[Lowfer] TAG in PSKAM10 Mode

Sat, 11 Oct 2003 22:36:38 -0400

John

Didn't get a chance to take a look at TAG during the day today but will do
so tomorrow. At the moment Europe 1 on 183 kHz is pretty strong. That
combined with static is limiting PSKAM10 reception to about 50% at the
moment.

Jay

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Andrews" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] TAG in PSKAM10 Mode

> Ed,
>
> Jay and I have been playing with PSKAM10 on and off since May. It seems to
> do quite well during the daytime, but is not very resilient with static
> crashes. I'm up in Maine right now, and things are quieter today than they
> have been since May.  I'll paste some results from this afternoon at the
end
> of this message. That copy is of TAG at 140 miles.
>
> I agree that the user interface is odd at times. Also, the program can
> "wander off" and need to be restarted. But the 6 wpm throughput is
amazing,
> considering the signal strength.
>
> John Andrews, W1TAG
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> -----
> TAG
> TGEAG TAG HOLDEN, MASSACHUSETTS FN42CH
> OPERATING ON 185.800 KHZ CNDER PART 15 OF THE FCC RULES
> TESTING MULTIPSK VERSION 2.4 IN PSKAM10 MODE.
> THIS MODE HAS A BAUD RATE OF 10, THE SAME AS MS100 BPSK.
> THE EFFECTIVE THROUGHPUT IS ABOUT THE SAME AS 6 WPM CW.
> EACH CHARACTER IS REPEATED 5 POSITIONS LATER, PROVIDING ERROR CORRECTION.
> THE MULTIPSK PROGRAM WAS WRITTEN BY F6CTE. TRANSMISSION IS VIA A SOUND
CARD
> OUTPUT
> FED TO THE TAG PHASING EXCITER. POWER INPUT IS 1 WATT DC.
> QSL VIA [email protected]
> ...REPEATING...
>
> ���YHMV���TAG TAG HOLDEN, MASSACHUSETTS FN42CH
> OPERATING ON 185.800 KHZ UNDER PART 15 OF THE FCC RULES
> TESTING MULTIPSK VERSION 2.4 IN PSKAM10 MODE.
> THISZMODE HAS A BAUD RATE OF 10, THE SAME AS MS100 BPSK.
> THE EFFECTIVE THROUGHPUT IS ABOUT THE SAME AS 6 WPM CW.
> EACH CHARACTER IS REPEATED 5 POSITIONS LATER, PROVIDING ERROR CORRECTION.
> THE MULTIPSK PROGRAM WAS WRITTEN BY F6CTE. TRANSMISSI�N IJ IA A SOUND CARD
> OUTPUT?FED TO THE TAG PHAJING EXCITER. POWER INPUT �S 1 WATT DC.
> QSL VIA [email protected]
> ...REPEATING...
>
>
> TA� TG TAG TAG HOLDEN, MASSACHUSETTS FN42CH
> OPERATING ON 185.800 KHZ UNDER PART 15 OF THE FCC RULES
> TESTING MULTIPSK VERSION 2.4 IN PSKAM10 MODE.
> THIS EODE HAS A BAUD RATE OF 10, THE SAME AS MS100 BPSK.
> THE3EFFECTIVE THROUGHPUT IS ABOUT THE SAME AS 6 WPM CW.
> EACH CHARACTER IS REPEATED 5�POSITIONS LATER, PROVIDING ERROR CORRECTION.
> THE MULTIPSK PROGRAM WAS WRITTEN BY F6CTE. TRANSMISSION IS VIA A SOUND
CARD
> OUTPUT
> FED TO THE TAG PHASING EXCITER. POWER INPUT IS 1 WATT DC.
> QSL [email protected]�...REPEATING...
>
>
> TAG
> Q
> OL4
> OL4
>  ��DEN, MASSACHUSETTS FN42CH
> OPERATING ON 185.800 KHZ UNDER PART 15 OF THE FCC RULES
> TESTING MULTIPSK VERSION 2.4 IN PSKAM10 MODE.
> THIS MODE HAS A BAUD RATE OF 10, THE SAME A� MS100 BPSK.
> THE EFFECTIVE THROUGHPUT IS ABOUT THE SAME AS 6 WPM CW.
> EACH CHARACTER IS REPEATED 5 POSITIONS LATER, PROVIDING ERROR CORRECTION.
> THE MULTIPSK PROGRAM WAS WRITTEN BY F6CTE. TRANSMISSION IS VIA A SOUND
CARD
> OUTPUT
> FED TO 0HE TAG PHASING EXCITER. POWER INPUT IH 1 W:2T K.
> ?SL VIA [email protected]
>
>
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