[digitalradio] Re: Setting up IC7000 for digital modes ??????????

2010-09-04 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
will disconnect the mic and see how that goes. Using the Digikeyer with it here. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:37 PM, aa777888athotmaildotcom aa777...@... wrote: Andy, I have one. I also use a similar Microham interface, the USB III. There is absolutely nothing special about setting it up

[digitalradio] WINMOR is out of beta and fully released

2010-06-18 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
So you always wanted to access the Winlink network and send/receive email over HF but didn't want to buy a $1500 modem? No problem! Get it here: http://www.winlink.org/ClientSoftware Includes automatic download of server data (you can also get it over the air) and, if you follow the included

[digitalradio] Re: Nomic vs. Signalink USB

2010-06-15 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
Also works for Winmor ARQ. Make sure the delay control is set to minimum. With correct drive, minimum delay pretty much works for every mode except Hell and maybe just a tiny bit of delay on Olivia. --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rein Couperus r...@... wrote: Not an issue for pskmail

[digitalradio] Re: Congratulations!!!

2010-05-05 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
Yes, Winlink RMS stations listings and status (by clicking on the station listed) are available here: http://www.winlink.org/RMSHFStatus The list is easy to sort by callsign and frequency by clicking on the relevant column headers. If it's not peer to peer it should be easy to figure out

[digitalradio] Re: Digital novice needs advice!

2010-04-14 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
What Andy said, plus hands down use your microHAM interface. It's top of the line! --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, obrienaj k3uka...@... wrote: Fred take a look at the complete DX Lab suite, it has LOTS of logging and rig control capability and plays very well with Microham products.

[digitalradio] Re: Message via HF (Winmor)

2010-03-26 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, g4ilo jul...@... wrote: --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, aa777888athotmaildotcom aa777888@ wrote: Nevertheless, if you are in an internet denied area (no wireline or commercial wireless) you can now send and receive internet email over HF

[digitalradio] Re: KB1OOQ-5 back ON-LINE (Comcast comes through)

2010-03-26 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
Math humor...nooo :) --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, mikea mi...@... wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:06:38AM -, aa777888athotmaildotcom wrote: Pretty good, those Comcast folks. Expensive as hell, but good. Fixed in an hour and before bedtime, even :-) Very unusual

[digitalradio] Re: Message via HF (Winmor)

2010-03-25 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, obrienaj k3uka...@... wrote: --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, k3uk@ wrote: Just a test message to the group vi a Winmor HF station. Andy K3UK It worked ! My thanks to KB1OOQ for the 80M on-ramp. It took 5 minutes to pass the message

[digitalradio] Re: KB1OOQ-5 back ON-LINE (Comcast comes through)

2010-03-25 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
Pretty good, those Comcast folks. Expensive as hell, but good. Fixed in an hour and before bedtime, even :-) Very unusual to have an outage, actually, especially with no weather in the area. In 10 years I can count them on the fingers of one hand. --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, k...@...

[digitalradio] Re: WINMOR software.

2010-02-12 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
From your signature line it appears that your hobby is monitoring. Unfortunately there is currently no way to monitor Winmor even with the RMS Express client software. RMS Express has no provisions for monitoring. Like any ARQ protocol that uses extensive FEC it is very difficult to monitor in

[digitalradio] Re: Understanding Virtual Audio Cable ?

2010-01-29 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
Here's an example of what you can (and I did) do with VAC: I remoted my station audio from the PC that is connected to my Signalink to my laptop that I carry around the house using IPSound. IPSound wants to attach to a sound card for input and output, just like DM780 (or Fldigi, etc.). Indeed,

[digitalradio] Re: Super narrow filter: PSK31 with HB9DRV SDR-RADIO

2010-01-25 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
If you are using an IC7000 this is as easy as adding a filter slider control to either HRD, DM780 or both. It's not too hard from the front panel, either. There are also three filter presets. I'll leave one at full bandwidth and another at the bandwidth of the mode I'm using. 50Hz is no

[digitalradio] portable HF digital in the radio Re: Haiti a test for emcomms

2010-01-15 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
This sounds fairly complex. Why not just use a netbook? Volume-wise it's about the same if not better after all the cables and terminals are considered and if you have enough power to run digital (high duty cycle) on the radio you have enough for the netbook. --- In

[digitalradio] Re: Haiti a test for emcomms

2010-01-14 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
Some questions to consider: How many hams are there on Haiti? How many have survived? Of those that survived how many are too busy fighting for theirs and others lives, i.e. simply concentrating on rescue, water, shelter and food? Of the remainder how many have any kind of workable station

[digitalradio] Re: what's the latest on WINMOR

2009-12-21 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, jhaynesatalumni jhhay...@... wrote: I've sent mail from radio to Internet through a couple of them. What do you have to do to send mail in the other direction? Just send to your Winlink account. That would be your calls...@winlink.org. However note

[digitalradio] Re: what's the latest on WINMOR

2009-12-21 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
, aa777888athotmaildotcom aa777888@ wrote: Just send to your Winlink account. That would be your callsign@ However note carefully the spam control features that are in effect at http://www.winlink.org/help. You may need to add //WL2K to your subject line. Waiting mail is automatically

[digitalradio] Re: what's the latest on WINMOR

2009-12-20 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
There are now 4 beta RMS server stations on the air. I've transferred mail to/from the real world through one of them. It is all shaping up quite well. Now we just need a lot more RMS servers but Rick and Vic don't think the code is quite ready yet. It seems like there will be a good chance of

[digitalradio] Re: Nominations for 2009 Digitalradio Awards needed

2009-12-07 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
I believe RSID is old news, 2007 if not 2006. The recent surge in RSID use is really due to its excellent implementation in HRD 5.0. So from that perspective Simon should get an award for promulgating its use. However I will stick by my original statement that top honors this year should go

[digitalradio] Re: Nominations for 2009 Digitalradio Awards needed

2009-12-06 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
With all due respect to Patrick, all of his fantastic work and his fan club, this year really belongs to someone else. I nominate for a dual award, Best New Digital Mode and Digital Innovations Award: WINMOR and Rick Muething! This is perhaps the most significant advance in HF throughput, not

[digitalradio] Re: Getting serious about ALE for non-encomm digital hamming

2009-11-23 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Lindecker f6...@... wrote: Hello, Once an effective, simple and robust SELCAL standard is developed (again IMHO it should be a logical extension of the existing RSID and Call ID standards) it could eventually be parlayed into a more modern

[digitalradio] Re: Getting serious about ALE for non-encomm digital hamming

2009-11-22 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Andy obrien k3uka...@... wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:18 PM, aa777888athotmaildotcom aa777...@... wrote: I've gave PCALE a very good try. As implemented it suffers from several problems: 1. It is equipment specific and intensive. You

[digitalradio] Re: Getting serious about ALE for non-encomm digital hamming

2009-11-21 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
I've gave PCALE a very good try. As implemented it suffers from several problems: 1. It is equipment specific and intensive. You either need an SGC tuner set up for bypass-on-receive (the only brand I am aware of that has this capability) or a special antenna that is resonant and efficient on

[digitalradio] Re: Winmor Stats - large file, v 03.3.0

2009-11-08 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
10K is *not* a big file. But that's a GREAT rate! --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Cortland Richmond k...@... wrote: Sort of by accident sent a VERY large file (PDF of an ICS-123 form) today to Hoby on a MARS frequency. The good news is the throughput. Bandwidth: 1600

[digitalradio] Re: FLARQ outperforms WINMOR

2009-10-30 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
Definitely apples to oranges, Andy. One doesn't even need to get into a discussion of speed (although I've finally tweaked things so that I reliably get ~1Kbyte/min on a 1.6KHz mode S9 connection with 1-5K payload). The most important difference is that there is no promise of FLARQ being

[digitalradio] Re: Why so much interest in WINMOR?

2009-10-01 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
I'm one of those rabid Winmor testers. I have no experience at all with Pactor, etc. I have more than a bit of experience with sound card modes. My reason is that I want in on the Winlink network without the expense of buying a hardware TNC. I have no real interest in using Winmor for peer to

[digitalradio] Re: Winmor Path Simulaitons

2009-09-28 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Tony d...@... wrote: All, For what it's worth, I ran Winmor connect request signals through Moe Wheatley's path simulator. These tests are usually pretty good indicators of how digital modes perform and compare over a real HF channel. Thanks, Tony.

[digitalradio] Re: QRV - ALE-400

2009-08-28 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
Listened, called, didn't hear anything. 20M is usually pretty shut down when I'm home in the evening (after 8 local). Too bad you don't have 80M. If anyone in the northeast wants to try 80M some evening (NVIS path) let me know. I've always wanted to try ALE400 but find the MultiPSK interface

[digitalradio] Re: Universal Shipborne Automatic Identification System (AIS) ?

2009-07-29 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
They are not normal FM transmissions. AIS uses an emission designator of 16K0FD. More specifically, a 9.6kbps GMSK FM modulation using HDLC packet protocols. Almost everything you need to know is right here: http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/enav/ais/default.htm Scott --- In

[digitalradio] Re: Universal Shipborne Automatic Identification System (AIS) ?

2009-07-29 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
Google is your friend. Found this for you, but not sure if it works any good: http://www.coaa.co.uk/shipplotter.htm Scott --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Andrew O'Brien andrewob...@... wrote: Any public domain software that can decode it ? On 7/29/09, aa777888athotmaildotcom aa777

[digitalradio] Re: Hop, skip and jump away ... powerful, ALE implementation that would outperform MIL-STD-188-141A ?

2009-07-26 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
More precisely, step 1 is not usually a call to anybody, it is a call to either a single station (call) or group of stations (netcall), i.e. B THIS IS A. There is also any anycall (CQ) and a special anycall (sounding). In terms of there being a lightweight implementation I'd suggest that

[digitalradio] Re: More RSID - PLEASE!

2009-07-23 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
(Call sign, Locator...) which pops up on the waterfall. More about Call ID: http://f6cte.free.fr/The_Call_ID_and_Prop_ID_easy_with_Multipsk.doc given a 2 second RSID transmission length 1.4 seconds precisely. 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: aa777888athotmaildotcom

[digitalradio] Re: Compressing Data

2009-07-23 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Simon \(HB9DRV\) simon.br...@... wrote: Thinking to myself - when we use a mode such as Olivia / MT63 with extensive error correction, why don't we compress the text? Given that fldigi has the wrap feature then surely compression could be / should be

[digitalradio] Re: What mode on 14.109.50

2009-07-17 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
Almost certainly ALE. Did it sound like this: http://hflink.com/beta/ALEtest_allcall_AMDtext1.wav ? Scott --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dave Sparks dspa...@... wrote: Is sounds like it MIGHT be an ALE sounding. That was one of the main 20m freqs, but it was eventually moved to

[digitalradio] Re: Need help with PSK-31 and my antenna tuner

2009-07-16 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, doug_tara2005 doug_tara2...@... wrote: Hi, I'm having a little problem with my antenna tuner when transmitting PSK-31 above 30 watts. I have a IC-706MKIIG with a MFJ-945E. Both are on their own powersupply and well grounded. When I transmit

[digitalradio] Re: Use the *$%#ing RS ID!

2009-07-07 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Simon \(HB9DRV\) simon.br...@... wrote: 3) There's something called CALL-ID where you can add your call, so I could alert users that K3UK is on 20m looking for Olivia QSO's (or something like that). I haven't added CALL-ID yet. Simon, Great job on

[digitalradio] Re: Really beating the AGC issue with PSK ?

2009-05-28 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
Buy an IC7000 ;-) I run my 7000 with 150Hz filter width for PSK31 and if that's not small enough I'll put one or both manual notches into play to narrow things further. I can only define three filters and I have to do that at the rig, there is no provision to do it via CAT. But I can choose

[digitalradio] Re: One way propogation?

2009-05-25 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
If everyone is running the same antenna oriented the same way then it ought to be reciprocal paths. However that is rarely the case and it would seem not too unusual that forward and reverse paths are often different, sometimes substantially so. I'm always amazed how many verticals I can work

[digitalradio] Re: Contestia RTTYM

2009-05-21 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
VERY interesting, Jaak, thank you! Where do you feel MT63 would fall? Thanks, Scott k*b*l*0*0*q --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Jaak Hohensee jaak.hohen...@... wrote: Hi Simon and all I made some pathsimulations with RTTYM and Contestia from viewpoint QRP and contesting. My

[digitalradio] Re: MFSK16 Pictures - Multipsk / DM780 / Fldigi

2009-05-09 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
This does indeed work. I have sent and received photos using fldigi with both fldigi and DM780 users so those programs do interoperate. fldigi has a proprietary high-speed picture mode as well. While we are on the subject I have had no problem receiving photos but all photos I send are

[digitalradio] Re: Fldigi RSID

2009-05-08 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
Yes but nobody ever runs RSID TX ID (except me :-) I've spent hours with fldigi RSID receive mode turned on just to watch it work once (and in entire pass band mode). It's never once made a detection and I've never seen an RSID burst on the waterfall myself. K*B*l*0*0*Q --- In

[digitalradio] Re: Fldigi RSID

2009-05-08 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
, Rick, KV9U aa777888athotmaildotcom wrote: Yes but nobody ever runs RSID TX ID (except me :-) I've spent hours with fldigi RSID receive mode turned on just to watch it work once (and in entire pass band mode). It's never once made a detection and I've never seen an RSID burst

[digitalradio] Re: Remote control

2009-04-28 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
Rick, This is exactly what I do. Difficulty varies from completely trivial to impossible depending on how comfortable with computers you are :-) Hardware and installation requirements: 1. CAT interface for your Icom. I use a Rigtalk. 2. Computer near your Icom. Any 1GHz Windows machine will

[digitalradio] HRD 5.0

2009-04-27 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
This is obviously meant for Simon (Hi Simon!): So what do we have to look forward to in the HRD 5.0 version of DM780? RX and TX sound card calibration for all modes, I hope! This is the major missing element that drives me to fldigi as my setup requires a calibration in order to be successful

[digitalradio] Re: HRD 5.0

2009-04-27 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
and bopping along nicely. And then late in 2009 - DM780 integration with my own SDR console. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: aa777888athotmaildotcom aa777...@... So what do we have to look forward to in the HRD 5.0 version of DM780?

[digitalradio] Re: HRD 5.0

2009-04-27 Thread aa777888athotmaildotcom
- Original Message - From: aa777888athotmaildotcom aa777...@... I am very much looking forward to this release. I tend to push the software to the limit in many ways and try hard not to whine when I push it over its limit!