Re: Oops: FH0POL Antartica is on the air on 10m.
Demetre Koumanakos <sv1ens@...>
At 17:03 3/3/2002 +0000, you wrote::-) I was so excited that I typed it wrong, Kings Island...Hi All,HF0POL, I guess, Mirek from S. Shetland Islands. --- 73 Demetre - SV1ENS Amazing Radio Amateur Software Repository: http://www.qsl.net/sv1ens _________________________________________________________________ http://fastmail.ca/ - Fast Secure Web Email for Canadians
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Jim's GAZETTE #117
N3DQU@...
Jim's GAZETTE
Newsletter #117 5 March 2002 Please feel free to forward this newsletter to any and all interested parties, or to reproduce it in any other publication. All we ask is that you give credit where it is due. SHORT NOTES: Forgive me for being 24 hours early, but tomorrow the house will be filled with construction people. And, I will be out of touch. Hopefully, it will be done soon! Bill K9GWT of HAL Communications reports that the P-38 modem is not discontinued. Units are on hand and the company will be happy to fill your order at any time. The PCI-4000 is another matter. It is available only in special runs of 50 or more copies. Call Bill if you are interested. By the way, the latest software update for the P-38 supports the use of sound cards and the waterfall display for all modes Clover to PSK-31. The update is free and is available from www.halcomm.com. Version 1.32 of Mailwasher is now at the website at www.mailwasher.net. No need to uninstall the earlier version before installing 1.32. Just double click the .exe file. The Anatolian WW RTTY Contest will be run on 18-19 May. ANARAD is the sponsor and their website is at www.qsl.net/ta4kg/rtty/anatolian.html. Talat TA4BS is the head man and can be reached by Email at anarad@ttnet.net.tr. Dayton is just around the corner! All kinds of plans can be made and confirmed at www.rttyjournal.com. This year the RTTY world will be located at the Howard Johnson Hotel. It's $85 per night, plus taxes, of course. Don't forget to reserve seats at the two dinners! Frank N2FF will once again moderate the forum. Program to be announced. The DigiPan website has been discontinued. But don't worry. It's simply been moved to another one. Http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hteller/digipan/ is the address now. Please note that the current version remains 1.6d. V1.7 is not yet ready for release. Google.com, my favorite search engine, has been enhanced. Bill NA2M picked up the address from PC World magazine and thinks it is pretty neat. Try it at www.ilor.com. Lots of Internet bandwidth got invested in discussing the PW0T operation.Operating split, the DX station seemed confusing to some, chaotic to others. Many referees were on frequency as well so the situation really screwed up. 'UP' 'UP' 'UP,' typed the referees. Barry W2UP was sure he was being called! Finally, some said, things became a bit less hectic. But Ekki, DF4OR, reminded us all of what the real problem might be. 'During the last three days I tried H40T, PW0T and TI9M, all in vain. It requires all my patience and restraint not to send some cruise missiles to certain stations who call simplex and deliberately jam the DX frequency. Since the invention of the DX Cluster, every moron knows where the DX is located . . . my father taught me to be patient and listen and figure out the pattern of the DX station before calling on the wrong frequency.' Amen! I've never made a mistake before, but George W2TUM called my attention to a mistake made by my informant! This has to do with the 20:02 20/02 2002 comment, wherein I suggested it would be another 1001 years before a similar thing happens again. Actually, George points out that it will be only 110 years and will take place in 2112. I guess I can wait to see if he is correct. Then I will admit my error! Peter G3PLX presented his 'Natural Law of Frequency Allocation' in Newsletter #116. His thesis suggested that broader bandwidth creates more QRM than it suffers, thus, any band plan should put modes of similar bandwidth in the same space. His proposal stimulated a fair amount of activity among those with an interest in Pactor III, an emerging mode using 2.4 kHz of spectrum. First off, Joost ZS5S circulated a portion of the Newsletter to all the mailboxes around the world. Among the responses was an important one from Vic Poor W5SMM. The father of Aplink and Winlink, Vic is a very knowledgeable guy when it comes to digital operation on HF. Vic pulled no punches. He stated, 'I agree with G3PLX on this one. The view that like bandwidths should share their own sub-bands reduces to a minimum conflicts between modes.' He goes on to point out that Pactor III should move up the dial and join HF Packet, another wide mode (300 baud is equal to 1.5 kHz of space). Then, to my surprise, Vic suggested that those who use Pactor III should avoid using 20 or 40 meters because of the load these bands already carry. 80, 30, 17 and 15 meters provide adequate propagation for the Winlink user community. All of this suggested peace and quiet until the next Email arrived. Rudolf HS0/DL1ZAV who operates HS0AC jumped in with a loud voice. 'HS0AC has NOT cleared the QRG 14.072.5 / 14.069.5 and will not clear these QRG's ! It will not change till I give up Ham Radio. And if Pactor 3 is available than HS0AC will use it!' (Note that the complete text of these two Emails are contained in the thread at www.n2hos.com/digital/peter.html). Rudolph's tough response was enough to suggest to me that a little research might be in order. So, I took the latest list of classic Pactor MBO's (published monthly by ZS5S) and ran down the list of scanned (standard center) frequencies for each station. Much to my surprise, there is far more scanning activity in the PSK area than I had imagined. No wonder we see so many of those twin tracks on the waterfall. Vic's note suggested that Winlink sysops had agreed to abandon 14070-72. I checked only the over-scanned 20 meter frequencies and found that the following Pactor MBOs are scanning in areas that might well present problems for PSK-31 fans. 9Y4IBN: 14071.4**AL7PI: 14068.9 and 69.9**DJ6HH: 14070.4 (one of 8 frequencies scanned on 20M!!)**F3KT: 14070.9**F6FUB: 14070.9**I5FLN: 14068.9**N7QDN: 14068.9 and 69.9**OH2NPE: 14069.9**OK0PBR: 14068.9 and70.9**VK2AAB: 14070.9**VK2OG: 14068.9**W4NPX: 14069.9 and 71.9**WU3V: 14069.9 and 70.9**DK0MUN: 14069.4**JA8HK: 14069.8 and 71.9**K1UOL: 14068.4**ON0BEL: 14068.4 and 69.9, 70.9**OZ4SCA: 14068.4 and 69.45, 70.9, 71.9**SV1IW: 14068.9 and 70.9 T90BOX: 14069.9 and every kHz to 89.9**W7IJ: 14068.9**WA1URA: 14068.9 and 70.4**KA6IQA: 14070.9. Keep in mind that standard center frequencies are not the same as the upper side-band numbers used by PSK. But, also keep in mind that, while PSK utilizes only 31 Hz for its low power signal, Pactor gobbles up several times as much. Any splatter adds to the problem. Just take a careful look at your waterfall and you'll have some idea of the difference. Pactor III, if used by the stations listed above, would totally swamp the PSK space and much more both up and down the current digital space. Clearly, G3PLX has it right. Pactor III must move up the band into the HF Packet arena or their will be open warfare between it and all other forms of digital communications. And, while the world awaits the new Pactor product, perhaps more and more of the MBO's could follow the lead of sysops like ZS5S and K4CJX who skip way over the narrow modes by scanning below 14064 and above 14074. That's the spirit! That's Natural Frequency Allocation! 73 de Jim N2HOS jem@n2hos.com http://www.n2hos.com/digital
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MDXA PSK-31 DeathMatch results
Costas Krallis SV1XV <sv1xv@...>
MDXA PSK 31 DeathMatch
Fred Scully,K0VK 2001 PSK 31 DeathMatch Trophy Winner DeathMatch 2001 Winners Circle The Winners Are Fred Scully,K0VK. Top Overall score of 251x29= 7279 points QRP and winner of the DeathMatch Trophy. The 25 watt winner and 2nd place overall winner is Rick Sheetz,W6FMO with a score of 192 x 30= 5760 points. Winning the 3rd place overall and 2nd in the 25 watt category is Fragiskos Dactilidis,SV1DVY Of Piraeus,Greece with 105 x 32= 3360 points. From the MDXA web site: http://www.geocities.com/mdxa1/deathmatch.html +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Costas Krallis SV1XV * LOC KM18UA | | P.O.Box 3066 * E-Mail: sv1xv@eexi.gr | | GR-10210 Athens * PGP key: 0x3BDBBC34 | | GREECE * http://www.qsl.net/sv1xv/ | | * http://w4u.eexi.gr/~sv1xv/ | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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30 meters
DL2AYL@...
Have worked on 30 meter the first dx yesterday and the band is open again to
the USA, just had qso with W3WTE in PSK. 73's Erika/DL2AYL
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Re: YO-Endorsement
Steve W3HF
During the last year I have heard in PSK-31:I have also worked YO3JW YO4GDP YO5BBO YO8FR YO9FYP Unfortunately these were all prior to 19 Jan 2002, so my only QSO towards the endorsement is my one with YO5CRQ during the PSKfest. :-( Steve W3HF
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Re: YO-Endorsement
DL2AYL@...
Zoli is right about the active hams in Romania, they just went off PSK or
into hiding after the YO-Endorsement was put up. /3's Erika/DL2AYL
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Re: YO-Endorsement
Costas Krallis SV1XV <sv1xv@...>
At 13:20 3/3/2002 -0500, you wrote:
During the last year I have heard in PSK-31:How do you manage this - the day you announceHmmmm.....Well, Zoli assured me that there are 40-some YO's on hf running PSK. YO2BB 80 YO2BE 20 YO2BZV 20 YO2MAD 40 YO4DFT 40 YO4UQ 20 YO5CRQ 10-80 YO6CFB/QRP 15 So there is some PSK-31 activity in Romania, just wait for the TARA Rumble. 73 Costas SV1XV +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Costas Krallis SV1XV * LOC KM18UA | | P.O.Box 3066 * E-Mail: sv1xv@eexi.gr | | GR-10210 Athens * PGP key: 0x3BDBBC34 | | GREECE * http://www.qsl.net/sv1xv/ | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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Oops: FH0POL Antartica is on the air on 10m.
Costas Krallis SV1XV <sv1xv@...>
At 17:03 3/3/2002 +0000, you wrote:
Hi All,HF0POL, I guess, Mirek from S. Shetland Islands. Costas SV1XV
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FH0POL Antartica is on the air on 10m.
sv1ens <sv1ens@...>
Hi All,
FH0POL (VP8) is on the air now 17:00 UTC PSK 10m. SV1ENS
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Endorsements mailed
N3DQU@...
Endorsements mailed out yesterday for OK2MF, DK3FCP, SV1XV, DL2AYL and
YO5CRQ...Please let me know when you get them...73 de Jay N3DQU.
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Re: YO-Endorsement
N3DQU@...
In a message dated 3/2/2002 11:56:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, DL2AYL@... writes:
Hi Jay, Hmmmm.....Well, Zoli assured me that there are 40-some YO's on hf running PSK. I wonder if he said that just to see Romania on the endorsements page hi! Jay N3DQU.
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Re: YO-Endorsement
DL2AYL@...
Yes, that must be something like that, I'm just
wondering how Jay made the way on my roof.
Erika/DL2AYL
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Re: YO-Endorsement
Dick Thompson <wb0dul@...>
Don't feel bad, Erika. I haven't seen one even before
the endorsement was announced. :)
73,
Dick
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Re: YO-Endorsement
Ernest Mills <emills@...>
Uhmm! just worked YO9ALY, Mircea at 1558z on
10m :) Ernie
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Re: PW0T (Dxpedition operating)
Costas Krallis SV1XV <sv1xv@...>
At 11:09 2/3/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Yes, they do. I have heard it a few times on SSB pileups!Before you blame PW0T for responding to calls on their own frequency,Hmmm, that is interesting....I didn't think the freq cops were smart enough to pull off something like that, but that does sound plausible....Jay N3DQU. Costas SV1XV +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Costas Krallis SV1XV * LOC KM18UA | | P.O.Box 3066 * E-Mail: sv1xv@eexi.gr | | GR-10210 Athens * PGP key: 0x3BDBBC34 | | GREECE * http://www.qsl.net/sv1xv/ | | * http://w4u.eexi.gr/~sv1xv/ | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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Re: YO-Endorsement
Zoltan Bordas <borzol@...>
This is happening to me also almost like your case,
Erika... I was full of EA stations last year even when I called DX... and very
few found this year, HI.
Returning to the YO endorsement, I try to be on frequency
almost every day at least 1...2 hours (as my job permits). I didn't like the ATA
contest last year when no one TA station was there (well, maybe there was, but I
didn't see them...). This morning I worked YO4UQ on 20m, last night on 80m found
YO8 and others also.
Hope all interested stations will find 5 YO px's sooner or
later... I make the proganda to activate as much as I can...
73 de Zoli / YO5CRQ
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Re: YO-Endorsement
Steve W3HF
I think it's like the spanish-speaking diodes that Steve N6YIH has in his antenna line. hi hi Actually, I saw both YO9ALY and YO6BHN on 10m PSK about an hour ago. Didn't get either, though. :-( 73, Steve W3HF
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YO-Endorsement
DL2AYL@...
Hi Jay,
How do you manage this - the day
you announce
a new special endorsement the
special stations
disappear completely. Haven't seen
any YO since the
release of the
YO-endorsement.
73's
Erika/DL2AYL
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Re: PW0T (Dxpedition operating)
Richard B Drake
Interestinly also, on CW the idiot frequency cops
are usually not smart enough to exactly match the DX stations frequency and
keying characteristics. Therefore it is generally quite easy to tell a pirate
from the real McCoy. On PSK, it is not so easy to tell the
difference.
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73,
Rich - W3ZJ
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Re: PW0T (Dxpedition operating)
AA8QQJMauch@...
Especially if you run with the AFC always on.On PSK, it is not so easy to tell the difference. Jay - AA8QQ
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