[digitalradio] Re: A Beginner's Look at Ham Radio's Digital Future with Jeff Reinhart, AA6JR

2007-09-02 Thread expeditionradio
What's the problem, Bruce? Under current FCC rules, we can run 100kHz bandwidth data on most HF bands if we want to. Bonnie KQ6XA --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, bruce mallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If the ARRL wants to start another fire storm push > that 100 khz wide on 6 and 2 met

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
I don't have it yet, just the Mandriva based one...and it worked so well with my PC hardware that I already installed it in one partition. That is the way I solved the vanishing configuration problem. Seems that my LiveCD wish list has been already fulfilled on the Puppy version. 73, Jose, C

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Rick
I don't plan on tying up one computer for one mode during an emergency event. We just went through a pretty major disaster situation here in SW Wisconsin in the past week, with the 1000 year rain event. (Back in 1965 we had the 100 year event and we thought that was bad). With the hardened comm

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Jose, the latest Puppy ISO with PSKMAIL does that, gives an option to save to flashdrive , CD, or a partition on the HD. Andy K3UK On 9/2/07, Jose A. Amador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Leigh, > > It seems to me that there is still a catch, and is the need, specially > for "lazy people" (rea

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Jose A. Amador
Leigh, It seems to me that there is still a catch, and is the need, specially for "lazy people" (read it both as lazy and easy to annoy) to store permanent parameters somewhere, so between reboots (easy to happen in emergency environments at the worst moments) the station does not lose its id

Re: [digitalradio] Re: A Beginner's Look at Ham Radio's Digital Future with Jeff Reinhart, AA6JR

2007-09-02 Thread bruce mallon
If the ARRL wants to start another fire storm push that 100 khz wide on 6 and 2 meters stuff again There is lots of unused space starting at 219mhz I have been on 220 since 1974 and it sits empty EVEN on FM there are only 7 stations in tampabay. DIGITAL would be a asset to us if they can fil

[digitalradio] Re: Linux amd PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Additionally, some digital mode intefaces that use virtual serial ports require drivers that do not support Linux, thus rig control is not always possible. Andy K3UK On 9/3/07, Andrew O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/2/07, Leigh L Klotz, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > 1. S

Re: [digitalradio] Re: A Beginner's Look at Ham Radio's Digital Future with Jeff Reinhart, AA6JR

2007-09-02 Thread John B. Stephensen
PC-based modems have allowed room for experimentation. The limitation is that most radios only provide a 2.5 kHz wide bandpass for the modem to use. They should allow software to use the widest bandpass available: 12 kHz on HF, 20 kHz on VHF (100 kHz if FCC rules are changed) and at least 1 MHz

[digitalradio] Linux amd PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Andrew O'Brien
On 9/2/07, Leigh L Klotz, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1. Stick CD into computer > 2. Reboot > > How much simpler can it get? > I have found it to be that simple with FL-DIGI but Rick and others have run in to conflicts with video cards or soundcards. It is not always as simple as I h

[digitalradio] Re: PC Monitors for ham use?

2007-09-02 Thread Brian A
Rick, Tnx info. Large than life size is good. Bifocals are bad. "Computer glasses" are always lost. Given the demographics of our society, such a "larger than life" full page display would be welcome by many. 73 de Brian/K3KO --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Leigh L Klotz, Jr.
1. Stick CD into computer 2. Reboot How much simpler can it get? On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 4:19 pm, Rick wrote: > I try to keep in mind that when I am looking at new technology > solutions > that can be used for emergency communications, it has to be as simple > as > possible and is used by many others

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Rick
Running it under VMWare might be a solution for some of us. Is there anyone doing this? If so, can you discuss how difficult (or easy) this is to do? At one time I thought that for compatibility I would be running Linux as the host OS and then could run Windows Vista as a guest OS. This seemed

Re: [digitalradio] Re: PC Monitors for ham use?

2007-09-02 Thread Rick
Hi Brian, If you are using a large size monitor, you won't really lose a lot of text since the monitor screen real estate is physically larger than many of the smaller 4:3 monitors. Compare a 19" 4:3 running at 1280x1024, to a 22" wide screen 16:9 which typically runs 1680x1050. Your vertical i

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Robert Thompson
One reason there isn't a windows version is that PSKMail is leveraging a lot of already available bits of Linux infrastructure. To port it to windows would require either porting most of those pieces to windows yourself (time consuming), using pre-ported bits where possible (flaky, as they were onl

[digitalradio] Re: PC Monitors for ham use?

2007-09-02 Thread Brian A
Rick, I am really bothered by loosing still more lines of text with these wide screen beasties. The present OS's are like Stephen Kings Langoliers. They eat away at available screen real estate. Any way to turn them 90 degrees and also rotate the windows display screen so that a full page can

[digitalradio] Re: A Beginner's Look at Ham Radio's Digital Future with Jeff Reinhart, AA6JR

2007-09-02 Thread Steve
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where he is on target is the need to develop standards. If each digital > protocol can not communicate with other similar digital modes, then it > will be hard not to have separate islands of activity. > > I appreciated his

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMAIL ?

2007-09-02 Thread Per
There are no implementations for windows. You can run it under vmware or you can just use the live cd (there are two now, one based upon Mandriva and one on Puppy). Writing it for windows is possible, pskmail is open source so please go ahead if you wish. But, why bother? You can use the live cd

[digitalradio] testers needed

2007-09-02 Thread Andrew O'Brien
I have run a few local tests of an software application, now I am looking for a couple of HF contacts. It involves PSK (63, 125, 250) with ARQ. It will require using a Linux boot CD, simply put the CD in a windows CD-rom , boot it. If interested, email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The software is no