Re: [digitalradio] FCC - Spread Spectrum NPRM

2010-03-18 Thread Jose A. Amador
El 18/03/2010 18:11, KH6TY escribió: Extensive tests on 70cm using ROS 16 baud spread spectrum have been disappointing. ROS appears to be unable to survive the Doppler shift and Doppler induced flutter so prevalent on that band. The hope was that ROS 16 baud would make traditional

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Question for experts

2010-03-10 Thread Jose A. Amador
El 10/03/2010 7:57, g4ilo escribió: What does ROS gain by using SS over another mode that carries the same amount of data at the same speed using the same bandwidth and the same number of tones but uses an entirely predictable method of modulation? Processing gain. Signals correlated with

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Question for experts

2010-03-10 Thread Jose A. Amador
El 10/03/2010 10:51, KH6TY escribió: Jose, If you were going to design a mode that filled 2200 Hz, but did not use SS, and was as sensitive as possible in that bandwidth, how would you do it? Tough question. I believe that on HF the best solution so far is Pactor-III It would have to be

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Question for experts

2010-03-09 Thread Jose A. Amador
El 09/03/2010 17:11, rein...@ix.netcom.com escribió: Hello Jose, Multiple Frequency Shift Keying, OK, but you really did not answer my question, I think. Suppose I replaced the modulation device with a filtered piano ( no harmonics ) a microphone. I am serious, trying to find out the

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Question for experts

2010-03-09 Thread Jose A. Amador
El 09/03/2010 21:15, rein...@ix.netcom.com escribió: Sorry Ralph, I did not read the header. 3 Rein W6SZ -Original Message- From: Ralph Moweryku...@yahoo.com Sent: Mar 10, 2010 12:25 AM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: Question for

Re: [digitalradio] Re: JT65A harmonics

2010-03-07 Thread Jose A. Amador
El 06/03/2010 14:53, Rein A escribió: Hello Jose, I always set the sound card volume, the modulation, that when changing the volume setting, the output of the transmitter will follow in a linear fashion. This is very important in particular for WSPR and WSPR-QSO modes. 73 Rein W6SZ I do

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL/FCC Announcement about ROS

2010-03-07 Thread Jose A. Amador
El 06/03/2010 19:44, iv3nwv escribió: Jose, if you are referring to me I'm not saying that theoretically it is correct to use as much bandwidth as possible. This is a conclusion you have drawn on your own. Using a 100 kHz bandwith to communicate information at a rate of 1 bit/s could by

Re: [digitalradio] Re: IF someone PURPOSELY has tried to mislead me

2010-03-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
No, that is no secret, he has no callsign. 73, Jose A. Amador, CO2JA --- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:59:50 + (GMT) From: jose alberto nieto ros nietoro...@yahoo.es Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: Consensus? Is ROS Legal in US?` To: Jose A. Amador ama...@electrica.cujae.edu.cu In-Reply-To: 4b848deb.9080

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL/FCC Announcement about ROS

2010-03-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
El 06/03/2010 4:49, rein...@ix.netcom.com escribió: I thought, that there has to be a direct specific connection between the transmitter and the receiver on how to retrieve the info from the spread spectrum. ( SS for dummies ) This makes it useful for the militairy, for who it was originally

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL/FCC Announcement about ROS

2010-03-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
I agree with Nino, theoretically it is correct to use as much bandwidth as possible, 3 kHz in the ROS case, but due to the small spreading, the ROS signal does not have a negligble level compared to others on the channel, so it is a halfbreed, it has spread spectrum characteristics, but does

Re: [digitalradio] The cost of digital mode interfaces

2010-03-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
El 06/03/2010 8:34, Andy obrien escribió: I was helping a ham get set-up for digital modes recently and turned to the issue of interfaces for digital modes. I researched the price for a Rigblaster Pro and was shocked that they sell for $299. My friend settled for another interface that cost

Re: [digitalradio] What is SS? Senor Ros is not an honest person !

2010-03-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Arnaldo Coro acoro33...@yahoo.com wrote: So, amigos at digital radio , my advise , and that's what I am going to do, is to alert ROS users of the possibility that the author of the software may even be attempting to use it for other purposes that are not

Re: [digitalradio] A question about spread spectrum

2010-03-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
El 06/03/2010 9:01, KH6TY escribió: The other possible problem is wide-spreading spread spectrum. There was a failed attempt about 5 years ago by the ARRL HSMM (High Speed Multi-Media) proponents to allow spread spectrum on the HF bands with the argument that the signal is spread so widely,

Re: [digitalradio] JT65A harmonics

2010-03-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
El 06/03/2010 11:28, g4ilo escribió: I was listening down around 14.077, just above some slow FSK mode which I think is JT65A. The JT65A was tuned quite low pitched in my receiver, and I could clearly see images of it over to the right. Judging by the spacing of the image tones I was seeing

Re: [digitalradio] JT65A harmonics

2010-03-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
No, and sorry if I misled anyone. I do have both WSJT and MultiPSK, I nowadays use MultiPSK mostly for HF, but I have actually not come across such a case particularly with JT65. Of course it has been more than usual for some particular ops on 14070, but in spite of the apparent simplicity,

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: GTOR- has anyone tried this?

2010-02-23 Thread Jose A. Amador
: 14109.7088. Yahoo! Groups Links -- MSc. Ing. Jose Angel Amador Fundora Profesor Auxiliar Departamento de Telecomunicaciones Facultad de Ingenieria Electrica, CUJAE Calle 114 #11901 e/ 119 y 127 Marianao 19390, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba Tel: (53 7) 266-3445 Email: amador

Re: [digitalradio] Curious sound card modes question -

2010-02-22 Thread Jose A. Amador
Nothing is altered. In a SSB transmitter, amplitudes are scaled (usually UP) and frequencies just shifted. So, if audio tones change frequency, RF tones do likewise. 73, Jose, CO2JA --- El 22/02/2010 18:04, John escribió: So as to not continue growing the ROS legality discussion even

Re: [digitalradio] A closer look at ROS]]

2010-02-21 Thread Jose A. Amador
ROS is one voice channel wide, it seems to have been conceived for a 3 kHz wide voice channel, as usual with SSB radios. Its width is comparable with accepted modes like MT63 or Olivia xx:2000. It is not an automated mode, it is meant for keyboarding. Its spectrum spreading is hardly the way

Re: [digitalradio] Puppy Linux anyone ?

2009-12-27 Thread Jose A. Amador
I installed both the Puppy and Knoppix versions and did very well from hard disk, as far as you can go with a Live CD. Particularly, Knoppix worked very well with Wine and Windows software. It was a nice experience. 73, Jose, CO2JA -- Rein Couperus escribió: Russell, As soon as

Re: [digitalradio] Nominations for 2009 Digitalradio Awards needed

2009-12-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
I also agree. Please count my vote for Patrick. Jose, CO2JA --- Warren Moxley escribió: Patrick is the greatest! I 2nd that nomination. --- On *Sun, 12/6/09, Ian Wade G3NRW /g3...@yahoo.co.uk/* wrote: From: Ian Wade G3NRW g3...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Nominations for

Re: [digitalradio] Is there a convention for stereo phone plugs?

2009-11-27 Thread Jose A. Amador
Look for The Hardware Book, by Joakim Ögren in http://www.hardwarebook.net/. It is a manual for many connectors, cables and buses, including PC's and home audio and video. And yes, there is a standard, the tip is the left channel. 73, José, CO2JA --- Chris Robinson escribió: Tip is

Re: [digitalradio] RSID numbers

2009-10-23 Thread Jose A. Amador
I have not used MixW in a long time and my memories might be a bit innacurate, but in MixW you set the basic modulation and choose the arguments in a cascading menu. Say, you choose RTTY, and in the modem configuration you choose shift and speed. On PSK you may choose the signalling speed, and

Re: [digitalradio] QRV RFSM-8000 tonight

2009-10-11 Thread Jose A. Amador
I called and beaconed using v. 0.536 on 7077.0 KHz USB and nothing happened. Jose, CO2JA obrienaj escribió: I will be operating RFSM-8000 tonight around to 0200 probably around 7077 or 14077 depending on conditions. I will beacon occasionally and try to remember the baud rate

Re: [digitalradio] pse help id this mode

2009-09-07 Thread Jose A. Amador
Marco, I usually run MultiPSK 4.14 for JT65, so, just press the proper button (JT65), select JT65A, left click on the sync tone (the extreme left limit of the signal on the waterfall). Besides, your computer must be synchronized to UTC somehow (from the Internet, a GPS, or a radio standard

Re: [digitalradio] Talking JT65A via Multipsk

2009-09-07 Thread Jose A. Amador
I do that a lot, particularly when I put that screen on the background to do something else on the computer. Very useful !! Jose, CO2JA --- Andrew O'Brien escribió: Just a reminder, with Multipsk and in JT65 modes, try clicking on the VOCALIZATION button. With that pressed (and your

Re: [digitalradio] WINMOR

2009-08-24 Thread Jose A. Amador
Warren Moxley escribió: I don't think he knew it was not ready for prime time since he has a real Pactor III TNC. It still looks to me that your are pretty much stuck without this piece of hardware if you really need to do WinLink via HF. It looks to me that WinLink is great for guys at

Re: [digitalradio] flarq compatible modes

2009-08-13 Thread Jose A. Amador
Dave, Is the beacon interval OK? Wouldn't it better be 30 MINUTES? I wonder, because I used to run beacons every 10 minutes on packet. Less than that could be considered antisocial by some people... :-( 73, Jose, CO2JA --- David Freese escribió: for example: MT63-500 requires flarq be set

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Soliciting suggestions

2009-08-12 Thread Jose A. Amador
Just one more comment, being on agreement with the previous postings... on a linear transponder (as a SSB transceiver becomes usually on HF between your antenna and your soundcard) just rock the transceiver's dial to make the tones fall in the proper place in the spectrum. FLdigi has a

Re: [digitalradio] Re: More RSID - PLEASE!

2009-07-25 Thread Jose A. Amador
The difference here is that a helper signal has been added, same as with SSTV, but which is only sent at the start of the transmission. That is essentially different from the raw, bare signal with no ID. A new situation, to be fair. 73, Jose, CO2JA Simon (HB9DRV) escribió: FWIW SSTV has

Re: [digitalradio] Need help with PSK-31 and my antenna tuner

2009-07-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
It all shows a severe electromagnetic incompatibility in your shack. Check if all goes OK with dummy load, both at the HF radio and at the tuner output. If all goes OK with a dummy load, then you may have RF feedback (bad) into your power line, that feeds all the faulty equipment. It is

Re: [digitalradio] Digital modes and old husband's tales

2009-07-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
It seems that the wheel has to be rediscovered periodically. For me, the solution is to use a PEP wattmeter and always run the output power slightly below the clipping level, where the meter needle advances no more. This point may be different on different bands. Just identify the clipping

Re: [digitalradio] Possible Purchase

2009-07-12 Thread Jose A. Amador
For many reasons I built my own and I feel it is foolish not to use an optocoupler when you already use two transformers. I am not happy with less than that. I use soundcard input and output with stereo miniplugs and serial port keying with a DB9 female connector. I use another female DB9 for

Re: [digitalradio] . . . the other digital mode

2009-06-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
Isn't hand sent Morse Code a jittery PAM / PWM combo? A computer can generate a less jittery code. But machine reception is something else. PAM is the simplest, but the worst to decode reliably digital modulation in the presence of noise and interference, which are the rule at least on HF.

Re: [digitalradio] PSK-ARQ versus ALE-400

2009-05-27 Thread Jose A. Amador
I wonder what kind of investment is required. It has as many points as possible in common with sound card modes and only requires MultiPSK as terminal program. If I am not asking for a comparison between apples and oranges (I am not entirely convinced right now... 8-) ), maybe Tony could

Re: [digitalradio] Re: PACTERM 98

2009-05-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
Not necessarily so if the disk is damaged. gkar2000 wrote: The easiest thing might be to borrow a USB floppy drive and install it from there. Mike kc9doa --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Casey Bell jc130b_...@... wrote: I have a registered copy of PACTERM 98, I'm not trying to

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Ready for Q15X25 packet test ...

2009-05-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
Exactly. With the prevailing bad propagation (and maybe the increased noise levels around my QTH) it is rare lately that P III can go into fourth gear or higher... And I did not have good luck with Q15X25. It was more tha five years ago, and I blamed my old computer... 73, Jose, CO2JA Rick

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Cartoon Charcters

2009-05-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
To send a smiling face 8-) , you just send a number eight, followed by a dash and a closing parenthesis sign. The roots are in the newsgroups mails, more than 15 years ago, before anyone had the idea to translate the literal signs (emoticons) into yellow smiling faces and such (seems those

Re: [digitalradio] TAK-Tenna

2009-04-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
I would advise you to check http://www.antennex.com for some past articles about the TakTenna. 73, Jose, CO2JA --- Larry Kebel wrote: I was reading up on the TAK-Tenna and found that it might just be the antenna I am looking for. Check out www.Tak-Tenna.com But, all the info I get is

Re: [digitalradio] The usual OS Flame war thread....

2009-04-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
Per wrote: Hi, I know, I've not always kept my mouth shut either but it never leads to any good in the end. As we are hams we should have an antenna flame war instead ;-) (I like verticals ;-)) 73 de Per, sm0rwo Agreed 8-) 73, Jose, CO2JA Linux User # 91155

Re: [digitalradio] Newbie question

2009-04-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
deadgoose38 wrote: Hear a digital signal -- maybe 8+ tones. Starts with a low one, then shifts to series of single ones at a higher frequency, then returns to the base tone. What am I listening to? JT65 Will DM780 decode it? No, that I know. If not, what? WSJT, MultiPSK 73, Jose,

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Bandwidth v Shift in RTTY ?

2009-03-27 Thread Jose A. Amador
Not exactly. You must add the upper and lower keying sidebands spacing to the upper and lower tones to get an aproximate idea of the occupied bandwidth. The sidebands lie at half the signalling speed around the carriers, and the keying harmonics, whose level and width depends on the

Re: [digitalradio] Re: illinoisdigitalham?

2009-02-18 Thread Jose A. Amador
Some members of another group I am a member too felt harrassed and sent a protest. Sometimes we got too many announcements and no real news, so it became tiresome. Most mails were pdf's with large detailed images, which was quite a burden for slow modems. 73, Jose, CO2JA --- Andrew O'Brien

Re: [digitalradio] The perfect mode

2009-02-15 Thread Jose A. Amador
That's not me ! I wanted to stress the point that we have two seemingly different needs: one for keyboarding, which is OK with a smaller character set, and a full 8 bit word mode for data, that could be used instead of the old packet modems. As usual, each one might carry a different name or

Re: [digitalradio] new -a few questions.

2009-02-07 Thread Jose A. Amador
m3hxe wrote: Hi may I bother you with some questions.I would like to try psk31 and plan to buy a kit interface soon. My problem is this,I am restricted to 10 watts output due to licence conditions and use a Trio ts-130s. I use an alc mod to reduce the power output to 10 watts by applying

Re: [digitalradio] Re: MFTTY On Air Sensitivity

2009-02-07 Thread Jose A. Amador
Norbert, I am taking the license of answering before Tony does, so look for the Pathsim docs (AE4JY). There is another german program, IONOS, which is another HF path simulator. I have just played with them, but actually done nothing serious enough. 73, Jose, CO2JA --- Norbert Pieper

Re: [digitalradio] Windows Vista for digital mode soundcard applications ?

2009-02-03 Thread Jose A. Amador
W6IDS wrote: The only other issue I did have was a lack of backward compatibility with PK-232 software, XPwin, that I used on an older XP computer before it crashed three months ago, or so. I found a program that helped with XP and some DOS programs, but I don't know if it would work OK in

Re: [digitalradio] ALE400 and 141a messaging

2009-01-31 Thread Jose A. Amador
Based on what I know, for SMTP, JNOS may be an option at less than 300 baud, i.e., 100-110 baud or PAX, using MultiPSK as soundcard modem. I have not tested any of it yet. I have had no time and possibilities to test it so far. JNOS can use FBB compression or LZW compressed SMTP on any of its

Re: [digitalradio] ALE400 and 141a messaging

2009-01-31 Thread Jose A. Amador
Alan Barrow wrote: Yes, I understand it works. FBB works OK on HF because once you are logged in, it's not that interactive. But you still have 2-3 turnarounds before you send the initial message, etc. FBB protocol has a feature I find very valuable: the Z-modem style resume. JNOS had not

Re: [digitalradio] SOFTWARE?

2009-01-03 Thread Jose A. Amador
Maybe one of the latest versions of Hamcom, or Mix 2.19 or 2.21 could be configured to make your boxes run with a PC and PC software. I did some 12 years ago, using a KPC 2 as dumb modem and homebrew FSK modems (TU's) on my old 386 and 486's using the serial and parallel ports. Don't ask me

Re: [digitalradio] PSK distortion effects theory

2009-01-03 Thread Jose A. Amador
kf4hou wrote: This is only a theory , but i like to have some input on this. I have noticed on using bpsk31 some stations can be very wide at times. I can give them a report they are wide and they also tell me I am wide. but the next day they look clean to me and they have not touched

Re: [digitalradio] Signalink USB Problems

2009-01-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
Seemingly you are experiencing clipping/distortion/overload from a too high audio input, judging the fact that you are getting strong harmonics in the passband. 73 HNY, Jose, CO2JA --- n4hra wrote: I am having a problem with a new Signalink USB depending on how strong a station is I get

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Specification of Frequency for Net Announcement

2008-12-31 Thread Jose A. Amador
Jose A. Amador wrote: Pactor 3 MUST be USB. To remain compatible. If EVERYBODY used LSB, there would not be any problems, of course. Just a thought after I reread this from the list... Jose, CO2JA VI Conferencia Internacional de Energía Renovable, Ahorro de Energía y Educación Energética 9

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Specification of Frequency for Net Announcement

2008-12-30 Thread Jose A. Amador
I use USB for RTTY, and reverse in the terminal program. That keeps mark and space in the right relative places. 73, Jose, CO2JA John Becker, WØJAB wrote: At 02:23 PM 12/30/2008, JONATHAN WALLEN wrote in part: All data modes should be in USB. True except for RTTY. VI Conferencia

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Specification of Frequency for Net Announcement

2008-12-30 Thread Jose A. Amador
Due to its baseband coding, it does not matter what sideband you use in packet. It is only relevant to published dial frequencies when tuning some spectrum chunk. I did use USB for many years with the only consequence that dial frequencies were different. Same happens with Pactor or Pactor

Re: [digitalradio] Broken PC question

2008-12-22 Thread Jose A. Amador
Andrew O'Brien wrote: Please excuse the non-radio question... We have a PC that just stopped working, looking for some possible ideas. The PC (a desk top) was knocked over by a frustrated teenager , when plugged back in the power light comes back on but nothing is seen by the monitor , no

Re: [digitalradio] RE:Packet radio with sound card

2008-12-18 Thread Jose A. Amador
this could be the next big thing ... 73, Rick, KV9U Jose A. Amador wrote: I can understand that procedure in sake of simplicity, but hardly an efficient one. Obviously, ARQ should be automatic. VI Conferencia Internacional de Energía Renovable, Ahorro de Energía y Educación Energética

Re: [digitalradio] RE:Packet radio with sound card

2008-12-17 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rick W wrote: SCAMP had no problem at all with the switching times from the testing I did. As a former Amtor and Pactor user from years earlier, it proved to me that my concerns about switching were unwarranted. Cold switching (no RF until contacts are closed, or opened while RF is flowing)

[digitalradio] Programs for soundcard packet, 9600 baud ?

2008-12-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
I would like to receive suggestions about what may be available for G3RUH encoded 9600 baud packet, using Windows XP and Linux. I would like to try the digital amateur satellites sometime and I have no 9600 baud TNC available. In general, I would appreciate pointers for sound card packet

Re: [digitalradio] Programs for soundcard packet, 9600 baud ?

2008-12-14 Thread Jose A. Amador
Thank you, Toby. Yes, that can be an option. 73, Jose, CO2JA --- Toby Burnett wrote: I've used winpack and AGWPE sound card driver with success before on my local BBS nodes. Not sure if this is what your after. Works quite well. Now unfortunately I'm not in range of my nearest Node

Re: [digitalradio] Christmas and Happy New Year 2009

2008-12-12 Thread Jose A. Amador
Quite possibly! But at this date, with the Summer Solstice so close, who is going to blame him? I see nothing wrong in having a few COOOLD beers while tanning on the beach ... 8-) Hector, muchas cosas buenas para tí y los tuyos, 73, Jose, CO2JA --- John Gleichweit wrote: Feliz Navidad y

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Odd noise in receiver

2008-12-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
It might be a switching PSU on standby mode. I know one TV set that cycles in a similar way (producing some 'reverse TVI), even when the numbers are not the same, it starts, charges the main capacitor, goes into standby and restarts when its voltage diminishes under a certain threshold. 73,

Re: [digitalradio] Re: identify this mode?

2008-12-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
interested in doing their own tests and publishing the results. 73, Jose, CO2JA - Tooner wrote: --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Jose A. Amador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's OK for aural reference, but a .wav cilp is required for decoding. Jose, I gave thought to what you said

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Odd signal 14171

2008-10-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
I am copying it some 20 dB out of the noise here in Havana at 21:55 UTC on 14173 center. It has 8 threads, plus some other two that show up on the side, at much lower intensity, possibly IMD products, as their amplitude seems to track the larger peaks excursions. The tones are 875, 900, 925,

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Odd signal 14171

2008-10-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
Might be coming from Europe. I was hearing an EI station stirring up a pileup one kHz up. The EI station was keeping this signal out of his USB passband, so I assume it was a QRM source for him ... 8-) So, this signal coming from beyond the skip zone in EI. 73, Jose, CO2JA --- Andrew

Re: [digitalradio] Contestia 1K vs MT63?

2008-10-11 Thread Jose A. Amador
Tony wrote: Patrick, I get the same minimum SNR for Contestia but can squeeze -8db out of MT63 when using DM780 and IZ8BLY. Yesterday I had no luck with DM780 while monitoring Tony's QSO's on 14106. Of course, I have not calibrated DM780, so that is no surprise. Propagation was not

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ASCII ?

2008-10-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
jhaynesatalumni wrote: I guess some people thought it was a Big Deal, but there were lots of reasons why it didn't go anywhere. I'd say the overriding one is that with 60 wpm Baudot RTTY the bit length is 22 milliseconds. With 100 wpm ASCII 110 baud the bit length is 9 milliseconds. That

Re: [digitalradio] ASCII ?

2008-10-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
John Becker, WØJAB wrote: Still a lot of machines out there still working after all these years. Gee it would be so nice if the software writers would do the same. John, W0JAB John, It is the ongoing fashion, nothing else. Life cycles are shorter nowadays. There are many old american

Re: [digitalradio] Re: CSS releases EmComm Ops Radio Software for Packet Radio

2008-10-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
It may have been that you were awake while Snow White slept... 73, Jose, CO2JA -- Andrew O'Brien wrote: Is my brain dead? I may be missing the point of this product, I read the manual and it says PSK31 is a new mode and it references 20 year old concepts . Seems like a step backwards

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ASCII ?

2008-10-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
? --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com mailto:digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com, Jose A. Amador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but there was a GM - Microsoft controversy that ended with a caustic reply from the GM's President that explained it too well. That's interesting, because I think

Re: [digitalradio] Pactor III licensing...

2008-09-21 Thread Jose A. Amador
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a KAM XL and a fully tricked out PK232. can either of them be licensed for Pactor III? what is the cost of upgrading to II and to III? thanks chas k5dam No, it is only for the SCS made boxes. For license details, check http://www.scs-ptc.com 73,

Re: [digitalradio] MT63 freq ?

2008-09-16 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rick W wrote: I don't know enough about ionospheric disturbances to know if you can only have Doppler (such as polar flutter) without having multipath at the same time. The only way that comes to my mind that you can get rid of multipath is by just receiving a single ray. To achieve it, a

Re: [digitalradio] KISS feature of Multipsk (test version)

2008-09-16 Thread Jose A. Amador
Patrick Lindecker wrote: Hello to all, The KISS feature is available in a test version. A next new test version (proposed in the Multipsk reflector) will improve this feature tested through UI-VIEW for instance. There won't be any licence necessary for this feature, so it will be open to

Re: [digitalradio] VOX not for ARQ modes

2008-08-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
Seems we are reaching the age of the crippled PC. For a desktop there should still be a chance of adding a serial port PCI card. I have never used the parport for PTT so far, and it seems I never will... USB is adequate for most common PC jobs, but not for interfacing radios without some

Re: [digitalradio] Re: signalink sL+

2008-08-26 Thread Jose A. Amador
Off list. Don't want to spill gasoline on the fire. Does your Signalink use a COM port at all? My interface is homebrew, and uses one COM port to derive PTT from. Packet is tolerant of losing part of the flag bits, maybe pactor too, but AMTOR does not tolerate delays at all. It has been years

Re: [digitalradio] Path Simulator Test - PSK FEC31

2008-08-21 Thread Jose A. Amador
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Re: [digitalradio] AX.25 vs Something New

2008-08-08 Thread Jose A. Amador
As I understood in a quick reading, this is aiming at keeping the modem and adding intelligent redundancy, specially for beacons and telemetry. The older equipment just receives some more harmless digital rubbish, and could even receive the same packets with no improvements. Interesting,

Re: [digitalradio] AX.25 vs Something New

2008-08-07 Thread Jose A. Amador
Rud Merriam wrote: I suggest anyone interested in this topic start by reading http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/2504/http:zSzzSzpeople.qualcomm. com/karnz/papers/newlinkpaper.pdf/karn94toward.pdf by Phil Karn KA9Q. If anyone does not recognize his name or call then research him

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Has anyone looked into FPGA-based digitalmodes?

2008-08-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
Graham wrote: I really do not understand Graham's proposal: a narrow band spread spectrum system? I really need some more clarification about this.*** Ok may be a bit like calling a steam train a iron horse, dose the same thing but a little differently Spread spectrum : may not

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Has anyone looked into FPGA-based digitalmodes?

2008-08-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
Merriam K5RUD ARES AEC Montgomery County, TX http://TheHamNetwork.net -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jose A. Amador Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 1:54 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Has anyone looked into FPGA-based digitalmodes?

2008-08-06 Thread Jose A. Amador
Paul L Schmidt, K9PS wrote: I've got to agree with Jose here. AX.25 works pretty well on VHF, but falls apart on HF. But AX.25 is a link-layer protocol, not the whole suite of stuff that got crammed into a TNC. AX.25 may have been derived from the X.25 landline protocol, but using the

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Has anyone looked into FPGA-based digitalmodes?

2008-08-05 Thread Jose A. Amador
I have been playing with what has been available around, and the past august, I devoted quite a bit of time to receive DRM. It is not easy, in spite of the high powers the broadcasters use, and the more succesful ones are the less greedy ones. I had far better results with RNZI and its 17

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Has anyone looked into FPGA-based digitalmodes?

2008-08-05 Thread Jose A. Amador
There are multiple examples of reconfigurable devices that might prove viable and not too costly. I am certainly not advocating against sound card modes, or for high cost hardware. For me, hardware might prove harder to get than software, but I just won't allow that fact to blind me. Don't

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Has anyone looked into FPGA-based digitalmodes?

2008-08-05 Thread Jose A. Amador
/themixwgroup Yahoo! Groups Links -- MSc. Ing. Jose Angel Amador Fundora Profesor Auxiliar Departamento de Telecomunicaciones Facultad de Ingenieria Electrica, CUJAE Calle 114 #11901 e/ 119 y 127 Marianao 19390, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba Tel: (53 7) 266-3445 Email: amador

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Has anyone looked into FPGA-based digitalmodes?

2008-08-04 Thread Jose A. Amador
there, the HF digital network would already be using it and AX25 Packet would only be found on the VHF/UHF bands. But there isn't, so... 73 DE Charles Brabham, N5PVL [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - *From:* Jose A. Amador mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Has anyone looked into FPGA-based digital modes?

2008-08-03 Thread Jose A. Amador
I believe that both the AX.25 and the BBS model are OK, but that the packet channel coding is a disaster in the sense that a single erroneous bit trashes a frame. That fires up the retries chain that are so detrimental to the link capacity, and may sever it as well. Pactor does a _LOT_

Re: [digitalradio] Diagnosing issues with dropped PC

2008-07-21 Thread Jose A. Amador
Andrew O'Brien wrote: Please excuse the non-ham question but hopefully folks here will have an idea or two. One of my household PCs (not the ham PC thankfully) was dropped during a move to another room. Out spilled the memory cards, wireless PCI card, and the CPU heatsink fan. After

Re: [digitalradio] Olivia mode performance

2008-07-08 Thread Jose A. Amador
If I am allowed to summarize, if you don't own a PTC, at least give Olivia a try 8-) Impressive indeed, Tony. 73, Jose, CO2JA --- Tony wrote: All, Certainly is remarkable the way Olivia mode performs under adverse conditions. Was having trouble decoding VK2PN in PSK31 mode due to

Re: [digitalradio] dumb terminal software for packet

2008-07-05 Thread Jose A. Amador
Even when I have been away from packet for some time after being a sysop for some twelve years, I have the feeling, but still not the certainty that having MultiPSK to serve as a transparent dumb modem also would be a good thing. Creating a good packet terminal is not trivial, I used FBB for

Re: [digitalradio] DV Equalizer

2008-06-13 Thread Jose A. Amador
Tony, I am using VE3NEA's Voice Shaper for SSB, with good results. I have not used it for DV. I am using a cheap earphone / mic combo, also a good performer. I do not know the Romac EQ, and I doubt I'll try it if it is time limited. 73, Jose, CO2JA --- Tony wrote: All, Does anyone

Re: [digitalradio] Re: How to -- FDMDV Digital Voice Over HF

2008-06-04 Thread Jose A. Amador
Leslie Elliott wrote: Hi - New to FDMDV. I am trying to set up my rig for the mode, and can receive OK, but so far my set-up won't let me transmit. I'm using a FT-920 and a Signalink SL 1+ connected to the data port on the 920. I am using a outboard SoundBlaster USB soundcard, connected

Re: [digitalradio] Re: How to choose Olivia tone/bandwidth parameters -- an idea

2008-06-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
No, not at all. Just watching the waterfall. I do not remember the little details. Patrick has replied as well, and you can look for them at http://f6cte.free.fr/PAPERS.ZIP, download the ZIP file and extract RS_ID_English.DOC. 73, Jose, CO2JA Paul wrote: Jose, But does that mean you need

Re: [digitalradio] How to choose Olivia tone/bandwidth parameters -- an idea

2008-06-01 Thread Jose A. Amador
Interesting, but I believe it has already been done in MultiPSK with the RS ID codes sent in MFSK in the preamble. They seem to work well. I have used Video ID's and maybe your proposal is a bit more compact and readable that the usual video ID's. It should be tested out. I believe tha making

Re: [digitalradio] How to choose Olivia tone/bandwidth parameters -- an idea

2008-06-01 Thread Jose A. Amador
://www.obriensweb.com/sked Check our other Yahoo Groups http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlist/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contesting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup Yahoo! Groups Links -- MSc. Ing. Jose Angel Amador Fundora Profesor Auxiliar Departamento de

Re: [digitalradio] Re: CW - last resort?

2008-06-01 Thread Jose A. Amador
Even when I have nothing against DV, people have to recognize that it is not a QRP activity. I see quite a few signals I can never decode because they do not exceed the threshold. FDMDV is not PSK31. 73, Jose, CO2JA --- Jim Dear wrote: Amen, and hopefully someday soon, come into the 21st

Re: [digitalradio] Re: How to choose Olivia tone/bandwidth parameters -- an idea

2008-06-01 Thread Jose A. Amador
Paul, Some programs are capable of sending a Video ID using Hell, so, you can read the ID as a text preamble from the waterfall. MultiPSK also does send a RS ID using some codes sent as an MFSK preamble. FDMDV now does use the RS ID too, to help zero beating on the spectrum center. 73,

[digitalradio] Re: [olivia] Re: MultiPSK 4.8 doesn't decode all that great on Olivia

2008-05-12 Thread Jose A. Amador
garylinnrobinson wrote: I didn't do my comparison's on MixW and Olivia Aid - I did them with DM780 and just recently FLDigi on a separate computer but same sound feed from transceiver since FLDigi is on Linux. Same results. You can say it's just Gary but I don't believe it. And it is

[digitalradio] Any good, free programs for a PK-232?

2008-05-09 Thread Jose A. Amador
A friend of mine (CO2DC) got a bare, used DSP-2232 and was asking for free programs to run it. I have never owned a PK-232. Could anyone on the list suggest something to pass to my friend ? 73, Jose, CO2JA

Re: [digitalradio] USB - RS232 adapter for Vista 64bit?

2008-05-09 Thread Jose A. Amador
Is that Linux or plain old Solaris? Does Wine work with it? 73, Jose, CO2JA --- Rick wrote: Incidentally, I burned an ISO from the new OpenSolaris Live and that seemed much better than Linux variants in terms of image quality. Even could handle my high end HP tower with Nvidia chipset.

Re: [digitalradio] Any good, free programs for a PK-232?

2008-05-09 Thread Jose A. Amador
I guess that RTTY, AMTOR, etc. That's up to my friend, I will pass this to him. 73 thanks, Jose, CO2JA --- Dave AA6YQ wrote: That depends on what you’re interested in doing with your PK-232. WinWarbler supports your PK-232’s CW and RTTY modes. You can run RTTY with the MMTTY soundcard

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