Hi Stefan
I am sure Gary is keeping track of the modes he is testing.
All I can say is that RTTY, Amtor and most common MFSK modes are too
fast for use by lower power stations of for greater distance
working, and wide often.
I set my criteria on being able to communicate 2 way over 100Km from
my wee station and Class D PA. JT Modes do the job but being not
real keyboard modes and the limited message capability (everyone now
knows I have no dog or a cat) put those in the boring category.
Years before all the internet connected, time sync'd and bloated
software arrived, work was done on narrow, slow MFSK modes. GMFSK
has been the most sophisticated of these tried here up to now. Not
only does it work but it is fast enough to allow full speed, live, 2
finger, arthritic grandad typing QSO's with no long lead in sync, or
tail.
If I am around using GMFSK I will be on 476.100. Getting more people
interested so that there is a possibility of random QSO's, err, I
will leave that to you.
73 Eddie
P.S. Mal, yes missing him already.
PPS. I had my first QRSS3 QSO today with G4AYT 167Km daytime path,
not random though.
On 13/03/2013 14:53, Stefan Schäfer wrote:
Hi Eddie, LF/MF,
I'm a bit confused in the last days by the number of various
digimodes
which have been tested. Gary started with RTTY which is fun and
allows
real QSOs on 630m, apart from CW. But if each mode is done as a
short
test to check its performance, then it quickly becomes boring.
What i
would like to have is a mode which is used by several active
amateurs,
a real QSO mode like CW. A mode that lasts longer than a day. I
thought
that AMTOR-FEC could be useful but i didn't make any tests yet.
However
if i have to assume that there will be 2 or 3 interested QSO
partners
who will be available for a short test QSO and then QSY to
GADFDSMSFASKMDKFK-4 or whatever, then none of these modes are
actually
interesting for me and i come back to CW where i can be sure to
find a
QSO partner without announcing my activity before. Today,
tomorrow,
next week and next year :-)
What do you suggest? :-)
73, Stefan/DK7FC
PS: And where is Mal? :-)
Am 11.03.2013 23:52, schrieb g3zjo:
Sucess.
Just a little more signal and this would have been a really good
QSO
over our path of 127Km conditions are not good tonight, my
antenna
current is down.
Eddie
On 11/03/2013 21:53, g3zjo wrote:
LF
Searching for a Narrow Keyboard QSO mode suitable for QRP on
630m. I
went back to a program I used several years ago.
Currently Testing GMFSK not to be confused with gMFSK which
is a Linux
program.
GMFSK is an FSK Mode using Varicode by JE3HHT Makoto Mori
included in
MMVari.not new program it is of the usual high standard
found in his
software.
GMFSK has variable width, currently I am running at 15.625Hz
wide.
474.200 Dial 1900 tone frequency.
JE3HHT provides fine documentation with his software, for
some reason
all the other modes covered by MMVari are well covered but
when he gets to GMFSK he says that it is
beyond the
scope of the instructions. I have yet to find more details
about the
mode.
This Mode should
be
better than RTTY and faster MFSK for higher power stations
too.
73 Eddie G3ZJO
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