can you do pSK31 with a tech license? I forget if so what equipment do I
need to join in?
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: New Frequencies
> it takes some doing, but you can do PSK31, digital can be worked with to
> work, and that's an accessible PSK31 program that is self voicing, problem
> is, the voice goes out on the air though I have played with a few things
> and
> made it useable. Also, the one for sighted people, digipan, you can work
> with that one, I've done it. the problem is, you need 2 sound cards. I
> have
> an external sound card on my radio desk computer, used to have the
> echolink
> link interface plugged in to it but I guess since that's down for now, I
> might use it for the digital modes for a bit. It is doable. Pactor and
> stuff
> like that you can do, I haven't tried them all but I think we can pretty
> much do any of them. Probably not the TV modes but so far, anything else
> seems possible. I'll play with it over the winter and fill people in as I
> work with things. I'm single this winter so have all that time I was with
> my
> gf last year, to play radio. She had every second last winter.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 8:08 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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