[digitalradio] Re: ROS back bigger and better !

2010-07-19 Thread Chris Jewell
g4ilo writes: > > But why are you all so worked up over this? It is the USA not > Soviet Russia, you aren't going to end up in Siberia are you? The late J Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, used to exile FBI agents he disliked to Alaska, which was as close to Siberia as he could send the

Re: [digitalradio] Opposing 60M proposal

2010-05-13 Thread Chris Jewell
James French writes: > Can it be 'justified' to 'clog up' a new band with allowing ANY digital > mode, > and I am also including digitized voice into this, just to have it be there? > Why not use what is already staged and developed and on the bands that > already > have the allocations?

[digitalradio] Why does the ARRL continue to push for Pactor III support...

2010-05-10 Thread Chris Jewell
Rick Ellison writes: ... > This just makes no sense to me why you would push Pactor III on a > channelized frequency setting.. A good question: I was thinking of sending in a comment on that NPRM, recommending that instead of authorizing only PSK-31 and Pactor-III, that the FCC instead permit a

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Unattended narrow mode transmission "protection"

2010-04-09 Thread Chris Jewell
Ed G writes: > > Using your same logic below, it could well be determined that hams > who partake regularly in 75M evening nets, or even regular QSO, etc, > should take their conversations to FCC Part D Citizen's band, or other > service , because those communications on a reg

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Unattended narrow mode transmission "protection"

2010-04-09 Thread Chris Jewell
Adding to Skip's remarks, I will point out it is considered almost an indecency among the daily-position-report hams to mention 97.113(a)(5) of the FCC rules, which states: (a) No amateur station shall transmit: ... (5) Communications, on a regular basis, which could reasonably be furn

[digitalradio] Adobe Reader incompatible with amateur radio computer?

2010-01-29 Thread Chris Jewell
I don't know whether that applies to MSIE. Sometimes convenience and safety are conflicting values. 73 DE KW6H (ex-AE6VW), Chris Jewell

Re: [digitalradio] Re: illinoisdigital group

2009-02-23 Thread Chris Jewell
I didn't complain either, but after about 5 or so of his messages I added this to my .procmailrc: # advertisements in various Y! ham-radio mailing lists *From: .*wb9...@yahoo.com /dev/null 73 de kw6h, ex-ae6vw Chris Jewell

Re: [digitalradio] Grouply spam/theft attacks

2008-08-30 Thread Chris Jewell
Oops! That .procmailrc rule should read ... :0 : *Received: from .*72\.20\.12[14]\.[0-9]+ /dev/null Sorry about the missing period. -- 73 DE KW6H (ex-AE6VW), Chris Jewell

Re: [digitalradio] Grouply spam/theft attacks

2008-08-30 Thread Chris Jewell
l.net forwarding service, which passes my firewall. 73 DE KW6H (ex-AE6VW), Chris Jewell

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digitalradio Group

2008-01-15 Thread Chris Jewell
he FCC subbands-by-bandwidth NPRM, WL2K sucks|rocks, automatic busy detection for bots "should is mandatory"|"is infeasible", etc, but I'm not sure I'm not confabulating here. :-) 73 DE KW6H (ex-AE6VW) -- Chris Jewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 1396 Gualala CA USA 95445

[digitalradio] Re: Hams should have encryption

2007-04-28 Thread Chris Jewell
affic by cryptographir means, but I don't see a lot of evidence of that yet. It also may be that, say, on 2M and above, where F-layer propagation is unknown, hams could be permitted the use of crypto without disturbing international agreements too much. -- 73 DE KW6H (ex AE6VW), Chris Jewell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Gray Areas of Ham Radio Regulations and Rules

2007-03-19 Thread Chris Jewell
I wish it were otherwise, but it's not. We need regulation by bandwidth only, but that proposal seems to be stalled. :-( -- Chris Jewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ex-ae6vw) Gualala CA USA 95445

Re: [digitalradio] Re: FNpsk

2007-01-31 Thread Chris Jewell
h we know is too slow. (120 chars/sec) / (6 chars/word) = 20 words / second (not per minute) 20 x 60 = 1200 words/minute. Besides, while I don't know a lot about AX.25, I'm pretty sure that X.25, from which AX.25 is derived, is synchronous (no start or stop bits). -- 73 DE KW6H (ex-AE6

[digitalradio] Re: Effective Date ? FCC Drops Morse Code

2006-12-16 Thread Chris Jewell
hed in the FR until 15 November, and took effect on 15 December, despite the fact that the October announcement included the full text of the adopted changes, unlike Friday's press release. I'll be surprised if the effective date is earlier than 1 February. -- 73 DE KW6H, ex-AE6V

[digitalradio] Re: New ARRL Petition

2006-12-13 Thread Chris Jewell
e rules do not say what in fact they plainly do say. The terms "semiautomatic" and "fully automatic" are mere shorthand: that those terms do not appear in the regs is not germane to the discussion. -- 73 DE KW6H (ex-AE6VW) Chris Jewell Gualala CA USA

[digitalradio] (unknown)

2006-12-07 Thread Chris Jewell
tering too much, since they grow towards each other as needed. -- 73 de kw6h, ex-ae6vwChris Jewell, Gualala CA USA

[digitalradio] Re: New 80m USA Keyboarding Digi Frequencies

2006-12-07 Thread Chris Jewell
he top of the band, rather with the experimenters and narrow-mode operators in between. Comments? -- 73 DE KW6H, ex-AE6VW, Chris Jewell Gualala CA USA

Re: [digitalradio] Band Plans

2006-12-07 Thread Chris Jewell
for example, Region 2 hams stopped using 3.8 to 4.0 MHz, because in Region 1 that spectrum belongs variously to the fixed, land mobile, aero mobile, and broadcast services, with no hams allowed. That's not going to happen. -- 73 DE KW6H, ex-AE6VWChris JewellGualala CA USA

[digitalradio] USA FCC: Technology Death Row for HF Data

2006-11-16 Thread Chris Jewell
expeditionradio writes: > Wow. It appears that the FCC has actually redefined "Data" below 30MHz > at less than 500Hz... "data" in the common way that 99% of hams send > data using digital modes on computers and ham transceivers. > > I've often said that the antiquated content-based FCC rule

[digitalradio] Re: BPL-Busting Modes/Techniques

2006-10-03 Thread Chris Jewell
difference in a meter reading. 73 de KW6H, ex AE6VW -- Chris Jewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gualala CA USA 95445 Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.co

RE: [digitalradio] Re: RTTY Hall of Shame

2006-09-25 Thread Chris Jewell
to the late Richard Mitchell's essay "Yet Another Losing Season": http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/newslettersv09/9.6.htm. It makes no mention of ham radio, but if you read it, you'll see why I thought of it in this context. -- 73 DE KW6H, ex AE6VW Chris Jewell Need a

[digitalradio] -tor modes and PCs

2006-08-28 Thread Chris Jewell
ut pipelined packets. -- 73 DE AE6VW Chris JewellGualala CA USA Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan pol

Re: [digitalradio] New to Digital HF -- PACTOR setup and hardware maybe needed???

2006-08-28 Thread Chris Jewell
e top of my head: if anyone has already been thinking more deeply about this and has better suggestions, by all means offer them. I'm an old computer geek but a new ham: I'm happy to learn about either computers or radio from anyone who can improve my understanding. -- 73 DE AE6VW Chris

Re: [digitalradio] New to Digital HF -- PACTOR setup and hardware maybe needed???

2006-08-28 Thread Chris Jewell
don't know whether there is a comparable sysctl variable in Linux, or whether you can build a custom kernel that uses a shorter scheduling quantum, or what. -- 73 DE AE6VW, Chris Jewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gualala CA USA Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other

Re: [digitalradio] The digital throughput challenge on H

2006-08-24 Thread Chris Jewell
E and Open5066 are examples, though I don't yet know much about the latter, and so have no opinion as to whether it will prove fit for ham use. Obviously, the people working on it think it is, and they know much more about it than I, so I'm hopeful. -- 73 DE AE6VW Chris JewellGu

[digitalradio] help with digipan

2006-07-22 Thread Chris Jewell
t any laptop has a COM4 port. 73 DE AE6VW, Chris -- Chris Jewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band

[digitalradio] Re: A bit off-topic - antenna question

2006-04-09 Thread Chris Jewell
dance) and the equation for input impedance, instead of just taking my guess that it'll work okay. 73 DE AE6VW, Chris -- Chris Jewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 1396 Gualala CA 95445 707-884-9406 Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas

Re: [digitalradio] Preferred PC-to- Rig Interface?

2006-01-07 Thread Chris Jewell
kd4e writes: > Hmmm. Sounds as though if I wish to cover all modes I > will need something more than a sound card as some of > them need more interface help than others! Perhaps not, since you're a Linux user. Although I haven't tried it myself yet, I *think* you'll find that hfterm on Linux

Re: [digitalradio] Winlink vs. Winlink 2000 et al

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Jewell
ay harbor disabling bugs that could get someone killed, or at least could prevent them being saved or assisted. In such a context, a timebomb is certainly an unnecessary feature. Software development decisions that are acceptable for games or business software can get people killed when used