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"Lynn Coffelt" wrote in news:tbadnVgInsG10ZjeRVn-
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fairly good HF receiver

Just don't set the receiver for RTTY or some narrowband mode. PSK31 is
made to operate with the simplest of SSB transceivers. It's premise is
that it can hear a 2.4-3.0Khz bandwidth so it can hear all the stations at
once and display them on the waterfall. If you don't see noise dots across
the waterfall display, but only in a small area, you're using way too
narrow a bandwidth filter. Just set it for normal SSB, plug the headphone
jack into the LINE IN on the computer and you're ready to copy everyone.
There's great DX on PSK31 and the newer PSK modes on 14.070. Too bad the
sunspots have gone and propagation is just awful. We can hardly hear our
friends in Switzerland and have gone to Echolink on the net so we can talk
to them on their VHF/UHF repeaters. You must be a licensed ham to get on
Echolink.

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Larry