I wrote the Hell-80 patch for GMFSK and Fldigi way back in the dark ages, based 
on specs I found on, if I recall correctly, Murray ZL1BPU's website. The 
initial testing was done against MultiPSK, the only other implementation I 
could find at the time, and worked fine. The code for one or the other has 
probably changed since then.

I will forward this to the FeldHell Club's reflector to see what opinions crop 
up over there...

-Joe, N8FQ (FH0082)

On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:03:38 -0500
"Joseph A. Counsil" <counsil at rollanet.org> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I don't know if this is a bug, or a difference of opinion...
> 
> I picked up an RSID this afternoon from someone and it identified the 
> signal as Hell80.  So, I went to his frequency and the Hell80 mode, and 
> found that his two-tone split was 300 Hz.  The two-tone split with 
> FLDigi 3.13AH (WinXP Pro) is 480 Hz.  I was able to carry on a crippled 
> QSO with the fellow enough to coordinate going to Olivia and asked him 
> what software he was running - it was MultiPSK.  After our QSO I opened 
> my copy of MultiPSK (which I NEVER use - but keep only for reference) 
> and see that it is indeed set up for 300 Hz tone spacing, with no 
> mechanism for changing it that I could find.  Also, there is no 
> mechanism in FLDigi (that I could find) for changing the tone spacing.  
> The only specification I could find was on the FLDigi web page 
> indicating a tone spacing of 480 Hz, with a total bandwidth of 800 Hz.  
> Interestingly, the MultiPSK page also indicates an 800 Hz bandwidth, but 
> does not state what the tone spacing should be.
> 
> My conclusion is that MultiPSK is in error, but I can't prove that since 
> I did not find any other independent sources for what the Hell80 
> standard should be.  Can anyone shed some light on this matter?  Does 
> MultiPSK need to be fixed?  Does there need to be a tone-spacing 
> parameter in FLDigi to add flexibility to be compatible with MultiPSK?  
> Not worth messing with?
> 
> 73,
> -Joe-
> 
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