Re: [digitalradio] The US Ham radio service

Danny and Mel:   Great work Danny...   and Sorry you have such a jaundiced view of Volunteerism...Hal   Coming from another country (Canada) and living and working in many countries around the world, I saw first hand the amazing power of American Volunteerism compared to having the gove

[digitalradio] RE: [RTTY] ARRL To QSY To 1807.500 KC

The absence of "and we checked the bandplan" from the process you describe below is both glaring and ominous. Conformance to voluntary bandplans is the foundation of the ARRL's claim (in RM-11306) that current constraints on remotely-invoked automatic operation can be eliminated without causing wid

[digitalradio] Radio Help needed

I'm looking for some help with the FT 736R and frequency calibration. On the 2 meter module, the frequency is off about 150Hz, both TX and RX. I've searched the manual but could not find any info on calibrating the frequency. Anyone familiar with this radio, I would appreciate your tips. Steve N

Re: [digitalradio] Re: The US Ham radio service

Duane, I do NOT applaude you "volunteer efforts.  Works such as you perform for free simply allow the officials you elected (aND PAY) to renege on their sworn responsibilities ... which may include raising taxes to support your efforts and buyneeded (but ignored) community services.  REALLY, th

Re: [digitalradio] The soundcard mystery

I saw an almost idetical thread to this on another reflector just last week.  RF in the shack was the culprit On 3/1/06, Tim Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mel,I think you also get an ALC indication when the rig "folds back" the outputbecause of what it sees as a high SWR at the antenna outpu

[digitalradio] Re: The US Ham radio service

Rick, That is my sole area of interest, including local packet links. I've been running Winlink Classic since the mid 90's and actually provided Hans a bit of input for the last version that he released. The coverage I've been able to maintain has dwindled drastically because so many other HF oper

Re: [digitalradio] The soundcard mystery

Mel, I think you also get an ALC indication when the rig "folds back" the output because of what it sees as a high SWR at the antenna output jack. It sure sounds to me like you are getting a high SWR on these upper bands which is causing the ALC to be cut in so as to reduce power output. This

Re: [digitalradio] The soundcard mystery

any chance of you getting RF into your system on 20M? - Original Message - From: Mel To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 1:52 PM Subject: [digitalradio] The soundcard mystery Hello everyone,I was hoping that some of the more

[digitalradio] Re: The soundcard mystery

Mel, I had a similar problem when I installed a new computer. It was RF Feedback. I had to put audio isolation tranformers in both audio lines. Your truly, Eric - K9NP --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Mel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I was hoping that some of th

Re: [digitalradio] The US Ham radio service

Im sorry you think that way Harv.  This whole country was formed with volunteers, from the start, with non-professional military (I live right next door to the original (Don't Tread On Me) Culpeper minute men.  Even the Founders were volunteers.  If you want to pay 75 or 90 percent of your

Re: [digitalradio] The US Ham radio service

mel, While military-ham organizations (MARS)do exist here. the vast majority of US hams do NOT partisipste. in them.  no body pays me anything to be a ham or supports my hobby in any fashion.  I got started 50 years ago at age 14 because it looked like a fun hobby.  I hope no one expects me to m

Re: [digitalradio] The soundcard mystery

Mel, What is the SWR on the R-5? Could anything have changed on that antenna? What type of interface are you using? When you saved the settings in QuickMix it should be good for all bands. The 11025 is the sampling rate of the sond card. On some sound cards you can change that, but if it w

Re: [digitalradio] The US Ham radio service

Title: RE: [digitalradio] The US Ham radio service Mel To give you another view of the EMCOMM issue in the USA   The USA is geographically significantly larger than Europe.    Our taxation is significantly lower than Europe.    So US government, in spite of the Billions $$, they spend on

[digitalradio] The soundcard mystery

Hello Joe W4SJI and Flavio, Thanks for the responses. As I mentioned I can tune CORRECTLY and without any problem on all the other bands, 80, 40, 30 metres on a dipole and I could tune 17 and 20 metres on the R5 until 3 weeks ago, and I was on 20 metres every day,until something happened! If I

Re: [digitalradio] Re: The US Ham radio service & SEDAN

Doc, I'm in Kansas. So I'm not doing much directly with SEDAN :-). I'm just using their guidelines and operational practices to guide me in what I am designing for use here. Try www.fla-sedan.net to get started. There are some other sites for other states. Try a google on "sedan amateur radio"

Re: [digitalradio] The soundcard mystery

It is doubtful that it is your soundcard. One possibility is RF feedback because of your antenna, feedline, and shack configuration on those bands. Do you have a dummy load? Connect it to your rig with a long piece of coax. One long enough that you can get the dummy load away from your operatin

Re: [digitalradio] Re: The US Ham radio service

From time to time I read the FADCA archives just to get a different perspective. I have talked to a number of different groups around the country as well. There is no current interest in our state for any kind of packet network. We have an emergency packet yahoogroup but there have been only a

Re: [digitalradio] The soundcard mystery

Mel, It sounds to me like you are overdriving the audio to the radio. Do the following. 1. Make sure that you are tuned in the center of the bandpass. usually about 1500Hz in the waterfall. 2. Bring up the Windows sound. 3. Leave the RF power to full output. 4. Put the meter in the ALC posit

Re: [digitalradio] The soundcard mystery

Saludos Mel, Turn off the speech compressor. Wednesday, March 1, 2006, 3:52:10 PM, you wrote: > Hello everyone, I was hoping that some of the more experienced users of digital  communication would be able to shed some light on the problem I am  experiencing regarding loading up PSK 31

[digitalradio] The soundcard mystery

Hello everyone, I was hoping that some of the more experienced users of digital communication would be able to shed some light on the problem I am experiencing regarding loading up PSK 31 on 20 metres. I still have the problem with my computer, Digipan and an Icom 746 and I am unable to remove

RE: [digitalradio] The US Ham radio service

Title: RE: [digitalradio] The US Ham radio service One reason for using amateur radio is that during "normal" everyday operations the agency/organization uses their radios for normal business.  In emergencies, there is generally a need for increased communications both in equipment and train

Re: [digitalradio] Re: New poll for digitalradio

John- This is NOT an answer to Daves' question. Did you support it or not? Bill-W4BSG John Becker wrote: >I like some parts and dislike other parts. > >At 10:45 PM 2/28/06, you wrote: > > >>972, not 927. >> >>Did you support or oppose RM-11306, John? >> >>73, >> >>Dave, AA6YQ >>

[digitalradio] Re: New poll for digitalradio

As with previous dockets, hardcopy (paper) submitals that are part of the offical record are available via ECFS. See for example: and note (a) it is a scan and (b) the presence of the FCC mailroom stamps

Re: [digitalradio] Digest Number 1830

Howard, I just had commented on this in the last few days. I compared Multipsk with AG4ND and found Multipsk to be very much better. At one point I was copying a perfectly readable signal and Multipsk was almost perfect while AG4ND was exceptionally poor at the decoding. Try a comparison and l

Re: [digitalradio] Re: New poll for digitalradio

I was told by my contact at the FCC that the mail in's are not on the site. Just the on line comments. But she did say in her words, "as far as I know" So anyone of us could be wrong. At 07:00 AM 3/1/06, you wrote: >It was my understanding from the FCC site that comments that are >mailed in are s

Re: [digitalradio] Re: New poll for digitalradio

I like some parts and dislike other parts. At 10:45 PM 2/28/06, you wrote: >972, not 927. > >Did you support or oppose RM-11306, John? > > 73, > > Dave, AA6YQ Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://gr

Re: [digitalradio] Digest Number 1830

Hello to all, There is an additional piece of CW decoding software that I haven't seen mentioned yet. It is the very fine work of AG4ND and includes DSP software that works ever so nicely. If you want just the DSP software that is available also as a separate download. There is also a small PDF h

[digitalradio] Re: New poll for digitalradio

It was my understanding from the FCC site that comments that are mailed in are scanned into a computer and posted on the web site along with the on-line comments and file transfer comments. Is that an incorrect reading of the what the site says? tim ab0wr --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, J

Fw: [digitalradio] The US Ham radio service

Mel:   As one who has lived and worked in your country and enjoyed the gentlemanly civility of UK and European Amateurs I can understand your attitude.  It really was a pleasure using Ham Radio over there.   I do not know if you ever saw the RSGB video on Ham Radio...but their entire EMCOM