Hi Rick and John I am currently running an RFSM8000 mail server at various times for testing I run it on 14109.5 for about 4 hrs some days from about 0001 utc utc to 0400 utc by arrangement During our days here it runs on 7183 daily afternoons and 3637.5 of an evening I do have a full featured RADIOAMATEUR licence I will quote from the site
************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ http://rfsm2400.radioscanner.ru/ permanent FULL-FEATURED ACTIVATION KEY (for free trial RADIOAMATEUR license) - price 180 USD, but in January only - 60 USD! Full-featured license and full-featured activation key allows using of ALL features of RFSM-8000 without ANY limits. Mail-client activation key allows using all features, except mail-server mode (mail-client ONLY). In January only! Unique chance to buy permanent FULL-FEATURED VERSION at a price MAIL-CLIENT VERSION - 60 USD. Just 60 USD for a full-featured activation key that allows using all features (including mail-server mode) of RFSM - 8000 without any limits. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** What this means is that the software is available for $60.00 US (including the Mail Server facilities) for the month of January Normally you would only get the Mail Client software for this price Yes it is backward compatible with the RFSM2400 program for file transfer and local email server services Yes - RFSM2400 Ver .498 is available as Freeware for amateur use from http://rfsm2400.radioscanner.ru/ What I can say is that the software works very well as a mail server for e-mail from Remote stations to internet addresses and also from Internet addresses to Remote Stations and works very well for file transfer at high speed up to 6670 bits per second - this is not often achieved on HF but speeds of 4000 and sometimes 5333 bits per second can be achieved under good conditions on 20m band and speeds up to 2666 bits per second on 80m and 40m bands is quite common and sometimes even higher - depending on conditions On tests that we are doing here it is quite comparable with P3 for transfer speed (under the same conditions) It will not work as far into the noise as P3 but it will hold a link and still transfer data in quite noisy situations Two of the stations testing here have P3 modems and I quote figures supplied by them on tests they have done on both P3 and RFSM8000 Yes in the setup you can configure most radios for use with CAT control for PTT keying (providing you know the required strings to enter into the fields - also serial port PTT - and Vox is available BTW I have no financial interest in the Software or the Company other than that I have been doing on air testing for the RFSM-IDE Group along with a group of other VK amateurs - and enjoyed the testing also Regards Les VK2DSG From: Rick Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 8:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [digitalradio] RFSM8000 Hi John, Can you tell us anything about how this technology is working out? From what I can see from the web site, it replaces and is backward compatible to RFSM2400. Although we can not use it here in the U.S. on the frequency you selected, it could be used to send images in the phone/image portions of the U.S. sub bands. What is your feel for the robustness or lack of it, etc.? The waveforms appear to be based upon the MIL STD modes although some may be modified. Have you registered the program? Or plan to if the 30 day test has not run out? The cost seems very high to me at $290 USD for the pro version, but even the $180 USD price for the "ham" version is still impractical for many to purchase unless they could actually use it, and it would work as well as say, Pactor 3 or close to it. Is the "old" RFSM2400 program available for free ham use? I now have the capability to key a COM port PTT mode so could use the older program. I see that the new program claims to support CI-V. Any thoughts on this? Anyone else who has experience with either of these programs? 73, Rick, KV9U John Bradley wrote: > > at 20:00Z > > Beaconing 14103.0 RFSM8000, non-standard modulation , 60sec intervals, > for the next 2 hours > > > > John > > VE5MU > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.6/1229 - Release Date: 1/17/2008 > 11:12 AM >
