14-09-2020, 09:25 PM
Hi again all,
I've added a beacon every 3 mins broadcasting the callsign (in mode 700D).
On Saturday (in the USA) David did a FreeDV talk on the TAPR conference.
TAPR did a live UTube video of the Conference, David's talk 5:30AM on Sunday here.
My HF noise level is high here and my antennae are not great and I'm in the middle
between Melbourne and Brisbane. This is making testing/demonstrating it's usefulness
is hard, quite hard. I need reports from a skip distance away and that's 1000Km plus
for 20m in the day.
How do I get some stations to test the mode? I always publish my current frequency
on qso.freedv.org. I've "bothered" other email groups such as "RepeaterBuilder" and
"UKMicrowave". Only one taker??
My sourcecode is available for others to try, "freebeacon" with mods.
www.unixservice.com.au/parrot/src
Hardware requirement is simple, any SSB transceiver that can stay on frequency within 10Hz.
Even an old crystal locked ex. marine radio (on a ham band of course) Other users can move to your frequency.
Any Linux computer, Intel or Raspberry Pi, any sound dongle or internal and a serial port for PTT.
Need help with the Linux, please please ask.
Alan VK2ZIW
I've added a beacon every 3 mins broadcasting the callsign (in mode 700D).
On Saturday (in the USA) David did a FreeDV talk on the TAPR conference.
TAPR did a live UTube video of the Conference, David's talk 5:30AM on Sunday here.
My HF noise level is high here and my antennae are not great and I'm in the middle
between Melbourne and Brisbane. This is making testing/demonstrating it's usefulness
is hard, quite hard. I need reports from a skip distance away and that's 1000Km plus
for 20m in the day.
How do I get some stations to test the mode? I always publish my current frequency
on qso.freedv.org. I've "bothered" other email groups such as "RepeaterBuilder" and
"UKMicrowave". Only one taker??
My sourcecode is available for others to try, "freebeacon" with mods.
www.unixservice.com.au/parrot/src
Hardware requirement is simple, any SSB transceiver that can stay on frequency within 10Hz.
Even an old crystal locked ex. marine radio (on a ham band of course) Other users can move to your frequency.
Any Linux computer, Intel or Raspberry Pi, any sound dongle or internal and a serial port for PTT.
Need help with the Linux, please please ask.
Alan VK2ZIW