[digitalradio] Russian «RADIO» RTTY WW Contest .
Russian «RADIO» RTTY WW Contest Starting 2004 this contest is moved to the first Saturday of September, contest period is decreased to 24 hours, contest logs are simplified and SOSB entry terms are clarified. Other contest rules are the same as they were for previous years. Please modify your contest calendar! Date: 00.00 – 24.00 UTC September 6, 2008 Bands: 10 – 80 meters, no WARC bands. Mode: RTTY, one contact with same station on each band is permitted. Entry: single OP – all bands, single OP – single band, multi OP – all bands – single TX, SWL. Single OP – single band stations may operate during contest on all bands and claim score only for one band. Contest exchange: Russian stations – RST plus two letters (oblast designator), all others – RST plus WAZ zone. Points: 5 points for QSO inside own continent, 10 for contacts outside own continent. Multiplier: Each Russian oblast and DXCC country give 1 point for multiplier on each band. Score: The sum of QSO points is multiplied by the sum of multiplier points to obtain the final contest score. Log: Cabrillo format logs are preferred but other ASCII logs are acceptable too. No dupe or multiplier lists are now required. E-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Please send logs as attachment and include your call-sign in «Subject» field. Address for paper logs is: «Radio» Magazine, Seliverstov per. 10, 107045 Moscow, Russia. The deadline for logs is October 1, 2007 (postmarked). Awards: The SOAB winner will be awarded with medal, MOAB winner – with plaque. Additional medals for SOSB entries may be issued if contest activity returns. Their runners up (2nd and 3d place) as well as country leaders (provided if their score is higher than 1/3 of the winner) will be awarded with contest certificates. Announce your digital presence via our Interactive Sked Page at http://www.obriensweb.com/sked Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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[digitalradio] Re: [NBEMSham] NBEMS opeation procedure
Please note that, in the flarq Help, "After a connection has been established the button label changes to 'Disconnect' and the text next to the diamond indicator will read CONNECTED. Pressing this button will then execute an orderly disconnect from the other station and return the program to the CONNECTED state... " Should read: After a connection has been established the button label changes to 'Disconnect' and the text next to the diamond indicator will read CONNECTED. Pressing this button will then execute an orderly disconnect from the other station and return the program to the DISCONNECTED state... We will be correcting the flarq Help file on the next release. Thanks for your understanding... 73, Skip KH6TY NBEMS Development Team
Re: [digitalradio] Re: NBEMS opeation procedure
You are welcome Andy. Also keep in mind that you two are much more than 300 miles apart and are going to experience QSB and even QRN that you would not have using NVIS antennas only 300 miles or less apart. As you know, noise arrives at low angles (see the explanation of why the Beverages are so quiet), and a NVIS antenna, about only 12 feet high, will discriminate against noise arriving at low angles, because its takeoff angle is almost straight up. In addition, propagation changes (QSB) affects the NVIS short-range communication much less than using a longer skip zone. Nevertheless, we did extensive tests and had many successful ARQ transfers over 500 miles or greater on 40m and 80m using MFSK16, and sometimes MFSK32, which is the best performing mode we have in the NBEMS suite for handling deep QSB fades and static crashes. It is just that those long circuits are never as solid as a NVIS circuit, so it is not a very good measure of NBEMS performance on either HF (up to 300 miles distant) or VHF (up to 100 miles distant), which would constitute the distances for almost any real emcomm situation. 73, Skip KH6TY NBEMS Development Team - Original Message - From: "Andrew O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:00 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: NBEMS opeation procedure Thank you Skip, this helps a lot. I was blindly sending beacons !!! Andy --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "kh6ty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To minimize interference to others and to have the most success with NBEMS, we wish for everyone to follow the prescribed contact procedure for using NBEMS. Here is an except from the Help in the Flarq application: > > Initiating an ARQ connect session > > > Start by sending a 'CQ NBEMS' or some similar unique way of indicating that you are seeking to send ARQ traffic. Do this from the digital modem program and not from flarq. The potential station for receiving your ARQ traffic will answer in the clear. Negotiate what digital mode you will use for the ARQ connection; ie: PSK-63, PSK-125, PSK-250, MFKS-16 etc. Then try that mode without ARQ to be sure that QRN and QSB will not seriously disrupt the connection. Ask the responding station to send an ARQ beacon using flarq. You will then see his ARQ callsign appear in the callsign window. > > Click the CONNECT button to connect with that station. The text next to the diamond will change to CONNECTING and remain that way during the connect time out period. During the connection process the CONNECT button will be disabled (greyed out). > > After a connection has been established the button label changes to 'Disconnect' and the text next to the diamond indicator will read CONNECTED. Pressing this button will then execute an orderly disconnect from the other station and return the program to the CONNECTED state... > > Blindly sending a beacon and waiting for a response is strongly discouraged! > > Please follow the above procedure so as to minimize interference to other users and to establish what mode is most suitable for ARQ transfers under the current conditions. Note that DominoEx and the PSK modes are intended to be used for VHF use and the MFSK modes for HF use. On VHF, when operating near the noise level, it is helpful to start with PSK63, as the idle signal stands out most clearly over the noise background, even if DominoEx modes will produce the most error-free copy, having a lower minimum S/N requirement. Then, once tuned in PSK63, shift to DominoEx 11 without changing the tuning. If the path S/N is sufficient to use the PSK modes, and both transceivers are stable enough (probably using TCXO's), PSK125 or even PSK250 can be attempted, but before changing to a faster mode, copy should be error free when using the initial slower mode. The faster the mode, the better the S/N needs to be for minimum repeated blocks. When using PSK125 or PSK250, keep a little squelch active in order to prevent large amounts of garbage filling the screen in the absence of a signal, and enable AFC. On HF, start with MFSK16, with AFC enabled. > > 73, Skip KH6TY > NBEMS Development Team >
[digitalradio] Re: NBEMS opeation procedure
Thank you Skip, this helps a lot. I was blindly sending beacons !!! Andy --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "kh6ty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To minimize interference to others and to have the most success with NBEMS, we wish for everyone to follow the prescribed contact procedure for using NBEMS. Here is an except from the Help in the Flarq application: > > Initiating an ARQ connect session > > > Start by sending a 'CQ NBEMS' or some similar unique way of indicating that you are seeking to send ARQ traffic. Do this from the digital modem program and not from flarq. The potential station for receiving your ARQ traffic will answer in the clear. Negotiate what digital mode you will use for the ARQ connection; ie: PSK-63, PSK-125, PSK-250, MFKS-16 etc. Then try that mode without ARQ to be sure that QRN and QSB will not seriously disrupt the connection. Ask the responding station to send an ARQ beacon using flarq. You will then see his ARQ callsign appear in the callsign window. > > Click the CONNECT button to connect with that station. The text next to the diamond will change to CONNECTING and remain that way during the connect time out period. During the connection process the CONNECT button will be disabled (greyed out). > > After a connection has been established the button label changes to 'Disconnect' and the text next to the diamond indicator will read CONNECTED. Pressing this button will then execute an orderly disconnect from the other station and return the program to the CONNECTED state... > > Blindly sending a beacon and waiting for a response is strongly discouraged! > > Please follow the above procedure so as to minimize interference to other users and to establish what mode is most suitable for ARQ transfers under the current conditions. Note that DominoEx and the PSK modes are intended to be used for VHF use and the MFSK modes for HF use. On VHF, when operating near the noise level, it is helpful to start with PSK63, as the idle signal stands out most clearly over the noise background, even if DominoEx modes will produce the most error-free copy, having a lower minimum S/N requirement. Then, once tuned in PSK63, shift to DominoEx 11 without changing the tuning. If the path S/N is sufficient to use the PSK modes, and both transceivers are stable enough (probably using TCXO's), PSK125 or even PSK250 can be attempted, but before changing to a faster mode, copy should be error free when using the initial slower mode. The faster the mode, the better the S/N needs to be for minimum repeated blocks. When using PSK125 or PSK250, keep a little squelch active in order to prevent large amounts of garbage filling the screen in the absence of a signal, and enable AFC. On HF, start with MFSK16, with AFC enabled. > > 73, Skip KH6TY > NBEMS Development Team >
[digitalradio] NBEMS opeation procedure
To minimize interference to others and to have the most success with NBEMS, we wish for everyone to follow the prescribed contact procedure for using NBEMS. Here is an except from the Help in the Flarq application: Initiating an ARQ connect session Start by sending a 'CQ NBEMS' or some similar unique way of indicating that you are seeking to send ARQ traffic. Do this from the digital modem program and not from flarq. The potential station for receiving your ARQ traffic will answer in the clear. Negotiate what digital mode you will use for the ARQ connection; ie: PSK-63, PSK-125, PSK-250, MFKS-16 etc. Then try that mode without ARQ to be sure that QRN and QSB will not seriously disrupt the connection. Ask the responding station to send an ARQ beacon using flarq. You will then see his ARQ callsign appear in the callsign window. Click the CONNECT button to connect with that station. The text next to the diamond will change to CONNECTING and remain that way during the connect time out period. During the connection process the CONNECT button will be disabled (greyed out). After a connection has been established the button label changes to 'Disconnect' and the text next to the diamond indicator will read CONNECTED. Pressing this button will then execute an orderly disconnect from the other station and return the program to the CONNECTED state... Blindly sending a beacon and waiting for a response is strongly discouraged! Please follow the above procedure so as to minimize interference to other users and to establish what mode is most suitable for ARQ transfers under the current conditions. Note that DominoEx and the PSK modes are intended to be used for VHF use and the MFSK modes for HF use. On VHF, when operating near the noise level, it is helpful to start with PSK63, as the idle signal stands out most clearly over the noise background, even if DominoEx modes will produce the most error-free copy, having a lower minimum S/N requirement. Then, once tuned in PSK63, shift to DominoEx 11 without changing the tuning. If the path S/N is sufficient to use the PSK modes, and both transceivers are stable enough (probably using TCXO's), PSK125 or even PSK250 can be attempted, but before changing to a faster mode, copy should be error free when using the initial slower mode. The faster the mode, the better the S/N needs to be for minimum repeated blocks. When using PSK125 or PSK250, keep a little squelch active in order to prevent large amounts of garbage filling the screen in the absence of a signal, and enable AFC. On HF, start with MFSK16, with AFC enabled. 73, Skip KH6TY NBEMS Development Team
[digitalradio] Re: Modes
Don, Go ahead and use the path simulation data, but please use the revised version (see attached). The simulated ionospheric disturbances are considered 'worst case' for each latitude with the exception of the moderate condition high latitude test. The path delay for the Mid-latitude NVIS simulation was modified from 7 ms to 20 ms. It's my understanding that the longer delay represents the maximum difference one could expect between ground wave and sky wave paths with NVIS. Let me know if you need any additional info about the tests. Tony, K2MO Digital Mode HF Path SimulationsComplied by Anthony Bombardiere, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simulator by Moe Wheatley, AE4JYDigital mode SoftwareFldigiMixWMMVariMultipskJason_Baseline Sensitivity TestMinimum SNR(no Ionospheric distortion)In this test, the minimum SNR is reachedwhen all the text being fed through thesimulator is decoded without error.A direct path (no ionospheric distortion)was used to establish a baseline SNR foreach mode.The "Quick Brown Fox" Pangram was usedfor each test.Jason Turbo (Fast)...-25dbPSKAM10..-20dbPSK10-18dbContestia 500/32.-15dbDominoEX-4 ..-15dbFEC-31...-15dbTHROBX-4.-15dbMFSK16...-14dbTHOR11...-14dbRTTYM*...-13dbContestia 500/16.-13dbCW 20 WPM**...13dbTHOR16...-12dbOlivia 500/16 ...-12dbMFSK31*..-12dbOlivia 500/8.-10dbPSK31... -10dbCHIP-648dbDominoEX-11...-8dbMT63 1K...-8dbOlivia 500/4. -8dbPSK63.-7dbFeld Hell.-7dbCHIP-128..-5dbRTTY 45...-5dbPAX2..-2dbHFPacket (300baud)+1db* Intermittent "bug" with RTTYM MixW Software** Subjective morse speed dictates SNR__Ionospheric SimulationsSimulation: High LatitudeMagnitude: ModeratePath Delay: 3msFrequency Spread: 10HzSNR: -8db (weak signal)Contestia 500/16.100%CW 20 WPM100%MFSK16...100%MFSK31**.100%Olivia 500/16100%Olivia 500/8.100%RTTYM 500/32.100%Olivia 500/4..90%Feld Hell*90%ThrobX-4..70%Chip-64...No CopyChip-128..No CopyDominoEX 4bd..No CopyDominoEX 11bd.No CopyFEC-31No CopyPSK31.No CopyJason Turbo (fast)No CopyPSK10.No CopyPSKAM10...No CopyPSK63.No CopyRTTY45No CopyTHOR-11...No CopyTHOR-16...No CopyMT63..No CopySNR: +10db (Moderate Signal)Chip64..90%Chip-128**..00Feld Hell*..90%Olivia 500/490%RTTY45..90%ThrobX-470%DominoEX 4bdNo CopyDominoEX 11bd...No CopyFEC-31..No CopyPSK31...No CopyJason Turbo(fast)...No CopyPSK10...No CopyPSKAM10.No CopyPSK63...No CopyTHOR-11.No CopyTHOR-16.No CopyMT63No Copy*diffuse text - readable**Intermittent decode problem with Chip-128___Simulation: High LatitudeMagnitude: DisturbedPath Delay: 7msFrequency Spread: 30HzSNR: -3db (weak signal)Contestia 500/16.100%CW 20 WPM100%Olivia 500/16100%Olivia 500/8.100%Olivia 500/4..95%RTTYM**...95%MFSK31... 90%MFSK1675%RTTY..40%Chip-64...10%Chip-128**no copyDominoEX-4no copyFEC-31no copyJason Turbo (Fa...no copyMT631Kno copyPSK10.no copyPSKAM10...no copyPSK31.no copyPSK63.no copyThor-11...no copyThrobX-4..no copyFeld HellReadableSNR: +10db
[digitalradio] QRSS: Grabber library coming along fine
-- Forwarded message -- From: Stanley Grixti Date: Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:52 AM Subject: [Knightsqrss] Grabber library coming along fine As promised a while ago I will be providing a system which lets us view grabs in the past...and I am ready to launch Beta 1 to you google chrome beat me to it %) HIHI there are still many bugs/issues to be ironed out and many other features to be added so here goes: http://www.9h1lo.net/grabber/date.php I truncated the DB upto 11:00 so data is available after that The plan was to only archive my own grabber...but I was thinking to myself...why not also get the other guys on too :)) so try the callsign feature :Pi still have to fix the co-ordinates of the images so some will look off-center...will do over the weekend as too much coding is keeping me away from the soldering iron :( this data could get big so if a nice 500gb hdd doesn't come my way I will have to start purging the images every now and then let me know what you guys think and if you want to add/remove your grabber drop me an offlist email also if you put the link online somewhere keep in touch as the filenames HAVE TO CHANGE! now...if the mept's that are always active and also always on the same QRG send me an email listing them and i will super-impose them with callsign on all the grabs...this is make it faster/easier to identify ! your thoughts... 73 Stanley 9H1LO _
[digitalradio] Re: Name That Mode
Hi, Without hearing that mode at a guess it might be hellschreiber or MFSK 16. As both of those modes seem to operate in that part of the band ( just above PSK ) Regards Gary G7USC
