Hi Andy Bill moved west but did appear on one of the groups a few months back I think. I seem to remember Toronto being mentioned.

 

The progress was COHERENT>> AFRICA >> AFRICAM. I think, Wolf appeared later from a different source as a sound card application. (somewhere I have a print of the original web posting for it) All Bill's software was operated via his sigma-delta ADC with RS-232 comms to the PC.......I have a nice boxed one here acquired from Dave Bowman.

 

One other system that was quite popular was Jason from Alberto, as a keyboard QSO data mode.

 

Alan

G3NYK

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Andy Talbot

To: [email protected] ; [email protected]

Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 7:59 AM

Subject: LF: Old "Coherent" mode

Back in the last millennium, on 73kHz I remember using a BPSK mode called "Coherent"  by VE1IQ.   I do remember generating raw unfiltered BPSK and casually  'ignoring' its sidebands, and also that the abrupt phase transition led to audible clicks from my antenna loading coil

Purely out of interest (and because I thought I'd include it in a talk on LF operation I'm giving in a couple of weeks) I searched for any details on t'web.   VE2IQ's page still seems to exist, but all references date back to that era - I didn't try downloading the software.

In those pre-soundcard days we had to use hardware audio digitisers on receive, and I remember doing a PIC based one to replace the board of TTL logic otherwise needed.   Still have a PCB on a shelf here labelled "VE2IQ Interface";  it's just an A/D converter and serial interface to a PC, with 8 bit sampling at 7200Hz.

Did Coherent morph into Wolf?  As  they both use the same modulation / baud rate it seems more than coincidence...

Andy  G4JNT