[Lowfer] Mounting interest for OP/OPDS 137 tonight...

Douglas D. Williams kb4oer at gmail.com
Sat Jan 11 15:06:07 EST 2014


Understood, Jay. "Detect" is a good description of OPDS.

Time for me to shut up and listen.

I'll be monitoring OP32 136 kHz tonight.

D.



On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 2:50 PM, <jrusgrove at comcast.net> wrote:

> Doug
>
> Not trying to re-open a can of worms here ;~)
>
> Standard OPERA or OP does *decode* the signal without a list of
> transmitting stations. OPERA Deep Search OPDS takes this a step further and
> does *detect* a signal using a list of possible stations. We probably
> shouldn't use the word *decode* when talking about OPDS ... just so there's
> no confusion.
>
> Jay
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas D. Williams" <kb4oer at gmail.com
> >
> To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European,& UK) and MedFer bands" <
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> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 1:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Mounting interest for OP/OPDS 137 tonight...
>
>
>
>  I'll be listening.
>>
>> Regarding Opera.....I haven't had much luck so far. Been trying for a
>> transatlantic LF Opera decode many times now, but no success yet, in spite
>> of several successes with QRSS and WSPR.
>>
>> OPDS, to me, has the stigma of the receiving station must have the
>> callsign
>> of the transmitting station in the database for any chance of success. I
>> believe this has been discussed on this reflector before. Not trying to
>> take away any glory from OPDS decodes. They are what they are. These are
>> murky waters, IMO.
>>
>> -Doug
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>> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Bob Raide <rjraide at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  WE2XEB  NY  will be on 2300 start for the night OP/OPDS 32-136 dial
>>> freq-all reports appreciated-Bob
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