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UI-View
Support
There is a
mailing list on Yahoo!Groups for UI-View support. Click the logo  for information on how to join it. Or
you can join by sending an email to ui-view-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.It doesn't matter what you put for the title
and message content.
If you want to read some comments
about how I test programs, what PC hardware I use, etc, have a look at G4IDE's PC Page.
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Rig
control
When DX cluster spots are received in "DX
Cluster Spy" mode, information about them is made available to client
programs via a DDE interface from both UI-View and UI-View32. UI-View32
also makes the information available to programs that use it as an ActiveX
component. UIV32-HF150.ZIP contains the VB5 source code of a simple rig control add-on.
It works with the Lowe HF-150, but it should be very easy for anyone with
some knowledge of VB5 to change it to control other rigs.
Rotator
Control
UI-RCI provides a link between
UI-View and EA4TX's Rotator Control Interface. DX spots from the DX
cluster appear in a list window in UI-RCI, and the antenna can be rotated
simply by clicking a station in the list. Download uirci100.zip and
read the text file in the zip for information on how to use
UI-RCI.
Maps
Coloured relief maps of the USA
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MixW: Another  Gottahavit Soundcard Software!
This new program is called
MixW version
2. MixW is written by Nick Fedoseev, UT2UZ and
Dennis
Nechitailov UU9JDR. from Kiev, Ukraine. (used by most MARS members)
MixW is a magnificent all-in-one ham radio station program that
combines:
- Normal and Contest Logging -- with several statistics
displays, powerful enough to be your main/only station log
- Exports ADIF, Cabrillo, and all the popular log formats
- CD-ROM callbook lookup, also internet call lookup (if connected)
- Azmuthal World Map -- shows heading and distance to DX
station, determined by callsign
- DDE interface to magnificent DX Atlas software http://www.dxatlas.com/
- Multifunction Tuning Indicator -- Phase Scope, RST, Copy, S/N, IMD
indicators
- Waterfall and Spectrum Analyzer -- zoom and colors customizable
- CAT Radio Control -- for many brands and models -- has
scan, memories, etc.
- Actual RF frequency can be displayed along waterfall and
Spectrum Analyzer, via CAT
- DX Cluster Window -- click the "spot" to jump the radio
directly to his frequency (via CAT)
- Keys PTT and CW KEY via CAT; or RTS and DTR pins; can also MCW via
soundcard.
- Uses PC-soundcard and/or outboard serial TNCs
- Antenna Control -- for most computer-controllable antenna
rotators and remote switches
- Open unlimited simultaneous receive windows -- monitor
several signals at once
- Generate QSL CARDS from log data via DDE to WinWord or
StarOffice, includes templates
- Almost everything is a toolbar that can be docked anywhere or floated --
design your own screen layout
- All screen colors and fonts are fully customizable
- Can print your callsign in everyone's waterfall in some modes (called
"Video ID")
- Contest Voice Keyer -- multimode; uses your WAV files
- CW -- send and receive, works great -- use keyboard; or
straight key or iambic paddle on JSTK or PRN port!
- BPSK-31 and QPSK-31 and even
FSK-31, a new mode that works even better
- RTTY -- set any shift and any baud rate and use 5, 7,
8-bit character sets -- try new experimental modes
- Packet -- HF, VHF, UHF, Sat., 300 - 19200 baud, simple to
configure and use, does not use clumsy external engine, can also digipeat,
beacon, ICP/IP (internet) over packet, KISS emulation, all with new internal
code. Uses configuration dialog, not clumsy old TNC command line.
- Amtor -- (Mode B (FEC) only) set any shift
- Pactor -- receive only -- G-Tor is in the works
- MFSK-16 -- can send text, files, and even color
pictures in a narrowband sstv-like mode
- Throb -- in 1, 2, and 4 throbs/sec
- Hellschreiber -- in three flavors
- FAX -- receive only, any kind, can set any LPM rate, AM
or FM demodulation
- SSTV -- in several popular flavors
...all this and more in one integrated interface! The program is very stable
-- I have not been able to crash it. Also, it will run on modest computers. I
run it with no trouble on a P-133 laptop with only 24 megs of RAM. However, the
processor can be overloaded by setting the waterfall too fast, and/or turning on
too many digital filters. With a 500-MHz machine and more RAM, you should be
able to turn on everything at once and still demodulate while moving the mouse
around.
This program definitely isn't flaky-ware. It looks,
configures, and performs like high-end commercial software. But the best thing
about MixW is its authors, Nick Fedoseev UT2UZ and Dennis Nechitailov UU9JDR.
They want feedback and will interact with users' questions and suggestions.
Very nice fellows!
Mixw v.3 is in the works.
MixW v.2 is available for free evaluation download. Fully functional
shareware, dies after 15 days.
The registration cost is $50 -- VERY
reasonable, considering all that it does!
U.S. payments go to Jim Jaffe,
WA2VOS, in New York, and he forwards to Nick in Kiev.
Info, see http://mixw.net/
Downloads and
registration instructions and payment, http://www.nvbb.net/~jaffejim/downloads.htm
GO HERE FIRST.
The help file is a work-in-progress: get latest
English help file at http://radioministries.org/k4set/MixW2_help.html
Nick's site from Kiev http://tav.kiev.ua/~nick/mixw/mixw.htm
There are other sites in other countries and languages. Google search
mixw.
Update Highlights
Packet radio using the computer soundcard: see http://www.qsl.net/soundcardpacket/
for an overwiew and a great site to start with.
Great new FREEware (makes many other programs
obsolete/redundant):
MMSSTV, MMANA (antenna analyzer), MMTTY
(rtty engine used in HamScope, et. al.), DSP Filter (a cool
PC-based DSP audio filter). http://www.qsl.net/mmhamsoft/ .
Drawbacks: MMSSTV None. I have heard users on 14.230 say they like MMSSTV
better than the $120 ChromaPix.
MMANA: Nice antenna design program -- except
is all metric. These MM's are from Japan.
DSPFilter: Fun toy, not real useful
to me. Output runs a little too far behind input on my 500MHz PC.
HamScope -- no, not an oscilloscope -- a most-in-one
HF-Digital-Soundcard program: http://www.qsl.net/hamscope/
- PSK31 (BPSK and QPSK, see PSK31 Home Page )
- RTTY (HamScope uses Makoto Mori's MMTTY Engine)
- ASCII (both 7 bit and 8 bit protocols using MMTTY)
- MFSK16 (see MFSK16 Home Page )
- PACKET (HamScope uses George Rossopoulos' AGWPE Engine)
- Sends CW and receives CW -- and does a pretty darn good
job
- Copies two signals (in the audio passband)
simultaneously!
- Has multiple spectral displays -- not just waterfall!
Drawbacks: HamScope still doesn't support logging to Logger
like all Nino's programs do. Doesn't do Hellschreiber.
CW paddles not
supported as in CWType.
Getting Started
Basic info, how-to, and where-to, is on http://www.qsl.net/wm2u. The WM2U
website is the starting place for learning about all the new HF-PC Soundcard
modes. In addition, http://www.packetradio.com/ has tons of
practical info about the new modes, particularly PSK31.
There are many great hamsites with excellent articles and
tutorials. Google it by mode name to read the gurus.
2003: I just re-brewed my interface, removing the isolation
transformers. They were talking through magnetic fields and causing feedback. If
you use isolation transformers, place a steel shield between them. I now use an
old Dell P-133 notebook for all radio-computer uses -- it generates no ground
loops and very little RF spurs. If you're getting lots of hash, try killing your
big CRT monitor. If that's the problem, buy a notebook of a flat-panel
display.
Interfaces, 2003 Update
Interface Building
NOTE: See my NEW interfaces on my Icom 706MkIIG
Page.
I started with an isloated interface but the transformers talked to each
other so now I use a plain interface with two 50k pots in the audio lines, and
two simple transistor switches for PTT and KEY. Was also using mic jack but now
connected to back of radio, leaving mic plugged in -- added on-off switch to
mic.
If your mic is the "always hot" type, put a tiny switch in
it.
Switch the output, not the element.
Author's tiny interface. 2 pots set audio levels.
PTT and
KEY use 2 transistors, 4 diodes, 4 resistors.
My current interface schematic. Works fine.
Interface Notes:
- Everything at Radio Shack except maybe your radio aux plug.
- "Rx" in the transmit line only needed if you need to load down the mic
input some to kill hum. It should be 1 - 5 k or so.
- All goes on breadboard in 3x2x1 plastic box.
- If you want isolated, add 8:600 ohm transformers on the 8-ohm side
upstream of the pots -- i.e., the computer output and radio output will see
the transformer first; the pots are then in 600 ohm outputs of transformers.
Transformers must be magnetically shielded from each other to prevent
crosstalk/feedback.
- If you want to use isolated PTT and KEY switching, use opto-coupler IC:
- Use a splice or Y-connector at computer output if also running external
speakers. Same for radio, if needed.
- Connect to radio accessory jack if possible, using constant-level line-out
and line-in, if available.
- Put a simple on-off switch in the mic and you'll eliminate the need for
all that external wiring and mic switching.
- If you're keying a tube-and-relay radio, you'll need higher-voltage
devices, like small relays with arc-supression diodes, after the transistors,
as well as power supply to transistor switches.
- If using a little plastic box like I did, make slots in edge, not holes,
for wires, because, as you can see above, no matter how careful you are, wires
will be twisted before you're done.
- Always use stereo mini-jacks for soundcard or you'll short out one channel
with a mono jack.
- Buy a Radio Shack 42-2387 6-ft Audio cable with stereo 1/8th-inch jack
each end, cut it in half, to run from interface to computer. It costs $3 which
is half as much as two good jacks and eliminates the need to solder jacks. The
red wire is tip, the black wire is ring.
- Attach the pots so the resistor is across the high-level side and the
wiper swings across the low-level output.
- If you get hum on transmit, try shunting the radio mic input side with a
1k resistor. See Rx in my schematic.
- Watch out for sucking your radio mic phantom power down or the preamp in
your desk mic won't work. This is usually about 8 volts, with a
current-limiting resistor, on the radio mic imput. If you can keep the shunt
resistance of the interface quite high without any hum or RF problems, that's
better. Switching the mic on will cause it to take priority from the interface
because of it's much lower resistance (usually 600 ohms for modern radios).
- If you must use the computer mic-in instead of line-in, use a stereo jack
and leave the ring disconnected. This is the computer mic jack phantom power,
which normally runs a small electret computer mic.
- Some hums are caused by groundloops. Try lifting the ground wire in the
RS-232 jack. Try using an ungrounded laptop computer. If all else fails,
install 8:600 ratio isolation transformers in the audio lines. Shield them
with steel from each other or they might get a magnetic feedback/crosstalk.
- Most RF problems go away by wrapping the the interface cables through a
pair of those square split-toroid chokes. Don't wrap both lines in the same
choke or you'll get magnetic feedback through the choke! Put transmit line
choke as close as possible to radio. The better solution is to reduce the RF
in your shack.
- Check your radio’s manual to see if AF input and output are available on
the AUX connector on the rear panel. This is cleaner and more convenient than
using mic and external speaker plugs.
- RG-174 teflon makes great shielded audio hookup cable and is sturdier than
typical stereo hookup cables.
- Full-function interfaces are available in kit-form for $27.50 or wired for
$47.50. Includes opto-isolated PTT, case, cables, all connectors, schematics,
and software CD. Order by radio model from http://www.packetradio.com/psk31.htm.
This isn't one of the RIP-OFF guys. This is good stuff and the prices are
reasonable.
General Operating Notes
- Your soundcard clock may be sloppy. All modes will work better if you
calibrate it. Use SSTV or FAX software, tuned in to WWV. Set software to a
mode with a scan rate (LPM) that is 60 or some harmonic of 60. Adjust radio so
WWV tick paints clearly in software program. Adjust soundcard sample rate so
tick line is perfectly vertical. You can get within 1 part per million
accuracy if you are patient. Record the new settings and error rate. Apply
exact sample rate or error correction PPM to all your soundcard programs that
will allow it. MMSSTV has the best soundcard calibration utility I've ever
seen.
- Don't use VOX, else you end up with Windows noises illegally on the air
(and it irritates the crap out of others). Furthermore, if you use the aux
mic input on the radio, and you happen to have the radio keyed (talking),
any sound the computer makes will also be transmitted. This may be handy for
voice contesting, but otherwise will be playing "music" over ham radio. Any
time the computer output is connected to transceiver, you should tuen off all
computer sounds. Go to Control Panel, Sounds, and set Scheme to "No
Sounds."
- Digital modes that use audio modulation must be completely clean.
Do not overdrive! If you see ANY ALC, that’s too much! Dummy-load your
signal and listen to it with another receiver. Make sure it's 100% clean.
You’ll see dirty, splattering signals on the air, right on waterfall display:
A splattering PSK31 signal can interfere with 10 QSOs! Avoid QRO operation.
Use modest power that is 100% clean. There must be no clipping or ALC anywhere
in the audio chain. Avoid reactance devices that might reshape the waveforms.
Never use speech processor or compression.
- Adjust computer mixer volumes to mid-points, then adjust radio mic gain to
normal, then AF gain to normal listening level, then adjust interface pots. Do
not expect good signals either way if you have pinched the computer mixer way
down. The mixer needs to be fairly open so the software can see a large range
of binary numbers coming from the soundcard. Don't overdrive the soundcard
hardware and expect a software mixer to fix it. Likewise, set the computer
audio output at a modest level so the output transistors are always on but
well below clipping. Most soundcard software drive the soundcard very hard by
sending it the full 16-bit range of numbers. Some allow you to adjust the
digital ouput going to the soundcard.
- PC Mixer mixups: Most have two modes: Record and Playback. For INPUTS (mic
and line and sometimes aux), the RECORD LINE IN will set the level going
into the software. The PLAYBACK LINE IN will set the monitor
level. Monitor must be muted if you use VOX, or received
audio will loop through the computer and key the radio! (Yes, in spite of
antivox). That’s the best reason to build a comm port keying
interface, monitor the radio through the radio speaker, and the PC
through the PC speakers. PLAYBACK LINE OUT or WAVE sets the output level.
Logging
I do not have much experience with logging software, but if I ever start
contesting, I'll just use MixW.
Software: 2003: MixW does it all. Full-featured logger with
normal and contest modes, several statistics screens, uses standard ADIF files.
MixW can be your main and only logger. Takes input manually and from CAT (radio
control connection).
2002 Update: Logger is still the best free logger (IMHO).
Unfortumately, HamScope still doesn't write to it directly -- but HamScope does
write ADIF files which can be imported into Logger.
Software: WriteLog $75. http://www.writelog.com/.. CW keyer, RTTY,
and PSK31 are built-in. Can be networked for multi-op contests. This is called
"the ultimate contest logger for Windows." Even has crossed-bananas and
auto-tune. I have not tried it.
Contest Voice Keyer
Since the computer is already connected to the radio, automating repetitive
voice messages (like "CQ Contest!") is simply a matter of recording wave files
and setting some buttons and repeat interval options to play them.
MixW, and several loggers, provide this capability.
The Modes:
CW
Several programs will send CW from the keyboard; two will also accept an
iambic paddle connected to the joystick's "fire" buttons (very
easy to do). Two ways to key the radio: You can use your interface RTS>PTT
circuit to key the radio, with PTT handled by VOX (break-in operation), or you
can build two keying circuits, one RTS>PTT and the other, DTR>KEY. The
first allows full-break-in (if your radio supports it); the latter is more
"elegant." In addition, some programs will also decode CW --
but in practice, the signal has to be strong or at lest, steady (fading will
cause it to miss characters that you can still hear by ear). Most CW decoders
are easily fooled by static and poor fist. They will never completely replace
the trained ear.
2003: MixW does it all. Send/receive CW keyboard, memory
keyer, straight and iambic.
CWType, (free) sends code from the keyboard and an iambic
paddle (if connected). Has a nice built-in memory keyer, which supports variable
character spacing (Farnsworth), and weighting. Is used alone or with companion
program CWGet, the decoder, which comes in a free trial version (fully
functional but can't save settings), and a registered version ($30).
HamScope: CW send and receive. Doesn't support paddle or key input --
keyboard only.
Can't afford high price of paddles?
An unusual design I have not yet tried is the "touch-paddle."
This uses a strip of double-sided unetched PC poard set on edge. Each side is
connected to gate a JFET. The JFETS key the keyer when you touch the paddle.
Nothing moves at all except thumb and finger. That's what you call, "lightest
possible touch, with no feel."
PSK31 (Phase-shift keying, 31 baud)
There are several flavors of PSK:
- BPSK (the one normally used)
- QPSK (Quadrature phase shift, slower, more accurate)
- FSK (aka 90/270-degree PSK, a new variant by Nick Fedoseev (MixW) greatly
reduces overdrive splatter
- Speeds 31, 63, and 125 (63 and 125 experimental in IZ8BLY Stream)
PSK31 is the most popular digitial mode since RTTY. Much has been written
about it. It's relatively cheap and easy to set up and use, and is much more
robust than Baudot and other non-ARQ modes. With a bandwidth of 31.25 Hz,
it's easy to get 10 QSO's between 14070 and 14071. PSK31 will copy right down in
the noise floor -- but any strong signals in the receiver's passband will wipe
out weak signals. Mechanical CW filter in the SSB filter slot is very helpful.
Use IF shift and notch filter, too.
Some people like to build warblers. That's fine if you just want to build
something. Otherwise, use a computer and one of many good soundcard
programs.
Set your sound card sampling rate to 11025Hz. Use a 16-bit sound card. Set Rx
and Tx frequencies to 1000Hz. NOTE: This value will get you up and running
but if you plan on using a narrow IF filter change it to the center
frequency. Try using a narrow filter, or crank the IF shift (PBT) all
the way down and use 500 or less Hz rx/tx. Strong signals nearby will desense
your AGC. Use your notch filter.
Your sound card output must NOT overdrive your Mic Input. Do not overdrive
the sound card input from the Radio. Get used to the Waterfall/Phase indicators
for tuning. Don’t use Speech Processor or Compression. Keep the drive level
below any ALC indication. Don’t use your linear! 50 watts is plenty –
this is a 31 Hz bandwidth! The key to perfect PSK is a pristine signal --
not power!.
Software: The original software for soundcard, by the PSK31 inventor is:
PSK31SBW http://www.qsl.net/wm2u/psk31.html.
This software works fine but is low on features, so someone made a “front-end”
add-on for it called PSKGNR. STREAM (in the PSK31 mode) works so much
better! Moreover, STREAM has a giant waterfall FFT tuning display.http://iz8bly.sysonline.it/. Logs to
Logger if Logger running. Also has two experimental modes of 64 and 128 PSK.
2003: MixW does three flavors of PSK-31. Can copy 10 QSOs at
once.
2002 Update: HamScope does two flavors of PSK. Copy two
signals at once (search for next qso while winding up the current one, etc).
Lots of people like Digipan -- I have not tried it but I’m
sure it’s fine. It has more automation features than Stream.
Frequencies: 14070 to -071 is very busy; the usual modulation is 1000
Hz, USB. If 14070 drops out, a few people will QSY to 7070. There is a good bit
of European DX in the mornings on 28120.
RTTY (Radio TeleTYpe)
Software: 2003: MixW does it all. Set any shift and any
baud. Try out experimental rtty modes, make your own.
2002 Update: HamScope does RTTY and ASCII and is free.
I paid the $35 for TrueTTY (from Russia) a couple years ago
and it's been worth it.
Notes: Always use Lower Sideband otherwise your signal will be 'inverted'
Select ‘reverse’ in TrueTTY because they do it backwards in Russia (where it
comes from). Standard 'Mark' is 2125Hz and 'Space' to 2295Hz; shift is 170;
speed 45 baud. Remember TrueTTY = LSB Reverse 45 170. Yep, it really works
well.
Software: TrueTTY by Sergei Podstrigailo, UA9OSV (has Baudot &
ASCII RTTY, Amtor-FEC, and PSK31). Requires $35 registration but well worth it
if you like RTTY. The author emailed my key (from Russia) within a couple hours
of online payment! http://www.dxsoft.com/
Shareware $35. Fully functional except won’t save configs till registered. This
is a very nice, well-featured program. He also has nice Morse decoder
& keyer programs, with heavy discount when you buy TrueTTY.
Packet (yes, with a soundcard)
2003 Update: MixW does all flavors of packet, with all-new
internal coding. Pretty much obsoletes all other packet systems, except I don't
know if it will DDE with WinAPRS (I am asking Nick right now...)
2002 Update: It is now possible to run VHF packet radio, 1200 baud, including
APRS, and 300 baud HF packet, using only the soundcard (and, of course, a good
isolated interface and a transistor (or optoisolator) PTT switch controlled by
the COM port.
Freeware solution: Install latest HamScope. Download AGWPE zip file and unzip
it into the same folder as HamScope. Start HamScope and select the Packet mode.
It runs the AGWPE packet engine and Voltiare! you're
at the Cmd: prompt. Connect the other end of your soundcard interface to your
VHF-FM and start looking for packet. The AGWPE engine can be configured to do
300 baud HF packet, also.
The secret is in the software, just like with all the other modes herein. The
place to learn all about it is http://www.qsl.net/soundcardpacket/
- a magnificent site!. The software is called AGWPE, which is a
software client (or interface layer) which interfaces the soundcard to
applications which usually require a TNC. AGWPE will run WinAPRS and several
other packet software programs.
Amtor
MixW will do amtor mode-B (FEC) send and receive with a
soundcard. I can't figure out why anyone would use Amtor mode B
when so many other modes with FEC, like MFSK and MT-63, work so
much better...
Pactor, G-Tor
MixW receives Pactor; (G-Tor receive is in the works for
version 3). These cannot be transmitted by any soundcard software because they
are patented, proprietary modes.
MFSK (Multi-Frequency Shift Keying):
2003 Update: MixW has the usual MFSK-16 mode but you can
send B/W and color PICTURES with it, too!
2002 Update: HamScope does MFSK, et. al.
Stream is Nino's (IZ8BLY) MFSK/PSK software. It has MFSK and PSK,
several modes each, including experimental modes you can't get anywhere else. It
works and looks like all of Nino's fine software.
Common mode is MFSK-16 (multi-frequency shift keying), 1000 Sidetone,USB, on
14.080. Sounds like a kid playing a flutophone.
Stream also runs PSK31, 63, and 125.
Software: http://iz8bly.sysonline.it/ Free.
Excellent. Get it. Logs to Logger if Logger running.
Throb
2003: Throb is a strange and little-used digital mode, that I can't currently
describe accurately, but several programs do it, including
MixW.
MT63
2003 Update: You guessed it: MixW does that, too.
Said to be the most “robust” HF digital mode ever made. 14.347. USB
above 9HMz, LSB below. Early morning European activity on
28.130. This is a somewhat broadband mode and is used in the
voice allocations.
Software: http://iz8bly.sysonline.it/ Free.
Excellent. Get it. Logs to Logger if Logger running.
Read all about MT63 at http://www.qsl.net/zl1bpu/MT63/MT63.html
.
Hellschreiber
Hellschreiber is loads of fun! This is a revival of a very old 1930’s mode
which works soft of like FAX. The characters are not decoded by the computer.
They are simply painted on the screen on a moving “paper tape” and decoded by
the eye and brain. Signals way in the mud can still be read. Lots of fonts to
choose from. I have found that Hellschreiber transmissions are hard to locate,
but if you just get on 14063 and start sending CQ's pretty soon you'll have a
QSO, then another, then a whole party! European Hell is 28110 or 120 in the
mornings.
2003 Update: MixW does it all -- well, doesn't have as many
modes as IZ8BLY hell.
2002 Update: IZ8BLY Hellschreiber: http://iz8bly.sysonline.it/ Free.
Excellent. Get it. Still the best. Logs to Logger if Logger running.
Feld Hell is the usual mode. C/MT Hell will actually paint readable text on
everyone’s waterfall display!
http://www.qsl.net/wm2u/hell.html
info.
SSTV
Notes: Most xmsns are Scottie-1, a few are Martin-1. Voice (ssb) is used with
SSTV to make contact and announce the sending mode, etc. A mic switch is
essential. MFJ has one; also their interface has mic switching. SSTVers don't
just send blind CQ pictures -- they talk into the group first.
2003 Update: I've tried them all and MMSSTV is my main SSTV
program.
MixW does SSTV fine but I prefer the handy features in MMSSTV.
2002 Update: A great FREE program is now available for SSTV/FAX all modes:
MMSSTV.
2002 Update: The one and only really great, and FREE!, SSTV
software is MMSSTV -- get it at http://www.qsl.net/mmhamsoft/mmsstv/
and while you're there, get his other great free programs -- MMANA, DSPFilter,
etc http://www.qsl.net/mmhamsoft/
.
General info: http://www.qsl.net/wm2u/sstv.html
Others are available cheap or free but they tend to use a “Hamcom” type
interface, not a soundcard. Yuck.
FAX
2003: Most sstv programs will NOT do HF FAX or WEFAX. JVComm32 is one that
does it well, with nice features. Cost money.
MixW has a basic FAX receiver
only, no save, no autostart-stop, no scrollback. But you CAN set ANY number
LPM.
NOTE: Use FAX mode at 60 LPM to calibrate your soundcard clock to
WWV. You can also use SSTV programs that have some mode like WWV calibration,
AVT-90 or some other sstv mode with a scan rate that is harmonic of
60.
Bandplan
There is little consensus right now on which modes are acceptable in certain
portions of the digital mode sub-bands. The influx of new digital modes and
operators is not welcome by some. Please make every effort to avoid interference
with other modes.
Bandplan: Practical Information de AD4JE dated Jan 22, 2002
| Band |
RTTY Pactor |
PSK31 |
MFSK
Throb |
MT63 |
Hell |
SSTV |
Fax |
Packet |
| 160 |
1800 - 1840 |
1838 |
1838 |
1822, 1838.15 |
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|
| 80 |
3580 - 3620 |
3580 |
3580 |
3580.15, 3590, 3635 |
3575, 3580, 3559 |
3730, 3845 |
3730 |
3620, 3620.9, 3623.9, 3627.9, 3635, 3638.9 |
| 40 |
7040 - 7100 |
7070, 7035 |
7037 |
7035.15, 7037 |
7030, 7035, 7037, 7040 |
7171 |
|
7068.9, 7070.9, 7071.9, 7072.9, 7073.9, 7076.9 |
| 30 |
10130 - 10140 |
10140 |
10147 |
10140.15, 10145 |
10135, 10137, 10145 |
|
|
10124.9, 10125.9, 10126.9, 10133.9, 10136.9, 10140, 10150 |
| 20 |
14070 - 14100 |
14070 |
14080 |
14106.3, 14109.3, 14114 |
14063, 14064, 14070 |
14227, 14230, 14233 |
14227 |
14062.9, 14072.9, 14073.9, 14074.9, 14075.9, 14076.9, 14095,
14099.5 |
| 17 |
18100 - 18105 |
18100 |
18105 |
18105, 18100.15 |
18100, 18105 |
|
|
18101.9, 18105, 18107.9, 18110 |
| 15 |
21070 - 21100 |
21080 |
21080 |
21130 |
21070 |
21340, 21335 |
21335 |
21072.9, 21100, 21110 |
| 12 |
24920 - 24925 |
24920 |
24929 |
24925 |
|
|
|
24925, 24930 |
| 10 |
28070 - 28150 |
28070, 28120 |
28080 |
28130 |
28063, 28070, 28100, 28110, 28120 |
28675, 28680 |
28675 |
|
Standard Recommended HF Digital Operating Frequencies
(MHz)
North and South America Europe/Africa
3.590 RTTY DX 3.580-3.620
3.605-3.645
7.040 RTTY DX 7.035-7.045
7.080-7.100*
14.070-14.099.5 14.080-14.099.5
21.070-21.100
21.080-21.120
28.050-28.150
* Digital operators should avoid interfering with hams
outside the continental US who have phone privileges in this portion of 40
meters.
Recommended Novice/Technician Plus Digital Operating Frequencies (MHz)
28.100-28.150*
Suggested simplex packet-radio frequencies:
28.102.3
28.104.3
* Authorized power output 200-watts maximum for
Novices/Technician Plus Licensees in the 10-meter Novice sub-band.
Some of this info is a couple years old - please notify of broken
links and inaccuracies.
Partial Rev. May 26, 05
Copyright © 2002 by Harold Melton, KV5R. All
Rights Reserved. |
