[digitalradio] Re: K3UK Sked page down...back-up in use
I am still waiting for my ISP to do a master re-set and then I will upload files . Hope to get it back later today, Andy K3UK On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Andy obrien k3uka...@gmail.com wrote: My Sked Page files has been hacked to send out spam emails from my web site. My ISP has disabled the folders as a security message and notified me. I will require a master reset of my web site , that may takes a few hours. You can use the back up site at http://www.electroblog.com/sked/ until I fix things. Andy K3UK On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Tomas Hood nw7us.helioph...@gmail.comwrote: Whew - at least I know it is not something hijacking my DNS. There are viruses out there that do that sort of thing. And, I love my new T - yes I do. Next is WAS challenges, etc. I love this group. CW rules. Morse code rocks. The language of the modern communications age. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:15 AM, rwsporty kc9...@sbcglobal.netkc9khg%40sbcglobal.net wrote: --- In s...@yahoogroups.com skcc%40yahoogroups.com skcc% 40yahoogroups.com, Tomas Hood nw7us.helioph...@... wrote: Am I the only one getting the error 403 code from the K3UK spotting pages? -- 73 de NW7US, Tomas David Hood - Bitterroot Valley of Montana Same thing here Tomas! BTW...congrats on your T! -- 73 de NW7US, Tomas David Hood - Bitterroot Valley of Montana Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist : http://tomasdavidhood.com Contributing editor: CQ Magazine, CQ VHF, Popular Communications Main Page: http://hfradio.org/ CW Page: http://cw.hfradio.org/ (SKCC 4758C) Twitter Space WX : @hfradiospacewx Twitter NW7US : @NW7US Twitter my music: @TomasMusic Linux User #32405 - Since 1996 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [digitalradio] Not Tech Digital, But Then Maybe?
For receive only there is also Perseus. It is about the same price as the SDR-14. You can see the radio and read about some real world performance from the following links: http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/commrxvr/0122.html http://www.nitehawk.com/sm5bsz/perseus/perseus.htm http://www.nitehawk.com/sm5bsz/digdynam/practical.htm I see this as more than an either or. Softrock and Genesis are more entry level kits, each with their own following. Then there is Flexradio. The Flex3000 is small enough to be portable and the 1500 comes in at a pretty decent price. But at the end of the day, what are you planning on accomplishing? I like the Perseus or the SDR-IP for receive and experimentation. Overall I like the Flex but for low cost backpacking and QRP both Softrock and Genesis are attractive. You can join the various Yahoo groups if you have not already to get a better feel for these different technologies. Gmail - Kevin, Natalia, Stacey Rochelle wrote: Hi All, I am posting this question in this group as I know their are a few of you using SDR modules. I am looking at getting one soon to use in my shack (bit hard for portable), but I don't know which way to go? I have looked at the following few modules, SDR-IQ, Softrock, Flexradio and Genesis to name a few. I am impressed with the SDR-IQ, but it is quite pricey and it's only RX. I would like to be able to RX/TX. I could however use my Kenwood for the TX side of things. I did look at the SDR-14 but at twice the price over the SDR-IQ without much difference, won't be going that way. Anyone got their thoughts, please email me directly if you do not wish to clog up the group. Andy, I'll try you on Skype again later (we keep missing each other). Get Skype and call me for free. Kevin, ZL1KFM Try Hamspots, PSKreporter, and K3UK Sked Page http://www.obriensweb.com/skedpskr4.html Suggesting calling frequencies: Modes 500Hz 3583,7073,14073,18103, 21073,24923, 28123 . Wider modes e.g. Olivia 32/1000, ROS16, ALE: 14109.7088. 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: digitalradio-dig...@yahoogroups.com digitalradio-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: digitalradio-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[digitalradio] Re: Not Tech Digital, But Then Maybe? SDRs
Kevin, FYI...here is a little email i sent to another ham last week on the topic. Hi, Roger. Regarding my SDR. I find it to be both great, and a bit of a pain!I did not want to spend lots of money, nor do I possess the skills to build an inexpensive one from a kit. My very talented friend , W3VG, bought a softrock kit 3 weeks ago and despite his talents, he is finding it quite a challenge. So, I bought a SDR-IQ for $499 after selling a 21 year old TS-440 for around $400. Having wide (up to 190 khz) spectrum to visually see signals is really amazing, hard to imagine being with out it now. Visually spotting DX is much easier than twirling a dial, you also find stations not yet announced on a DX cluster. On a crowded band, it is not as useful because it can be a pain to click on hundreds of signals. However, on a no-so-active band, it is fun looking for tiny whispers of signals and then hearing a CQ call. My SDR has the ability to listen with 3 VFOs (depending on the software used), so you can actually hear three different parts of the spectrum at the same time. I also can have two signals , one playing via the right speaker and one via the left, if I choose. I can also listen to LSB AND USB, CW and SSB , various combinations ...at the same time. I find the sensitivity to be not significantly different than my TS2000, if I can hear it on the TS200, I can usually hear it on the SDR-IQ. There is a bit more white noise hiss on the SDR but I can handle that. You can use noise reduction features, but I usually just ignore the noise. There will probably be times where my TS-2000 hears somethings the SDR-IQ does not, but not on a regular basis. If you do CW work, CW Skimmer is great with an SDR. It will find all the CW signals that are sending a CQ within the 192 hz span (or more if your SDR allows) and list them on a screen for you to click on and QSY to. Very useful. The pain in the neck part is two-fold. One , transmitting on one antenna and receiving via the SDR on another, is a hazard. If not careful, you can blow the front end of the SDR if too much RF gets in. I bought a device that protects the front end , there are 3-4 types available. This apparently applies to ALL SDRs, not just the SDR-IQ. The SDR-IQ designer tells me that the ONLY way to be 100% safe is to disconnect the SDR while transmitting. That can be a pain. What I do is.. I have a coax switch on my desk and I switch the SDR's antenna to ground before I transmit. So, there is that added step. Not a major hassle unless doing rapid fire work, like in a contest. Having a dedicated SDR transceiver using just one antenna would presumably solve this problem. The commercial devices you can buy either detect the RF and invoke protection circuits (the one I have) or use a PTT line and switch the antenna to ground (more expensive, $120) There is an application , called rig-sync , that I use. One click of a mouse and my TS-2000 moves to the frequency and mode that my SDR is in. Very useful.I also have a Microkeyer interface, with the software that comes with that, I can also control my TS--2000 AND SDR-IQ My SDR does not require a high end sound card, some others do. When you run an SDR, you can SEE large chunks of spectrum, but you can't hear large chunks. Some SDR software allows your to hear as much as 12 khz of audio, others just 3-6 Khz. That is not a big problem because your ears can not handle all those signals. Where it is an issue is for digital modes. Digital mode software has not caught up with SDRs yet. All, except Multipsk, will decode whatever audio spectrum you can get out of the digital mode software. usually around 4 khz. So, even if the SDR software allows larger chunks of audio, FL-digi, DM780, MixW, et al, will not decode more than the standard. Multipsk has a feature that WILL decode from an SDR directly. 48 Khz of spectrum is monitored and it will even detect RS-ID over that entire range, VERY cool. Multipsk does not support all SDRs...yet . So, in my case', it accepts the signal and works nicely, BUT I have to 'start the SDR-IQ via SDR software. Thus I have two CPU demanding applications running and it taxes my low end PC. My sons Optiplex 270 with a 2.7 CPU runs all of this without problem, so it does not take a whole lot more CPU. Multipsk may soon include more SDR support and then I would not have to use two applications at the same time. DM780 is also expected to add SDR support. Some SDRs like Sofrock can only do a small chunk of spectrum at a time (around 40 khz) , some do the same as mine (192 khz) and some (in the $1000-2000 range) do 2-3 mhz broken down in to several chunks per band. If I was doing it again, I would think more about getting the ability to monitor ALL bands. I did not consider a Flex radio because that requires a high-end sound card and computer, by the time you are
[digitalradio] EA PSK31 contest 16:00 UTC Saturday till 16:00 UTC Sunday (March 13-14, 2010).
This could be an interesting challenge, if not for the points...perhaps the chhalenge of trying to work all the Spanish provinces. Andy K3UK Sponsored by Unión de Radioaficionados Españoles (URE). The manager of the contest is EA4ZB. Participants: Any licensed amateur station. Date: 2nd full weekend of March, from 16:00 UTC Saturday till 16:00 UTC Sunday (March 13-14, 2010). Mode: BPSK31. Bands: 10, 15, 20, 40 and 80 meters, according to IARU Region 1 band plan. Classes: 1) Single operator all band EA. 2) Single operator single band EA. (One band is only allowed during the contest). 3) Single operator all band non-EA. 4) Single operator single band non-EA. (One band is only allowed during the contest). 5) Multioperator EA, only all bands. 6) Multioperator non EA, only all bands. NOTES: a) The use of cluster is allowed for all classes, but it is not allowed self-spotting. b) In the single operator categories only one signal is allowed in the air. c) In the multioperator categories only one signal is allowed by band. Contest call: CQ EA TEST. Valid contacts: Any station can be contacted during the contest. Every station can be contacted once per band. The points and/or multipliers derived from unique QSOs will be not valid. Exchange: Spanish stations: RST + Province code (see below). The foreign stations that transmit from the Spanish territory will be considered as EA stations. DX stations: RST + QSO number starting with 001. Multi-operator stations, if used multi TX, shall report separate serials per band starting with 001. Scoring: On 10, 15 and 20 meters, one (1) point for QSO within own continent, and two (2) points for QSO outside own continent. On 40 and 80 m, three (3) points for QSO within own continent, and six (6) points for QSO outside own continent. Multipliers: - EADX100 entities. - Spanish Provinces. - USA, Canada, Japan and Australia call areas (VE3, VE6, W5, JA1...). NOTES: 1) Each multiplier counts once per band. 2) The first QSO with W, VE, JA and VK stations, on each band, counts for two multipliers (EADX100 entity + call area) 3) The first QSO with EA, EA6, EA8 and EA9 stations, on each band, counts for two multipliers (EADX100 entity + Province). Final score: Total QSO points by total multipliers in all bands. Prizes: Trophy to the winner in each class and certificate for the second and third places in each class, if the valid QSO number is higher than 50. Logs: All logs should be submitted in Cabrillo format via Internet to the following E-mail address: ps...@ure.es Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spam bots. Necesita activar JavaScript para visualizarla . Logs should be sent as an e-mail attachment, not in the text of the e-mail, and the filename for the log should be yourcall.log. Deadline: All entries must be e-mailed by March 31th, 2010. Logs lately received will not be considered to any effect. SPANISH PROVINCE CODE A – Alicante AB – Albacete AL – Almería AV – Ávila B – Barcelona BA – Badajoz BI – Vizcaya BU – Burgos C – CoruñaCA – Cádiz CC – Cáceres CE – Ceuta CO – Córdoba CR – Ciudad Real CS – Castellón CU – Cuenca GC – Las Palmas GI – Girona GR – GranadaGU – Guadalajara H – Huelva HU – HuescaIB – I. Baleares J – Jaén L – Lleida LE – LeónLO – La RiojaLU – Lugo M – Madrid MA – Málaga ML – Melilla MU – Murcia NA – Navarra O – Asturias OU – Ourense P – PalenciaPO – Pontevedra S – Cantabria SA – Salamanca SE – Sevilla SG – Segovia SO – SoriaSS – Guipúzcoa T – Tarragona TE – Teruel TF – SC Tenerife TO – Toledo V – Valencia VA – Valladolid VI – Álava Z – ZaragozaZA – Zamora Try Hamspots, PSKreporter, and K3UK Sked Page http://www.obriensweb.com/skedpskr4.html Suggesting calling frequencies: Modes 500Hz 3583,7073,14073,18103, 21073,24923, 28123 . Wider modes e.g. Olivia 32/1000, ROS16, ALE: 14109.7088. 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: digitalradio-dig...@yahoogroups.com digitalradio-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: digitalradio-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[digitalradio] Feld Hell Sprint: 1600Z-1800Z, Mar 13
Info courtesy of http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/weeklycont.php Feld Hell Sprint: 1600Z-1800Z, Mar 13 Mode: Feld Hell Bands: 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10m Classes:(none) Max power: 100 watts Exchange: (see rules) Work stations: Once per band QSO Points: (see rules) Bonus Points: (see rules) Multipliers:Each state, province and country once only Score Calculation: Total score = (total QSO points x total mults) + bonus points Submit logs by: April 1, 2010 E-mail logs to: (none) Post log summary at: http://sites.google.com/site/feldhellclub/Home/contests Mail logs to: (none) Find rules at: http://sites.google.com/site/feldhellclub/Home/contests
[digitalradio] PSKMail
Hi all, I've tried to connect to any server and I've yet to connect. Maybe being here in western montana running a 160 loop has something to do with it. But, I do lots of psk qso's and a few other digi modes. I think I have everything setup but never can connect...It looks like a good thing but is getting frustrated trying to use pskmail...just venting..73, Alan
