on HF WSJT ,changes in antenna? OK and thanks. I contacted the people in VA and they replied right away. telling me that they had stopped the mode. as a result of this case and I believe a ruling / statement by ARRL ( probably only , no official FCC

Re: [digitalradio] ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread Dave Sparks
Found the section. It is 97.309(a)(4) of the code: http://www.arrl.org/technical-characteristics The reverse-engineering part is an inference on my part. -- Dave Sparks AF6AS -- From: rein...@ix.netcom.com Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 1:01 PM

Re: [digitalradio] ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread Dave Sparks
I have been experimenting with APRS-PSK63 lately. I'll probably get back to JT65 one of these days. I may even run ROS in beacon receive-only mode on occasion. -- Dave Sparks AF6AS -- From: rein...@ix.netcom.com Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010

[digitalradio] HRD

2010-06-02 Thread ac5pw10
Can anyone tell me which is better to use now ver4.2 or go on ahead and go with ver 5.0 that is still listed as beta on the HRD site. 73, Chuck AC5PW

Re: [digitalradio] ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread Trevor .
--- On Wed, 2/6/10, Dave Sparks dspa...@pobox.com wrote: Found the section.  It is 97.309(a)(4) of the code: http://www.arrl.org/technical-characteristics The reverse-engineering part is an inference on my part. No chance of reverse-engineering Pactor III from the information provided.

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ROS MODEM OFFICIAL GROUP

2010-06-02 Thread Alan Barrow
Dave wrote: Spread spectrum has no bandwidth definition, it is a transmission technique plain and simple. This is a nuance, but an important technical one: There is a spreading ratio definition in SS that is one of the formal identifiers of spread spectrum vs other modulation techniques.

Re: [digitalradio] What is here Spread Spectrum and why and what is not?

2010-06-02 Thread KH6TY
Rein, You can decide for yourself if ROS is spread spectrum or not, just be observing it with any audio spectrum analyzer, or program like fldigi or Digipan that has a waterfall. Just observe the behavior with data and without data at idle and you will see. You find that the carriers of the

[digitalradio] MT63 is NOT spread spectrum!

2010-06-02 Thread KH6TY
MT63 is PSK, and if you go to this link http://f1ult.free.fr/DIGIMODES/MULTIPSK/MT63_en.htm you can see how the carriers are fixed in frequency and not random in frequency. In fact, the description of MT63 is, DBPSK on 64 carrier tones. The tones are separated by 7.81 Hz for the 500 Hz

Re: [digitalradio] What is here Spread Spectrum and why and what is not?

2010-06-02 Thread KH6TY
Trevor, I was not privy to the names of the engineers - only told in confidence by one of the group that it was done. There is no report, and Dan Henderson is the ARRL spokesman who relayed the information to hams. That finding was also published on the ARRL website. This is all I can say

Re: [digitalradio] What is here Spread Spectrum and why and what is not?

2010-06-02 Thread KH6TY
Dave, The answer to your question is no for MT63, as it is nearly just as wide as ROS 16 baud, but will stop decoding at -8 dB S/N for the 50 wpm mode, Contestia 1000/64 at -13 dB S/N at 30 wpm, and Olivia slower at 15 wpm, but probably around -15 dB S/N. PSK31. PSK31 works down to -11.5 dB

Re: [digitalradio] HRD

2010-06-02 Thread Andy obrien
Version 5 is fine. On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:09 PM, ac5pw10 ac5p...@yahoo.com wrote: Can anyone tell me which is better to use now ver4.2 or go on ahead and go with ver 5.0 that is still listed as beta on the HRD site. 73, Chuck AC5PW

Re: [digitalradio] What is here Spread Spectrum and why and what is not?

2010-06-02 Thread KH6TY
Trevor, Just to clarify, the FCC defines modes by emission types and other things, such as if SS is allowed, and where. It is the operator who must follow the FCC regulations, and he has no legal right to decide whether or not HIS judgement is the one to follow, or if he follows the

[digitalradio] Very Strange and Strong Signal [1 Attachment]

2010-06-02 Thread CT1QK
*[Attachment(s) from CT1QK included below] ALO to All I am listening now 11.00 UTC a very strong sinal since 7.175 to 7.185 more or less 10 kc wide with 59+30 db on the sstv frequencies I join a waterfall pic. Can someone tell me what kind of signal could it be? CT1QK *Attachment(s) from