PSK31

[W2NAP]

SO I been messing around with fldigi on linux most of the day/night. kinda interesting. I am one thats not big on the whole hooking pc to rig guys but at night when everyone is asleep and I am awake (hey im nocturnal) i tend to get yelled at if I listen to my normal cw or ssb stuff so I figured what the hell ill play with this digital stuff.

Now to give some info on what I am using.. FT-847 hooked to a broken homemade 220Mhz ground plane (ain't been able to get my HF stuff up due to weather) but even as horrid of a missmatched antenna it does pull in signals. matter of fact in the last 20 mins I have copied about 7 dif countries on 20m

So now I am going to have to brew up a interface and a cat control. maybe get my indoor 20m dipole back up in here again as well.

or my other option is sound proofing this room......

[kb2vxa]

You can brew beer but you have to assemble an interface. BTW I hooked the rig up directly to the sound card and it worked well. Then there is cat control, ask anyone who ever had one, you can't control a cat. Your best bet is soundproofing the room, or try going to bed like normal people.

Sick humor mode... off.
Good luck with the digital modes, better weather is coming. I hope it is, cabin fever is driving me NORMAL!

[W2NAP]

You can brew beer but you have to assemble an interface. BTW I hooked the rig up directly to the sound card and it worked well. Then there is cat control, ask anyone who ever had one, you can't control a cat. Your best bet is soundproofing the room, or try going to bed like normal people.

Sick humor mode... off.
Good luck with the digital modes, better weather is coming. I hope it is, cabin fever is driving me NORMAL!

lol. I got right now ext spk out going into mic in on the pc. it works. and pretty amazed what I am picking up since I am using a broken down brewed 220 GP to listen on. I think the indoor 20m dipole is going to come back here real soon.

as for better weather.. im not holding my breath.. NWS IND says decent chance Mar-May is going to be below normal temps and above avg precip. so maybe in July it will be better

[W2NAP]

I also got this sending to the pskreporter.info site. http://pskreporter.info/pskmap?W2IBC
Not sure why it shows me unknown but I am on 20M

[n0iu]

I really wouldn't bother with the rig control (unless of course you want to) since PSK activity basically only happens on one spot on each band.

[W2NAP]

I really wouldn't bother with the rig control (unless of course you want to) since PSK activity basically only happens on one spot on each band.

I will prob do it just to experiment with it. since fldigi does do more then just psk31. we was playing with cw up on 2m last night for a bit.

[n0iu]

we was playing with cw up on 2m last night for a bit.

But I thought 2m was just for EMCOMM whackers?

[W2NAP]

But I thought 2m was just for EMCOMM whackers?

for the most part it is. then you have people like me who dont buy into that crap and use a radio to actually talk about things.

[kb2vxa]

"I got right now ext spk out going into mic in on the pc. it works."
It works better if you feed the line input on the sound card. That way you can increase the radio volume giving you better level control and better S/N ratio.

"I think the indoor 20m dipole is going to come back here real soon."
A taste of honey, now you want the whole jar. Go for it.

2M FM is for EMCOMM whackers, repeater cliques and 2M CBers, the bottom of the band is where the CW and SSB real hams are. Maybe by now they've figured out that digital modes work just as well on VHF.

[W2NAP]

yeah Ill switch it tonight to line in. rigs volume control is very twitchy.

as for 2m.... 440 is better.....