Posted: 8/2/2012 6:58:46 PM EDT
| Got any tutorials on amateur digital operations? Im only technician class |
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Welcome to the ham forum! I don't think we have a dedicated "how-to" for the digital modes thread, but wht questions do you have?
Maybe we should start a digi how-to..hmm. Randy, K7AGE has some educational vids on 'the tube. PKK 31 vid ETA link |
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main idea is to somehow build a digital net for all us arfcommers. maybe even integrate it to the mothership. would that be possible?
I have a bit of digital comms training (EC135 looking glass comms maint tech pipeline tech school) plus do cisco routing/switching for a living but know nothing about it related to amatuer |
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Welcome to the ham forum! I don't think we have a dedicated "how-to" for the digital modes thread, but wht questions do you have? Maybe we should start a digi how-to..hmm. Randy, K7AGE has some educational vids on 'the tube. PKK 31 vid ETA link it's what I used to break myself in! those make it make sense!!! DigiPan (for PSK31) and FLDigi (Olivia ARFCOM Net) are the 2 software programs I use (search and they are free) ETA: you can use the FlDigi Program to decipher the weekly ARFCOM net on Wed nights if you have an appropriate receiver just like Randy shows in his vids using PSK31 |
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main idea is to somehow build a digital net for all us arfcommers. maybe even integrate it to the mothership. would that be possible? I have a bit of digital comms training (EC135 looking glass comms maint tech pipeline tech school) plus do cisco routing/switching for a living but know nothing about it related to amatuer We have a weekly digital net on Weds evenings. Here is alink to the thread. We tried packet (a form of digi comms) a few months back but there weren't enough people on to make it work. Packet requires a pretty good signal to be effective. We have found however, that Olivia 16/500 (another digi-mode) works pretty well even with weak signals. i don't know how you would interface it with "the mother ship". 
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PSKmail actually allows web pages to me mailed to you, but I think "mother ship" interfacing wouldn't be practical due
to bandwidth constraints. Unfortunately it uses modes that aren't as robust as olivia. (Was interesting last net night comparing Olivia 500/16 v. PSK125's speed v. copy.) |
The Texas Army MARS website has some great 'digital mode tutorials' as well as other great info. Check out the 'Basic Sound Card Training' document.  https://www.txarmymars.org/training/ I, personally, do a lot of MT63, Olivia, and peer-to-peer Pactor....and a little PSK. MT63 is pretty reliable and faster than Olivia. Pactor smokes them all but requires a 'proprietary' modem for Pactor II & III. Pactor 4 is now out, but I don't forsee spending the dough for a new modem when III works as well as it does. |
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This and his other PSK vids is what got me interested in digi modes. Set up a few macros and you'll be making contacts in no time.
[edited to be slightly less crude] |