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Re: LF: opera coding demistified

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Subject: Re: LF: opera coding demistified
From: "Graham" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:41:17 +0100
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No Albert ... these  are  all  TX methods , which is  a good  thing  as   Opera  is also  part of the  second  generation   vhf  fixed  beacons , so  various  ways  of  generating the  TX code  are / will  be  needed ....
 
We are  'all'  waiting  for  a  second  party    DSP decode  hardware/ software , that  can  receive  and  decode  the  message , in the  mean time , we  can  all use the free   windows  version ...  may  be for  some  time  I think ?
 
73-G.

From: Albert
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: LF: opera coding demistified

All,

Who is still receiving and reporting at the end of the day. If we all start building smart PIC and other means to generate Opera.
Do I miss something here, or are that only the stupid ones that use a PC to generate/receive and report Opera ?

73, Albert PA0A


  

Op 17-7-2012 12:14, M0FMT schreef:
Hi All
 
Why lock up a PC to beacon Opera? I use G4JNT's excelent PIC progragram. He supplies the Hexadecimal code for you to program your own PIC which gives you just that little bit more satifaction in building a PIC based project.
It is easy to build has full OP modes and sensible and adjustable interval timing, no bigger than a matchbox!.
 
73 es GL Pete M0FMT IO91UX
From: Markus Vester <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, 16 July 2012, 23:18
Subject: Re: LF: opera coding demistified

Stefan Schaefer wrote
> G.., i have done it. Downloaded ... to my LF PC. Still can't belive it...
... well, I haven't ;-) Out of curiosity, I have instead implemented Guido's excellent guide on Opera encoding 
in a little Basic program, which outputs the 110... keying sequence for any given callsign.
 
And it works! For a quick on air test, I decided to use SpecLab's test signal generator, modulated by an arbitrary waveform which can be loaded from a text file. To fit to the required data format, I edited the sequence by zero-padding from 239 to 256 symbols, then replacing every "1" by two lines of "32767", and every "0" by two lines of "0", giving 512 samples total. For "Op4" speed, the AM modulator period was set to 0.256*4*256 = 262.144 seconds. Audio output was used to key my TX on 478.63 kHz. I sent for strings on Saturday night 21:30 to 21:47, and within a few minutes, pskreporter.de showed spots from DF2JP, G8HUH, ON6EO and DD7PC.
 
In case you would also like to send Opera without "his master's software", or associate obscure received sequences with possible candidates, the little program and sourcecode is at
 
Best 73,
Markus (DF6NM)
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 11:48 AM
Subject: LF: opera coding demistified

PE1NNZ seems to have demistified the opera coding, those interested can read the attached file.

73, Rik  ON7YD - OR7T
 




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