Hi Steve,
Wow, what a thorough and helpful reply! I really appreciate all of
the info, even if some of the programs you mention don't work that well,
because I now have a little history of what has been tried. Since the
programs (I think) are freeware, there's no harm in trying a couple of them.
I probably will avoid the one that stopped working with Xp: my only working
computer right now is running Windows 7. I haven't read the article to which
you sent me a link but I plan to do that shortly.
My interest in PSK was sparked this weekend at a Special Event
station. In fact, listening to someone else use it brought to mind an email
on this list from a couple of years ago where someone talked about racking
up all kinds of qsos in Field Day, using psk. What impresses me most is
that you can make contact with very little power, and that even if a sation
isn't audible in the noise, it is decodable, digitally. This makes the psk
mode great for qrp, an apartment, or difficult band conditions. Furthermore,
it uses so little bandwidth.
Once I saw psk in operation this weekend, I also thought about a
friend of mine in the same radio club who is very hard of hearing. Noone has
ever thought to suggest that this might be a perfect hamming mode for him:
he had pretty much given up on anything with a low sig/noise ration--he
pretty much has been hanging out on the club's two-meter repeater. It really
rekindled his hope for HF operation, and he went home pretty excited about
it. So, it was nice being able to give another person with a disability a
hand.
I like your idea about RTTY, too, and I'll definitely give it a try.
Thanks again for such a helpful reply.
73,
Dave W I 3 Y
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From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Steve Forst
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 10:07 AM
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Subject: Re: Best way to do PSK31 with JAWS. Has anyone had experience
running PSK31 with JAWS? I'd love any suggestions for best software and any
tips on configuration.
Dave,
I didn't reply earlier since I'm neither a PSK nor JAWS geek, but figured
I'd throw this out for what it's worth. Probably not much.
Digitalk is a free psk program for the blind. It is self voicing. It has
few options, is kind of basic and crude, but does work on a Windows
98 pc. It stopped working in some early incarnation of XP, after some
Windows update or service pack release. The author has no interest in
redoing the software for more modern operating systems.
Digipan is another free program that some of us have played around with over
the years. It's main problem with JAWS is that it repeats each word in a
sentance as the next word is added. This becomes a royal pain. Using the
JAWS cursor is one way around this, but I find it cumbersome. I had very
limited success in setting the rx font to a super high number. Perhaps
getting each word on it's own line is what
stopped the repetition. problem is that it didn't work all the time,
was not repeatable, and there seemed to be no rhyme or reason as to when or
why it would work.
Another option is to read the article on the link below. This all seems a
bit much and I'll wait until someone comes up with something a bit less
complicated.
www.HamRadioAndVision.com.
Look for the link that says something like "screen reader access to digital
modes".
My personal digital preference is RTTY which I do with the free MMTTY
software and JAWS. With some trial and error I got a JAWS frame
around the received text window and got JAWS to read it fairly well.
Maybe something similar would work with Digipan or one of the other
programs. Or perhaps the idea of sending text from the digi program to
some other program that JAWS will read well. (On the order of what the
guy in the article is doing).
73, Good luck, Steve KW3A
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