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The Voice of America Radiogram show, hosted by Kim Andrew Elliot, KD9XB, will be testing a variety of digital modes on March 16 and 17.

The data transmissions can be decoded by anyone with an AM shortwave receiver using any of the popular sound-card-based programs such as Fldigi, Ham Radio Deluxe, MixW, MultiPSK, DigiPan (for BPSK31, BPSK63 and QPSK31 only), CocoaModem (for Macs) and others.

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American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources

This is a review of the Current and most used Digital modes in ham and SWL radio and the free software and simple setup to get you on them
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Throughout its 62 years, the Dayton Hamvention® has showcased the best that Amateur Radio has to offer. Each year, a specific theme — such as Amateur Radio clubs, global friendship or the advent of digital modes — spotlights one of the many facets of the Amateur Radio Service. And when Hamvention opens on May 17, 2013, at Hara Arena, the 2013 theme DX Hamvention will reflect an important part…

American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources

As a follow on from my previous video introducing the SDR, here is a collection of various digital modes used by utilities, mariners and amateur radio users. There are various modes such as XSL, TADIL, HFDL, Pactor, CW, HF Fax, Packet, JT, ALE, DRM, RTTY and various OFDM schemes.
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Got my FT-450 setup for Digital modes with a Donner’s interface. it all seems to be hooked up normally.. PPT The radio.. send the audio.. but I dont show up anywhere on the reception map.. and no one returns the CQ’s.. Stumped!
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This video show how handy it is to work PSK-31 on an iphone/ipod using RDP remote control. This is using an RDP program on the iphone to remotely control the computer in the shack which is running Ham Radio Deluxe 5. In my case the shack is in a building not connected to the house, so this is a really handy way to work digital modes such as PSK or RTTY anywhere in the house via wifi to the shack laptop. The combination of pskreporter displaying perfectly on the iphone browser, and using hrd remotely makes PSK easy to work from any chair in the house. The RDP client I used for the iphone is called Jaadu RDP, but there are others available.
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Check out these Amateur Radio images:

Amateur Radio Rig

Image by Joshua Fuller
Love this shot. It came out well considering the lighting conditions.

About the FT-897:
The FT-897D is a rugged, innovative, multiband, multimode portable transceiver for the amateur radio MF/HF/VHF/UHF bands. Providing coverage of the 160-10 meter bands plus the 6 m, 2 m, and 70 cm bands, the FT-897 includes operation on the SSB, CW, AM, FM, and Digital modes, and it’s capable of 20-Watt portable operation using internal batteries, or up to 100 Watts when using an external 13.8-volt DC power source.

My first time ever on RTTY or other digital modes. I wish I had a macro lens on the camera and someone else to operate it plus some daylight bulbs. Pimp this video.
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5A7A Libya DXpedition 2006. A total of 112.000 worldwide Amateur Radio contacts. Using all modes including digital modes, EME (Moon Bouncing) and 160m Topband (7700 contacts).
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Terminal Node Controller packet modem prescribed by N2RVQ KISS protocol APRS autmatic position/packet reporting system AFSK Audio Frequency Shift Keying MX 614 8 cm x 4.2 cm 30 grams testing with sound generator 17th Dec 2009
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This is a prerlease segments for bastard Sons of Dial-Up – www.BSoDtv.org This is a build of the Tiny TNCx Kit, which hooks to a ham radio (or your FRS Radio) that lets you operate digital modes. A Terminal Mode Controller (TNC) is pretty much an old school modem. It turns binary bits of data from a terminal (a computer or PDA) into sound which can then be transmitted over radio waves.
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Ham Radio Station KB2PSM Robert

Image by Whiskeygonebad
Ham Station KB2PSM Robert at the his old station setup – about 6 years ago. Yes: He’s a two-scope ham for sure. Nice to have to adjust one’s psk-31 signal.

2010 ARRL Technical Excellence Award Winners Announced:
His involvement in Amateur Radio has gone through several phases: homebuilt QRP, amateur satellites, early computer-based digital modes (PSK31, MSFK, etc), and occasional contesting.
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IOTA News from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
QSL via DL2VFR (bureau/direct). EU-042, DL, Schleswig-Holstein State North West group: German HAMs announced to become active from Hallig Hooge (Ockenswarft,DLFF-013) signing DK0RZ and DL0DFF in SSB/CW/PSK31 on the HF bands from Oct 5-8.
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