[digitalradio] Digital Voice Dongle Project

2007-11-02 Thread Mark Thompson
This project is to create a small board that when plugged into a PC USB port, will provide an interface to a DVSI digital voice VOCODER chip. The idea is to be able to use a PC and soundcard and listen and talk to a D-Star voice data stream over the internet. Other uses would be to create a

RE: [digitalradio] Re: ALE400 - Narrow band ALE mode now available

2007-11-02 Thread Rud Merriam
Yes, the laws of physics do get in the way. They say that wider bandwidth is the technique to use. The trick in that situation is that the bandwidth is used by multiple users at the same time. Everyone is background noise to the other guy. Rud Merriam K5RUD ARES AEC Montgomery County, TX

[digitalradio] Re: ALE400 – Narrow band ALE mode now available

2007-11-02 Thread Brian A
I'm not trying to be a pain in the butt, honest. If one put ALE400 and RTTY side by side for the average ham ALE-400 would be a hard sell. Same speed in twice the bandwidth. I guess one may conclude all the bells and whistles of ALE, ARQ etc are doubling the bandwidth requirements. One can

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE400 – Narrow band ALE mode now available

2007-11-02 Thread Steve Hajducek
Hi Brian, At 08:29 AM 11/2/2007, you wrote: I'm not trying to be a pain in the butt, honest. Neither is my reply meant to be anything other than pointing out the obvious. We need narrower bandwidths not wider bandwidths for real progress with the real life crowded bands. I think that is

[digitalradio] Poisson, Shannon, and the Radio Amateur

2007-11-02 Thread Rud Merriam
This is an interesting paper (http://tinyurl.com/d5bdo) by John Costas from 1959. It elaborates the point I made earlier today that, counter intuitive as it seems, the better approach for communications in a non-channelized environment is broad bandwidth modes. In that mode of operation everyone

RE: [digitalradio] Digital Voice Dongle Project

2007-11-02 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
This is a GREAT idea. I was just looking around earlier this week, and wondering why there were no new AMBE20xx projects being done. Another great use, which I'd be very interested in, would be to decode APCO P25 encoded speech (note that the AMBE is downwards compatible with IMBE at the

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE400 – Narrow ba nd ALE mode now available

2007-11-02 Thread Rick
ALE 400 and RTTY are not all that different in bandwidth. RTTY is wider than we might like to admit depending upon how you measure the drop off at the edges. The difference is dramatic between the two modes in terms of ability to work under more difficult conditions and deeper into the noise.

[digitalradio] i think it was funny....

2007-11-02 Thread David Michael Gaytko // WD4KPD
last night while trying ale400 on 40m, one of the jerks with the wide pactor signal came up on top. as i cursed the jerk in absentia, an ale141a signal came on and covered up the pactor ! possible moral..if one group of operators is allowed to get away with it, soon everyone will do

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE400 – Narrow ba nd ALE mode now available

2007-11-02 Thread Steinar Aanesland
What is your point? LA5VNA Setinar Brian A skrev: So one gets the 60wpm of 170Hz shift RTTY for a 400 Hz bandwidth? 73 de Brian/K3KO --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com mailto:digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com, Mark Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ALE400 – Narrow band ALE mode now

[digitalradio] Re: ALE400 – Narrow band ALE mode now available

2007-11-02 Thread Brian A
So one gets the 60wpm of 170Hz shift RTTY for a 400 Hz bandwidth? 73 de Brian/K3KO --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Mark Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ALE400 – Narrow band ALE mode now available Patrick F6CTE has announced that a narrow band version of the popular Automatic Link

[digitalradio] Test in ALE400

2007-11-02 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello all, I propose a test in 14074 KHz USB on the XCVR (AF more or less 1625 Hz) to-morrow saturday at 11h00 UTC. I will call CQ in ARQ FAE. PSE, don't forget to push the RS ID detection button. See the form Non selective QSO in ARQ FAE in the document ALE_and_ALE400_easy_with_Multipsk.doc.

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE400 - Narrow band ALE mode n ow available

2007-11-02 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello Brian and all, I don't think there is to compare RTTY with ALE400. The objectives are really different and there is nothing common. ALE and ALE400 permits a rich system of communications with different possibilities (see my paper ALE and ALE400 easy). Without speaking of PC ALE and Mars