[digitalradio] Re: Multiple Digital Modes: Time to get rid of most ?

2008-04-20 Thread Dave Bernstein
>>>AA6YQ comments below --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >snip< 2. Log keeping, I don't want to have 10 different log files, I want to have one. I use DXKeeper and WinWarbler and MultiPSK will interface to it, but I also run HRD/DM780, NBEMS, MixW

[digitalradio] Re: Multiple Digital Modes: Time to get rid of most ?

2008-04-20 Thread Dave Bernstein
I don't believe that PSK31, PSK63, or RTTY are the best that can be done on HF-- but no protocol attractive enough to displace them has yet been developed. This remains an open challenge, not a closed book. Skip KH6TY's latest work seems promising... 73, Dave, AA6YQ --- In digita

Re: [digitalradio] Multiple Digital Modes: Time to get rid of most ?

2008-04-20 Thread Rick
Hi Jeff, I can tell some of the modes on the waterfall, but then again many are not really discernable. By combining the sound of the mode with the appearance on the waterfall, you can get better at it. Bandwidth is one factor, the relative number of tones, certain spacing, etc., all help to d

RE: [digitalradio] Re: 30 meters Olivia

2008-04-20 Thread Curt Givens
Thanks I'll give it a try first chance Curt Curt Givens KC8STE, AAR5VR Army MARS Earthdog and Special Programs Director GCDOC/GCAC Dayton, OH "Registering lawful Americans who possess a gun to stop armed criminals, is like registering virgins to stop prostitution." _ From: dig

[digitalradio] Re: Multiple Digital Modes: Time to get rid of most ?

2008-04-20 Thread Paul
Hey Jeff - your neighbor K7NHB here. Don't give up on SSTV. One of the software packages I use - not MixW - automatically determines the correct SSTV mode. Or, you can pick the Scotty mode and be correct 90% of the time. Once it stops snowing in Bend, I'll get real antennas in the air (both HF an

Re: [digitalradio] Multiple Digital Modes: Time to get rid of most ?

2008-04-20 Thread Jeff Moore
Rick, My interests are similar to yours, ie, effective emergency comms, and just trying out all the different modes. I have two main issues: 1. Being brand new to digital modes, I find it rather difficult to tell what mode I'm seeing on the waterfall. I recognize PSK, RTTY, MFSK16 (now), bu

Re: [digitalradio] WSPR operation on 7.000 MHz

2008-04-20 Thread Sholto Fisher
Hi guys, It occurred to me that right at the end of 30m might be a good place to do WSPR. The APRS packet ops use 10.149.200 and 10.149.400 for their transmitted tones so this would leave a 500Hz margin if you used 10.149.900 for WSPR. Of course you would need to be especially careful you stay

[digitalradio] WSPR operation on 7.000 MHz

2008-04-20 Thread gerry_lawlor
Following a suggestion from Andy K3UK that 7.000 MHz dial frequency might be a better channel for WSPR in Europe (7.0746 can suffer very heavy SSB QRM) a number of us operated there on Saturday night/Sunday morning with acceptable results. My spottings are attached below. These were received on

[digitalradio] Re: [multipsk] how ?

2008-04-20 Thread Patrick Lindecker
Hello David, With Multipsk, you can send, in Video ID, the mode but also your call, name, QTH, locator...but not "73" specifically. However, if you put "73" in your Locator information field, you could send "73" at any moment (with the macro). 73 Patrick - Original Message -

Re: [digitalradio] Multiple Digital Modes: Time to get rid of most ?

2008-04-20 Thread Jose A. Amador
Well, I see it is not Olivia's fault, but people's conservadurism not trying the newer modes. As it has been said before, most people on PSK31 uses ONLY PSK31, and very few of the most restless attempts other modes. I believe that there is another ongoing revolution on beaconing with WSPR. A

[digitalradio] Re: Multiple Digital Modes: Time to get rid of most ?

2008-04-20 Thread Don
Andy, Hope you get feeling better soon...hang in there. Also, here is some data that might be of interest to your post: http://www.30meterdigital.org/30msoftware.html http://poll.pollcode.com/81D_result?v What digital modes do you use the most on 30 Meters? 533 total individual votes (1,039

Re: [digitalradio] Multiple Digital Modes: Time to get rid of most ?

2008-04-20 Thread Rick
I had thought that CHIP64 was basically an experimental mode with little practical value until it was pointed out to me that at least one Digital Net uses it in Virginia. I have monitored their transmissions a few times, even though it is on a NVIS frequency and I am at a quite distant location

Re: [digitalradio] how ?

2008-04-20 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Yes, I also sent "CQ" and occasionally "63" (for PSK63) in the PSK waterfall. I used DM780 to do this... Here is my DM780 CQ Contest Macro - # # Video ID - the contents of the tag is displayed in human-readable format. # The t

[digitalradio] how ?

2008-04-20 Thread David Michael Gaytko // WD4KPD
yesterday looking around 30m with psk(not sure if 31 or 63), i saw, but did not catch the tail end of a signal in the waterfall with a "73" printed after it. this did not look like an video id as used by multipsk. this signal was simply formed by the psk signal itself. anyone got an idea ? d

[digitalradio] Re: Multiple Digital Modes: Time to get rid of most ?

2008-04-20 Thread Thomas Giella KN4LF
During the TARA Skirmish I made allot of contacts on PSK31/63/125 and RTTY only, on 40 and 20 meters. Also during the weekend period I had quite a few QSO's on Hell during the Feld Hell Club contest. Last weekend I made allot of contacts on PSK31/63/125 during the 070 Flavors contest. During th

[digitalradio] Re: Multiple Digital Modes: Time to get rid of most ?

2008-04-20 Thread Traveler
I would keep Hell, yes it is not as popular as PSK or RTTY, but there are quiet a few operators on Hell, and there are active nets/contest for Hell. Take a look at the group. Sorry to hear about the pinched nerve, been there and it's not fun. Myself I am recovering from minor knee surgery so not i

Re: [digitalradio] Multiple Digital Modes: Time to get rid of most ?

2008-04-20 Thread Rick
I have been concerned for some time about the lack of interest in the new modes, even though some of us try and promote them. Very few hams have any interest in digital modes to begin with. About half the hams here in the U.S. can not operate below 10 meters since you need at least a General Cl

Re: [digitalradio] Multiple Digital Modes: Time to get rid of most ?

2008-04-20 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Jose, after I wrote the first Chip 64 help file and published it, there was a few weeks of activity but it has been dead for the past couple of years. Olivia is perhaps my favourite but hard to find anyone, and when you do it is the guy you talked to the last time you heard a Olivia signal. Andy.

[digitalradio] OT: Muscle pain from vertebral problems

2008-04-20 Thread Rick
Andy, I greatly sympathize with your medical problem as this is one of the reasons I retired early with severe arthritis and nerves being crushed, particularly from the C5 vertebrae. I finally had an MRI and the situation is pretty bad. Three years ago I did not want to live. The pain was so b

Re: [digitalradio] RFSM8000 and Yaesu FT857

2008-04-20 Thread Phil Barnett
On Saturday 19 April 2008 12:19:55 am Leskep wrote: > Hi Alan > This is using the digi port on the 857 with all dsp functions off > but I need 2400 hz of audio passband just to fit the non standard > RFSM8000 signal in and just cant get it from stock standard 857 > Maybe just put it back in my mobi

Re: [digitalradio] Multiple Digital Modes: Time to get rid of most ?

2008-04-20 Thread Laurent Laborde
Hello, i have exactly the same problem. PSK31 is a good mode, but i'm tired of PSK31 only QSO. I try to use exoctic mode only. All flavors of Hellschreiber, Throb, Ale, Olivia, ALE, Stanag, Packet, ... It can take MANY hours to get a single reply in MFSK16 while there is a lot of psk31 around.