[SMCARA] Club Station and Digital

Wed Jul 9 11:58:36 EDT 2014

Dan/Boz

The club has a PK-232MBX that is mounted in a rack panel just like the current LDG tuner for the station.  This will do Packet/RTTY/PACTOR/AMTOR/ASCII/FAX, but not the newer sound card modes such as PSK/JT/WSPR/Hell/Throb/etc. It works well for VHF packet such as the WinLink stuff or APRS. It does not use the sound card and interfaces via a serial port (not a USB, but traditional 9 pin serial) to the computer and via audio cables to the HF or VHF radio. We could set it up on VHF for WinLInk.

I think the SL-USB is the way to go for HF modes.  Much more flexibility.  I may have a SLUSB to IC-746 cable in my "junque" box. We can eventually mount a SLUSB on a rack panel for convenience.

Go for it!
Tom/OKW

-----Original Message-----
From: SMCARA [mailto:smcara-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Metcalf
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 11:34 AM
To: Richard (KG3BOZ)
Cc: smcara at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [SMCARA] Club Station and Digital

I have a Signalink USB that I can spare to be used at the club station. I have a dual core win 7 laptop that can be used during setup and during the contest. not sure what cable would be needed. I have the 6-pin mini-din connectors used on most ICOM and YAESU rigs.

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Richard (KG3BOZ) <kg3boz at md.metrocast.net>
wrote:

> The station is not currently capable of operating digital modes.
>
> It could become capable of sending and receiving digital modes with 
> the addition of:
>
> Signalink USB
> Appropriate cabling
> Software.
> A computer capable of hosting the aforementioned software.
>
> If the intent is to only use RTTY and or PARK 31then a simple software 
> program would be the right path (e.g.
> digipan )  If anything else is needed I recommend HRD (of course).
>
> I would be willing to be one of the operators at various contests.
>
>
> 73 DE KG3BOZ
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Daniel Metcalf
> Date:07/09/2014 11:11 (GMT-05:00)
> To: smcara at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [SMCARA] Club Station and Digital
>
> So it has been suggested that we as a club should hold more events 
> like Field Day where we operate as a group. I like the idea and am 
> ready to support it. The only two things that would benefit from such 
> a gathering is a contest or a special event (open to other reasons). 
> So I am curious does the club station have the ability to do RTTY? How 
> hard would it be to set it up? Might we use the setup process as a 
> demonstration as to how to get a station to do digital modes?
>
> I am the above questions because on the 19th is the North American QSO 
> Party RTTY edition.
> Details:
>
> Name: North American QSO Party RTTY
> Date: Jul 19, 1800Z - Jul 20, 0600Z
> Freq: 3.5-28
> Mode: DIGITAL
> Exchange: Name and S/P/C (State/Province/Country)
> Logs: ncjweb.com 7 days
>
> First, can we get the station to do digital in time. I have a win 7 
> laptop that is just the base install so it can be configured to do 
> whatever we need at this point.
>
> Second, Do we want to use getting the station on digital as a 
> demonstration to how to get a station up on digital?
>
> Third, Would anyone else be interested in operating multi-op for this 
> contest? I think we could use the filters and triplexer to set up 
> additional stations at the museum that day.  Of course we would have 
> to talk to the museum.
>
> This is now open for discussion.
> HAVE FUN!
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> Dan Metcalf -- KB3UUN
> c. 301 769 1111
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