[digitalradio] New release (4.1.1) of MULTIPSK + Clock 1.6

[Patrick Lindecker]

New release (4.1.1) of MULTIPSK RX/TX: PSK10/BPSK31-63-125/QPSK31-63-125/CHIP (64/128)/PSKFEC31/PSKAM10-31-50/PSK63F - PSK220F + DIGISSTV "Run"/CW/CCW/CCW-FSK/THROB/THROBX/MFSK8/ MFSK16 (+ SSTV)/OLIVIA/CONTESTIA/RTTYM/VOICE/DominoF DF/DominoEX/MT63/RTTY 45/75/ RTTY 50+SYNOP+SHIP/ASCII/AMTOR FEC/ PACKET 300-1200 + APRS+ DIGISSTV "Run"/ PACTOR 1-FEC/PAX+PAX2 + APRS/FELD HELL/PSK HELL/FM HELL (105-245)/HELL 80/ HF-FAX/SSTV/ RX only: AMTOR ARQ/NAVTEX/RTTY 100/ DSP: Filters + CW binaural reception PSK Panoramic (BPSK31/BPSK63/PSKFEC31): RX 23 channels simultaneously CW Panoramic: RX 8 or 23 channels simultaneously RTTY Panoramic: RX 8 RTTY QSO decoded simultaneously on 22 channels Programmation of Multipsk reception TCP/IP digital modem CLOCK 1.6 (FRANCE-INTER, DCF77, HBG, RUGBY, WWVB, WWV, WWVH, CHU, GPS) Hello to all Ham and SWL, The new releases of MULTIPSK (4.1.1) and CLOCK (1.6) are in my Web site (http://f6cte.free.fr) and, also, the 1.0.1 version of MULTIDEM (several improvements and corrections of bugs). The main mirror site is Earl's, N8KBR: http://multipsk.eqth.org/index.html Another mirror site isTerry's: http://www.hamsoft.co.uk/ Multispk associated to Clock are freeware programs but with functions submitted to a licence (by user key). The main modifications of MULTIPSK 4.1.1 (+ CLOCK V. 1.6) are the following: 1) decoding by CLOCK (1.6) of the UTC time frames transmitted in RTTY 300 bauds by the radio station CHU of Canada (Ottawa), in short waves. The frequencies used by CHU are 3330, 7335 (preferably) and 14670 Khz, to be listened in AM. Thanks to a control system of the time frames, they are extremely reliable. The Space (2025 Hz) and Mark (2225 Hz) frequencies are audible, contrary to WWV/WWVH which carrier is at 100 Hz. So in "permanent" or in "portable", at a very long distance from Canada, the synchronization of a PC, through the CHU frames decoding, is easy and error-free. Note 1: CHU could stop time transmissions in April 2007... Note 2: the CHU decoding is free but the PC synchronization is submitted to licence. 2) Spot management (incoming and outgoing spots) through SpotCollector 3.7.0 (or more) and clusters See, at the end of this message, an extract of the help which abstracts the proposed functions and the different interfaces. 3) Reed-Solomon identifier for automatic detection of the digital mode and the frequency (automatic tuning). This identifier permits to, automatically, locate, any digital transmission done in one of the RX/TX modes handled by Multipsk (91 modes and sub-modes in 4.1.1 version). It is detected, in one hand, the used mode and, in the other hand, the central frequency of the identifier (which is also the central frequency of the transmission), with a precision of +/- 2.7 Hz. As soon as this identifier is received, Multipsk switches on the received mode and frequency and decodes immediatly the QSO in progress or the call (CQ). This identifier is transmitted in 1.4 sec and has a bandwidth of 172 Hz. Its detection is done down to a Signal to Noise ratio of -14 dB (without missing at -12 dB), so with a sensitivity equal or better than the one of the majority of the digital modes (RTTY, PSK31...). Note: for the programmers of coding/decoding softwares, I can send a DLL (.DLL and .LIB) and a use example (Source and .EXE) either in Pascal (Delphi) or in C++. This will permit to propose the same functions as the ones that Multipsk proposes. 4) for computers under Windows XP, possibilty to read in the japanese charset (Shift-JIS) and to write with an IME editor, this for the complete (ANSI) modes: B/QPSK31/63/125, PSK63F, PSK220F, MFSK16, MFSK8, CHIP, Pactor1, Packet, Ascii in 8 bits, DominoEX and also for OLIVIA through the coding protocol UTF7. 5) modification of all the control signals to permit reading and writing in the east and central european languages, this for the complete (ANSI) modes: B/QPSK31/63/125, PSK63F, PSK220F, MFSK16, MFSK8, CHIP, Pactor1, Packet, Ascii in 8 bits, DominoEX 6) separation of the sound card input/output , 7) possibility to control the PAX and PAX2 connected modes through the TCP/IP link (Multipsk_client is now in version 2), For information, for all the Multipsk exotic modes (PSKFEC31, PSK10, PSKAM, PSK63F, PSK220F (+DIGISSTV), CCW-FSK, MFSK8, THROBX, DominoF, DominoEX, PAX2, CHIP, Voice...), I propose the QRP frequency: 14075 Khz USB (AF around 1000 Hz), at 17h00 UTC. 73 Patrick Presentation of the SpotCollector 3.7.0/Multipsk/Commander interface As Multipsk decodes many digital modes, it can be interesting for Hams to be able to easily transmit and receive spots on these modes. For this, Multipsk: * proposes a standard to display digital modes (mode: "OLIVIA", submode: "32-1000", for example, for the Olivia mode, 32 carriers, 1000 Hz bandwidth), * receive spots from SpotCollector and handle them, driving the transceiver frequency through Commander (from DXLAB suite, program created by Dave (AA6YQ)), * transmit outgoing spots (included "autospots", i.e spots bearing on about your own CQ) to a cluster through SpotCollector, using the frequency of the transceiver given by Commander. The basic diagrams of exchanges are the following: Outgoing spots Transceiver--->Commander--->Multipsk--->SpotCollector--->Cluster---> Internet (or Packet) Received spots Internet (or Packet)--->Cluster--->SpotCollector--->Multipsk--->Commander--->Transceiver So thanks to these programs and their interface, it is possible to rapidly give and receive pieces of information about digital QSO in progress. 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