Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-26 Thread John Becker, WØJAB
Yes that is what I was hearing as well as watching. Sorry John, but what you are witnessing is not Packet stations transmitting on top of each other.

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-26 Thread Charles Brabham
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect Yes that is what I was hearing as well as watching. Sorry John, but what you are witnessing is not Packet stations transmitting on top of each other.

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-25 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:30:21 -0500, Alan Barrow ml9...@pinztrek.com said: [snip] OK, here's the challenge: Demonstrate it's feasibility if it's JSMOP. Implement one that balances the right of the sending station not to be QRM'd VS the expectation not to QRM. Publish an API a spec

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-25 Thread Alan Barrow
Dave AA6YQ wrote: To be clear, an attended station need not wait for 5 minutes of clear frequency before transmitting; 30 seconds of no signals (meaning no automatic station is QRV) followed by a QRL? sent in mode with no response should be sufficient. What does in mode mean on shared

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-25 Thread Alan Barrow
Dave AA6YQ wrote: +++The rules to be honored by all stations are: 1. if you're not yet in QSO, don't transmit on a frequency that is already in use (meaning that signals have been detected during the past 5 minutes) 2. if you're in QSO and signal other than that of your QSO partner

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-25 Thread Charles Brabham
Lots of good or interesting opinions expressed in this discussion. - But we all know about opinions... Everybody's got one. Here are some of the relevant FACTS, the framework within we must not stray with our opinions: -- §97.101 General standards. (a) In all respects not specifically

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-25 Thread John Becker, WØJAB
OK Charles that's enough you can now move on and bad mouth whatever mode it next on your hit list. this one is over done with. John, W0JAB

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-25 Thread Charles Brabham
to use radio for your amateur radio communications? - Stop by at HamRadioNet.Org ! http://www.hamradionet.org - Original Message - From: John Becker, WØJAB To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 9:51 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

RE: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-25 Thread Dave AA6YQ
+++ AA6YQ responses below -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com]on Behalf Of Alan Barrow Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 8:12 AM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect Dave AA6YQ wrote

RE: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-25 Thread Dave AA6YQ
###AA6YQ responses below -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com]on Behalf Of Alan Barrow Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 8:34 AM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect Dave AA6YQ wrote

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-24 Thread Charles Brabham
://www.hamradionet.org - Original Message - From: Dave AA6YQ To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 10:50 PM Subject: RE: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect Did you evaluate the busy frequency detector in Scamp, Charles? Have you evaluated the busy

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect -Winmor

2009-11-24 Thread Andy obrien
WINMOR's busy detect works perfectly at the initiating station's end, a pop-up windows tells you the frequency is in use and ask if you really want to go ahead and transmit. I have not seen it work at the other end, i.e. prevent another station connecting because a third party is also detected

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect -Winmor

2009-11-24 Thread Phil Williams
Yes, seen that myself. philw de ka1gmn On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Andy obrien k3uka...@gmail.com wrote: WINMOR's busy detect works perfectly at the initiating station's end, a pop-up windows tells you the frequency is in use and ask if you really want to go ahead and transmit. I

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-24 Thread Howard Brown
From: Charles Brabham n5...@uspacket.org To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 6:36:19 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect I knew one of the hams who first envisioned what would later end up being SCAMP, followed its development

RE: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-24 Thread Dave AA6YQ
- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com]on Behalf Of Charles Brabham Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 7:36 AM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect I knew one of the hams who first envisioned what would later end up being

RE: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-24 Thread John Becker, WØJAB
At no point did the WinLink group intend to phase out the use of the SCS harmful interference mills. This still holds true today. Now Charles just don't pick on the SCS TNC. The PK-232 is the same way And while we are at it let's add that packet group. I hear more the one stations

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-24 Thread Charles Brabham
://www.hamradionet.org - Original Message - From: Dave AA6YQ To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 5:29 PM Subject: RE: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect I am fully aware of WinLink's political tactics, but the topic of this thread is busy frequency

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-24 Thread Charles Brabham
to use radio for your amateur radio communications? - Stop by at HamRadioNet.Org ! http://www.hamradionet.org - Original Message - From: John Becker, WØJAB To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 5:58 PM Subject: RE: [digitalradio] Digital busy

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-24 Thread Alan Barrow
Charles Brabham wrote: Packet radio gets by with a simple carrier detect, PACTOR can only detect other PACTOR stations, and from what I can tell, ALE has no busy detection at all. Absolutely not the case. ALE listen's before transmit for other ALE by protocol. And the commonly used ham

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect -Winmor

2009-11-24 Thread Andy obrien
FYI, the author of Winmor advised me that 3rd party busy detect IS part of Winmor. If the client attempts to call the server and the server dtecets another signal, the connect is not allowed. This, as Dave has consutantly pointed out, is to be expected since the Winmor author has shown the

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect -Winmor

2009-11-24 Thread DANNY DOUGLAS
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:16 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect -Winmor FYI, the author of Winmor advised me that 3rd party busy detect IS part of Winmor. If the client attempts to call the server and the server dtecets another signal, the connect

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect- it's not a technology issue

2009-11-24 Thread Alan Barrow
Andy obrien wrote: FYI, the author of Winmor advised me that 3rd party busy detect IS part of Winmor. so what does it do when it's already involved in a qso, waiting to ack or transmit, and someone starts transmitting? That's the core issue, not detecting that a frequency is in use. Not many

RE: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-24 Thread Dave AA6YQ
@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect Charles Brabham wrote: Packet radio gets by with a simple carrier detect, PACTOR can only detect other PACTOR stations, and from what I can tell, ALE has no busy detection at all. Absolutely not the case. ALE listen's before transmit

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-24 Thread WD8ARZ
Scamp busy detector as used in Scamp at the time of the group testing I was part of, was NOT the end all of busy detectors. Finding a setting of the threshold was very difficult. Too sensitive and the throughput operation of Scamp was poor due to being held up by the threshold trigger. Not

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect -Winmor

2009-11-24 Thread Andy obrien
At the moment it can be turned off, On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:46 PM, DANNY DOUGLAS n...@comcast.net wrote: My only question here: Is this a required part of the program, or can it be turned on and off? Danny Douglas N7DC ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB All 2

Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-24 Thread Alan Barrow
Dave AA6YQ wrote: Its only unworkable because the implementation of the busy frequency detector in question is obviously quite poor. Significantly more to it than that... unless *all* stations honor abide by common rules/tech, it simply won't work. This is true of just about any network,

RE: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect- it's not a technology issue

2009-11-24 Thread Dave AA6YQ
AA6YQ comments below -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com]on Behalf Of Alan Barrow Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:57 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect- it's not a technology issue

RE: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-24 Thread Dave AA6YQ
AA6YQ comments below -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com]on Behalf Of WD8ARZ Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:06 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect Scamp busy detector as used

RE: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-24 Thread Dave AA6YQ
+++ AA6YQ comments below -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com]on Behalf Of Alan Barrow Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:30 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect Dave AA6YQ wrote: Its

RE: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-24 Thread Dave AA6YQ
: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com]on Behalf Of Dave AA6YQ Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 2:29 AM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect +++ AA6YQ comments below -Original Message- From: digitalradio

[digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-23 Thread Charles Brabham
Packet radio gets by with a simple carrier detect, PACTOR can only detect other PACTOR stations, and from what I can tell, ALE has no busy detection at all. Several years ago I took a serious look at automated busy detection, and always ran across the same stone wall: A more sophisticated busy

RE: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect

2009-11-23 Thread Dave AA6YQ
, November 23, 2009 9:55 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: [digitalradio] Digital busy detect Packet radio gets by with a simple carrier detect, PACTOR can only detect other PACTOR stations, and from what I can tell, ALE has no busy detection at all. Several years ago I took a serious