[K6BW] Fw: MRP40 vs MixW

[Bill Smith]

----- Original Message -----=20
From: Bill Smith=20
To: Peter Bland=20
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: MRP40 vs MixW


Hi, Peter

I have copied this e-mail to our reflector, think others may be =
interested
also.  Hope this is ok.

I am not surprised re MixW.  MixW is a great program to "reach for" when =
you
hear a strong digital signal.  Except for MT-63, I haven't found the =
various
mode emulations in MixW all that robust for weak signals.  Perhaps you
noticed the difficulty I had during the demonstration when I attempted =
to
decode a CW signal.

I just don't know what digital activity is on the ham bands.  40 and 20
meters used to be the hot spots, and one of the small WRC bands (think =
the
10mhz frequency) is essentially restricted to CW and digital modes.

Band conditions have been very unsettled this summer.  The MARS group =
was
actively experimenting with various modes at the beginning of the year.
Amtor is still the most popular MARS digital mode even with its =
recognized
weaknesses.

Poor radio conditions, training with a new traffic-net protocol and the
experience from those experiments has reduced use of modes other than =
Amtor
and MT-63.  You might listen, though, just above 4005 KHz and just below
7350 KHz.  Several traffic nets are active, ours starts at 6:00pm local,
7-days a week.  The digital experimentation net is at 7:00pm local.   I
think you mentioned you may be at the meeting tomorrow, you could ask =
around
there.

73 de Bill, AB6MT
billsmith@ispwest.com



----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Bland
To: Bill Smith
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 11:21 PM
Subject: MRP40 vs MixW


I have run these two programs side by side on the same signal and I am
getting a much better translation from MRP40 on CW only.  MRP40 also
automatically seeks the strongest signal from the spectrum and adjusts =
to
the speed and frequency automatically.  I have yet to find any other =
digital
signals to check MixW out on.  Peter



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