Topband: Unofficial archive of the works from the early pioneers of Amateur Radio's digital communications era

2018-12-24 Thread n4is
What is CCW? Amateur Radio Coherent CW was invented by Ray Petit, W7GHM. He is also the inventor of Clover now manufactured by HAL Communications. The first amateur QSO was by Andy McCaskey, WA7ZVC using a Ten-Tec PM-1. CCW was promoted by Chas. Woodson (Woody), W6NEY a professor at Stanford

Re: Topband: FT8 - How it really works

2018-12-24 Thread JC
Jerry The new mode FT8 is not all that new, actually, there are several aspects to consider, like detect the signal, decode the signal detected, make a decision to accept the decoded signal. The improvement on signal to noise ratio concept is very old, just the internet made it possible with

Re: Topband: FT8 - How it really works

2018-12-24 Thread Tim Shoppa
Chuck, I suspect something wasn’t quite right with your setup? At my QTH in W3 I can hear multiple FT8 signals on 1840kc USB (2.4khz bandwidth) from before my sunset until after sunrise. They are whining/droning carriers for 13 seconds every 15 seconds. Only for that less than 2 seconds every

Re: Topband: FT8 - How it really works

2018-12-24 Thread Eugene Popov /RA0FF/ via Topband
Hi, we use 4ports-RX-splitter https://www.ebay.com/itm/4-WAY-HF-ANTENNA-SPLITTER-COMBINER-RX-0-1-50-MHz-SO-239-connectors/322564884873?hash=item4b1a5d8989:g:JJ4AAOxyM89Sbujo:rk:1:pf:0   73! de Eugene RA0FF http://www.qsl.net/ra0ff/ >Вторник, 25 декабря 2018, 8:17 +11:00 от Chuck Dietz : > >I

Re: Topband: FT8 - How it really works

2018-12-24 Thread Chuck Dietz
I think I understand much of what you are saying, but I know that I was on 160 meter FT=8 two nights ago with the speaker up fairly loud. I only heard noise. I set the AGC off and adjusted the RF gain so that it did not overload. Still no hint of any signals, but I decoded two stations! Just

Re: Topband: FT8 - How it really works

2018-12-24 Thread K4SAV
Although I have finished my FT8 testing, there is one final thought I would like to leave with you, and also to correct one statement I made earlier. Someone thought FT8 measured the noise in the interval when the FT8 signals were off, and I replied that would result in a real S/N number.

Re: Topband: Three Port Rx antenna splitter

2018-12-24 Thread Eric NO3M
Corrected the autotransformer turns/tap on the 2-way splitter examples... http://no3m.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/splitters.png On 12/24/18 1:57 PM, Eric NO3M wrote: Frank If you really want a 3-port splitter, see here: http://no3m.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/splitter-3.png Two more

Re: Topband: Three Port Rx antenna splitter

2018-12-24 Thread Eric NO3M
Frank If you really want a 3-port splitter, see here: http://no3m.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/splitter-3.png Two more common alternatives using 2-port splitters: http://no3m.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/splitters.png 73 Eric NO3M On 12/24/18 8:00 AM, Frank VO1HP wrote: Does anyone

Re: Topband: Three Port Rx antenna splitter

2018-12-24 Thread Greg - ZL3IX
Hi Frank, I don't know anything about 3-way splitters, but if I were in your situation I think I would sacrifice 1 dB and make a 4-way splitter using 3x 2-way splitters. 2-way is much more commonly used and documented, and quite probably easier to achieve than 3-way. The 4th port is simply

Re: Topband: Morning Openings to Europe from Oregon

2018-12-24 Thread W7RH
All, As Tree noted I've been able to get into Eastern Central and Norther Europe this past week. Truly a very rare case from this far south. The northern guys have an hour more darkness than at my latitude. The openings have been somewhat spotty.  I do not rely on RBN spots. Most RBN do not

Topband: Three Port Rx antenna splitter

2018-12-24 Thread Frank VO1HP
Does anyone have a schematic for a 75ohm three port splitter using #73 binocular cores. I have those on hand. Need to feed beverage to two TS590SG’s and Skimmer SDR in CQWW160. 73 Frank VO1HP -- Sent from Gmail Mobile _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Topband: RF in the DX Eng. NCC-1 (and a fix)

2018-12-24 Thread Rob Atkinson
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year: On 160 m. (probably due to the close proximity to my inverted L) my NCC-1 rx antenna phasing box would snap crackle and pop on transmit, most likely the result of RF getting into the nine relay coils inside. If you employ phased rx antennas and a tx antenna,