[Lowfer] BPSK31

Ed Phillips [email protected]
Sun, 01 Jun 2003 09:51:11 -0700


John Andrews wrote:
> 
> Ed,
> 
> It's a slower version of PSK31. Same coding, just a lower data rate. I
> believe that Andy, G4JNT, cooked it up with some software that required the
> Motorola 56002 evaluation kit (not a sound card). It is a possible mode in
> the digital terminal section of Spectrum Lab (which DOES use a soundcard),
> but neither Dex nor I have been able to get it to decode properly. I can use
> SpecLab's terminal for PSK31, and that works OK. But with the PSK08 setting,
> I miss about half of the characters. So I guess the short story is that I
> don't know of any workable soundcard-based software for it at this point.
> 
> John A.

	Thanks; that's what I wanted to know.  I'll look up SpecLab and see
what I can find.  Guess the only current slow program which is
functional is MULTIPSK, which works fine in PSKAM10.  Similar to BPSK31
but uses different coding from varicode and seems to do a bit better
under weak signal condx.

Ed