Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in
:
I will get the last laugh though. When all this digital crap
lays
down and dies in a massive solar burst, those of us who still
have
analog gear and a bug or key will be the ones who can
communicate and
then WE WILL RULE THE WORLD!!
What nonsense. My PSK31 station can copy a signal so weak I
can't even hear the tones and it barely makes a track on the
waterfall display of Winwarbler, which can copy THREE of them
SIMULTANEOUSLY. You don't even need to buy some bogus "box" hams
always seem to need. Just let the computer listen to the
headphone jack.
I worked a guy in New Zealand on 14.070 PSK31 running 80mw to a
20M vertical! NO MORSE operator is that good.....or that fast.
Bull****.
Larry W4CSC
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If you have an HF receiver and a Windows PC, download Winwarbler
from:
http://www.dxlabsuite.com/winwarbler/
Plug your receiver's headphone audio output into your computer
sound card's mic or line in jack so the sound card can listen to
the radio. Tune the receiver to LSB on 14.070 Mhz and leave it
there. The sideband receiver's bandwidth is around 4Khz, the
full width of the 20 meter PSK band. Every tiny pair of faint
lines running down that display are SEPARATE stations chatting
away on PSK31 or 63. Click one of the three Winwarbler windows
to highlight and switch to that window. Then, click your mouse
over the center of one of the little tracks, no matter how faint.
Repeat this with the other two channels of Winwarbler on
different stations across the display, ever so slightly a few
hertz apart in frequency. All three stations will print
SIMULTANEOUSLY as they are typing. This technology was invented
BY HAMS, FOR HAMS, to replace quirky, pulsating commercial
nonsense.
PSK stations typically run only 10 watts, not kilowatts, to
reduce interference between each other caused by intermodulation
distortion in the transmitters and overloading of the receivers
listening worldwide. We can run the power up to 1500W PEP, but
that's never necessary or wanted, jamming the narrow bandwidth it
uses. It's simply AMAZING how far DOWN you can turn your power
output on PSK and still carry on a full text conversation with
someone on the other side of this planet. 80 milliwatts to New
Zealand, both ways....simply amazing.
Download and install WinWarbler. It's free. Give it a listen
while you're bored to tears sitting becalmed and fed up doing
boatwork.