what is your favorite to use?
and how do you use this for listening to these transmissions and decoding
them?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: New Frequencies
> It's been a while since I played with Digipan, but at least in previous
> versions, you can check a menu item that allows you to use the left and
> right arrow keys to jump to the next signal on the waterfall without using
> the mouse.
>
> And the Digitalk psk program for the blind is still out there, but not my
> favorite.
>
> Steve KW3A
> ----- 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
>>
>>
>>
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