that's true, with a lot of activity it can be tough, it's something to play 
with though.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: New Frequencies


> jaws will read a single incoming signal in digipan, but if there are more
> then one, it garbles things up pretty bad.
> In PSK31, you have to be able to choose a signal on the water fall and I
> don't know of a software that allows that to be done manually or
> non-graphically.
> There are offten multiple conversations going on at once on the digital 
> mode
> freqs and without the ability to choose which signals to listen to, it 
> gets
> pretty difficult to figure out what is being said.
> However, perhaps there are some other programs some people have played 
> with
> that allow for manual selection on the water fall or that are more screen
> reader friendly.
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dan" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 6:08 PM
> Subject: Re: New Frequencies
>
>
>> Speaking of PSK31, or any digital mode like that, is most o of the
> software
>> for that accessible?  Like will screenreaders be able to read what is on
> the
>> screen?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators 
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Colin McDonald
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 19:39
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: New Frequencies
>>
>> I guess that makes me a chicken bander.
>> I never new until now.
>> That attitude is what is making ham radio an antiquated, excentric
>> non-progressive hobby in many places.
>> Who wants to learn to communicate using a bunch of short and long beeps
> when
>> you can talk, or use digital modes using computers.
>> Learning CW has to be the most awcward thing imaginable at first.  Until
> you
>> become really good at it, its slow, tedious and takes much more time to
>> convey a thought then simply speaking it or sending it via pSK31 or other
>> digital modes.
>> And the idea that CW is the one and only method of communication that can
>> get through when nothing else can is also a very outdated theory.
>> Any digital mode will accomplish the same task, and offen with much lower
>> error rate then a typical CW operater who is attempting to pull a signal
> out
>> of the noise, or below the noise floor.
>> Using PSK31, you offten can't even hear the signal, but the computer can
> and
>> puts it out to the screen as text.
>> So the idea that not learning some antiquated form of communicated just
> for
>> the sake of doing so, and therefore getting a free ride because you 
>> didn't
>> have to learn it is a very narow minded and outdated point of view.
>>
>> Now, all that said, i think CW is a very important aspect of amateur 
>> radio
>> below 30MHZ and that it certainly has its place and usage.  I don't
> begrudge
>> anyone their decision to use any mode of communication on any amateur
>> frequency.
>> However, i really don't believe anyone mode should be chosen over all the
>> rest as one that a person must have near to absolute  perficiency in in
>> order to communicate below 30MHZ.
>>
>> Naturally, the arguement that CW transmitters and receivers are some of
> the
>> simplest and easy to setup and operate when compared to voice or digital
>> stations always comes up.  It comes up in the context of emergency
> measures
>> or emergency communications.
>> If that arguement is made, then the argument must also be made to include
>> vastly more emergency training aspects to the general class or extra 
>> class
>> licensing examinations.
>> If you are going to force someone to learn CW because there just might be
> a
>> once in a life time situation where they absolutely must use it, then it
>> should also be required for those same individuals to learn vast amounts
> of
>> procedural knoledge regarding emergency communications and procedures.
>>
>> Its a great mode, but its not the most important anymore.
>>
>> 73
>> Colin, V A6BKX
>