Anyone Play With Other Modes...

[W1RKW]

Anyone play with other modes besides AM and slopbucket?  I started horsing around with RTTY recently.  Since we seem to play wiith text modes, chat, etc. here on the I'net why not take it to the air.  I've been having fun with RTTY on 20 the last few days.  I've been using the MMTTY RTTY software created by JE3HHT, Makoto (Mako) Mori.  It's a pretty neat piece of software. I really like watching the waterfall display and XY scope while sending and receiving. Love the RTTY DX too.

[Glenn NY4NC]

Bob.........do I dare say CW?.... QRP?

Always wanted to try PACTOR

[Pete, WA2CWA]

Been playing with PSK31 on 6 meters. Several other weak signal modes have also caught my interest.

I heard Winlink 2000 is great.

[Ed W1XAW]

CW QRO and QRP, rtty, although I only end up monkeying with rtty every couple years.  Ed

[Bacon, WA3WDR]

CW, but that was years ago.  PSK31, back when you needed a DSP evaluation board.  I pushed it to about 94.5 BPS if I remember, and it was pretty cool.  GMSK 2400 to 9600 BPS, one experiment at 56 KBPS.

[KB2WIG]

You had to ask ... so....   2m CB, silly slide band, RTTV , PSK31, very little CW (cant find my key) and even.... EchoLink...

A few years ago, I operated portable  PSK with an ICOM 706MK2. I didn't mind cause there was no way anyone could ID me using the mode and my stealthy set up( and low power). One day the landlady came nocking and wanted to know if I was the TVI guy. I was operating at the time. I said no, and she said something like "the noise didnt sound anything like the Teletype when I worked Air Farce comms in Turkey"...   Ya never know, does one ........  klc

[K1MVP]

I go in "spells",--after AM,--I may get the urge to go back to do qrp cw, either
solid state or tube rigs but usually always homebrew stuff.
Dont care much for commercial rigs for cw.
Also did RTTY and computer cw, but that was "short lived", as I found it
no challenge.
Do a little slopbucket, but mostly AM now with homebrew, and vintage
stuff.
When I get sick of "airtime", its always back to the bench for homebrewing.

                                           73, K1MVP                               

     

[Paul, K2ORC]

I heard Winlink 2000 is great.

Troublemaker.   

[W2PFY]

I would like to try PSK 31 or RTTY. I went out and purchased an MFJ thingey and never hooked it up.I lost the cables. software and manual. I could run 1500 watts 7/24 on rtty but I don't know if I have that much to say.

[Gary - WA4IAM]

I've enjoyed getting on PSK 31 occasionally. I've even dared to operate the mode at the bottom of 160 meters, where I managed to work the Voice Of America club station K3VOA. That was fun!

[wa2zdy]

Yes I know, why am I even here on thi AM site?  I operate almost exclusively CW on HF.  Of course I chat on the local 2m and 440 repeaters sometimes too, but for HF, the mic is somewhere in a box and I may never find it.

[WD8BIL]

I've done quite a bit of satallite work. Mostly LEO stuff. Have confirmed contacts from Oscar 7,8, RS12/13, RS15 and AO10.

RS12/13 was a great field day bird always good for the 100pt bonus with just crossed 10/15 meter dipoles at 10 ft and a barefoot TS430 !!!
Oscar 7 has been heard on CW when its in sunlight. Not bad for a 30 year old bird !!!

[Pete, WA2CWA]

It's great to see, as Tom, 1JJ says, that we're diversified. There's even a few AM'ers who run ATV.

Now we need some our techies to develop a simple encoder box for the boat anchor transmitters and an equally simple decoder for our boat anchor receivers so that we can get into "digital AM". Something similar to the AOR box. Great audio on the transmitter side gets sampled, compressed, and digitized; sent along the carrier; receiver detects, undigitizes, uncompresses the audio and sends it into the audio chain. Done correctly, we could probably achieve bandwidths less than 6KHz and still have great audio at the receiver end. How's that for putting AM into the mainstream activities.

[ve6pg]

...RTTY...SOMETHING MAGIC ABOUT WATCHING THE SCOPE,AND LISTENING TO THOSE WONDERFUL TONES....AND CW OF COURSE....SK..

[W2PFY]

 

Great audio on the transmitter side gets sampled, compressed, and digitized; sent along the carrier; receiver detects, undigitizes, uncompresses the audio and sends it into the audio chain.

Would I be able to beam myself up

[Pete, WA2CWA]

 

Great audio on the transmitter side gets sampled, compressed, and digitized; sent along the carrier; receiver detects, undigitizes, uncompresses the audio and sends it into the audio chain.

Would I be able to beam myself up

Only if you drank lots of beer and smoked several Parodi cigars and then you can beam yourself to almost anywhere.

[w1guh]

Played with teletype during college.  And lately i've been thinkin of Jingle Bells.

Do RTTY guys these days with the old Model 19 (I think...with the numbers/letters key) do the "Jingle Bells" thing with the bell.  I got that once about 1967-8.

Also the pix.  Got a Kennedy and Lincoln.

Also "earned" a notice for the club from the FCC that I didn't send the other guy's call when I did the CW ID.

Did Mode A Satellite in '80.

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

There's Jingle Bells and other Christmas songs....


"Fries are done"

Dah dah di dah - dah dah di dah  - dah dah di dah - dah dah di dah

Dah dah di dah - dah dah di dah  - dah dah di dah - dah dah di dah

I work at Burger King making  flame broiled   whoppers  -  I'm a  paper-head

Would you like an apple pie with that ?     Would you like an apple pie with
that?

Ding fries are done - Ding fries are done - Ding fries are done  - Ding
fries are done

I gotta run - I gotta run - I gotta run - I gotta run

Don't fuck with fries in hot vat  - really hurts bad -    so do  skin grafts

Would you like an apple pie with that ?  Would you like an apple pie with
that?

[softly]  Where is the bell  -  where was the bell - can't hear the bell  -
where is  the bell

[loudly]  Ding!  Fries are done  -   Ding! Fries are done  - Ding! Fries are
done -  Ding! Fries are done -

I work at Burger King making flame broiled  whoppers -  I'm a  paper-head

Would you like an apple pie with that -  would you like a  knuckle[ha]  pie
with that?

Ding fries are done  - Ding fries are done - Ding fries are done  -
DIIIIIINNNG  FRIES ARE DOOOOOONE!

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Now:

Tom Vu Version:

Dah dah di dah - dah dah di dah  - dah dah di dah - dah dah di dah

Dah dah di dah - dah dah di dah  - dah dah di dah - dah dah di dah

I work at China King making Flied Lice  -  I'm  Tom Vu

Would you rike Chow Mein  with that ? Would you rike Chow Mein with that?

Ding! Lice all done - Ding!  Lice all done - Ding! Lice all done  - Ding!
Lice are done

I gotta lun - I gotta lun - I gotta lun - I gotta lun

I  wolk at China King - no more pletty girls - no more yacht

Would you rike Chow Mein with that ?  Would you rike Chow Mein with that?

[softly]  Where is the bell  -  where was the bell - can't hear the bell  -
where is  the bell

[loudly]  Ding!  Lice all done  -   Ding! Lice all done  - Ding! Lice all
done -  Ding! Lice all done -

I work at China King making Flied Lice -  I'm  Tom Vu

Would you rike Chow Mein with that -  would you rike Chow Mein with that?

Ding Lice all done  - Ding Lice all done - Ding Lice all done  -
DIIIIIINNNG  Lice ARE DOOOOOONE!

[N3WWL]

I think someone still has the Tom Vu Christmas song lurking about.  Destined to be a true classic.  In my opinion, it already is .  If someone has a copy, please post it hear for all to enjoy.

[Vortex Joe - N3IBX]

I just (finally) hooked up my spare computer in the basement shack and would like to try PSK31,RTTY,SSTV and some of the other digital modes.
Joe Cro N3IBX

[K1JJ]

Here's James Brown on Field Day belting out, "Ding! Lice All Done"... with

Buckwheat calmly listening on the other end.

[w1guh]

 


Where's the afro?

[AJ1G]

Mobile ops from my Volvo XC70 Cross Country on HF and VHF with my Yaesu FT-100D, mostly 40 CW.  Work all over the world on there!  Also do casual VHF contest  rover style ops with an 11 element 2 meter yagi and a 2 element 6 meter yagi set up next to the car on a 10 foot mast.  Work 2 meter auroral scatter with the same setup. Occassionally use SSB on HF mobile, mainly to keep skeds with other AMers while on the road.   40 CW mobile while driving to/from work and on weekends is probably 80 percent of my on air time of late.

Try to check into the local weekly ARES net from the mobile. Did the ARRL Level 1 EMCOMM certification a few years back  Have put together a rapid deployment field HF NVIS antenna kit to use with the mobile in emergencies. 

Play with my BA military and vintage hame gear on whatever modes they run on - CW and AM of course. 

Trying to get a 211 Hartley transmitter working for use in the AWA OT and 29 contests.  Didnn't have time to get it on for last two weekend's 1929 contest.

Ran quite a bit of RTTY and AMTOR with the original PK232 and my first computer, an IBM PC-XT Portable back in the late 80s with my Heath SB line.  Have a West Mountain NOMIC interface and software to do modern digital modes with te FT100D, but thats still on the to-do list.  Ideally, want to set up the digital comms on a laptop to add to the mobile setup's EMCOMM capability.

[WD8BIL]

I think someone still has the Tom Vu Christmas song lurking about.  Destined to be a true classic.  In my opinion, it already is .  If someone has a copy, please post it hear for all to enjoy.

Hey Jay .... next time we're on the air remind me. I have it on a cart and would love to play it fer ya.
After all ...... Tis the Season !!!!

[Glenn NY4NC]

Wow! mobile CW! always wanted to try that... What do you use for a key/keyer while driving Chris?

40 CW mobile while driving to/from work and on weekends is probably 80 percent of my on air time of late.