[pskmail] Re: QSY
- From: Glenn Roeser Roeser <wb2lmv@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 11:02:37 -0400
Bernard,
Tweaking is a good thing and I am enjoying it all. I am not bothered in the
least by all of these little adjustments. Pskmail has a very bright future
as far as I'm concerned, it could play a big part with EmComm, it just has
to catch on here in the U.S.
As far as my PC goes, it was advertised as the "smallest desktop in the
world." It has this tiny little tower and it is an Asus eee. CPU N270 @
1.6GHz with 0.99 GB of RAM.
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Bernard Dekok <kc9sgv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Glenn,
>
> Did you say you use a laptop for the server ?
> What is the processing speed ?
>
> I use an Acer Netbook for the client here.
> 1.7 GHz
>
> I think you are fast enough. It is just my imagination that some of the
> other servers are faster, but I must reconfirm this.
> Maybe it is just a setting issue.
> We will time the delay next time.
>
> Please don't get me wrong.
> You are running an excellent station over there.
> We are just tweaking here.....
>
> 80 M...
> I run on 80 M overnight during weekends.
> Reason being I am mostly out of town during the week, except this month.
> And FlDigi needs to be rebooted now and then....=(
> Maybe not anymore...Ryan might have found the cure.
>
> My reasoning for 80M is that 30M is mostly dead by the time most guys
> return from work during the week.
> Those who want to test PSKMail then don't have a path.
> 40 M goes long to Central America from Chicago by then.
> However, we are not in prime time with PSKMail in the U.S. yet.
> So even 80 M does not get a lot of hits.
> More advertising for PSKMail needs to be done on the Internet forums here.
> (QRZ.com, Eham.net, etc.)
> Any others ?
>
> I think that 80 M vertical will work great.
> Omni-directional and all.
>
> I am thinking of putting up a 17 M vertical dipole for yachts around the
> coast by day.
>
> KC9SGV
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Glenn Roeser Roeser <wb2lmv@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Hello John,
>> I didn't see more than 1 or 2 second delay this morning. Yesterday I did
>> see a delay of up to 4 seconds, but it was the time that it took Fldigi to
>> decode after the transmissions. Since taking the Flidigi waterfall off the
>> "pause" position and returning it to "normal" I haven't seen any delay in
>> the decoding.
>> Very 73, Glenn
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:37 AM, John Douyere <vk2eta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Bernard and Glenn,
>>>
>>> I am not sure the latency from the server would cause anything but just
>>> a slow down of the link exchange.
>>>
>>> This is because the server is the master in terms of timeouts and the
>>> client waits forever if necessary.
>>>
>>> It the latency was significant it would make the link painfully slow of
>>> course. How many seconds of delay are you seeing between the client's end
>>> of transmission and the server's start of transmission?
>>>
>>> 73, John
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Glenn Roeser Roeser
>>> <wb2lmv@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Bernard,
>>>> I was watching the transfer and it looked a lot more stable and there
>>>> was quite a bit of data passed successfully. "I get by with a little help
>>>> from my friends." (-=
>>>> I'm not sure what else to do about the latency...I cleaned out some
>>>> things earlier to speed things up on the PC. Do you feel there is a need
>>>> for a server on 80 meters? I have a very good 1/4 wave vertical for 80
>>>> meters. I have tuned the SSB portion of 80 during the day, and I am able to
>>>> get very strong signal reports out to about 150 miles or so during the
>>>> daytime, even in the summer.
>>>> I'm back on 30 meters for now, talk later.
>>>> Very 73, Glenn
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Bernard Dekok <kc9sgv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Glenn,
>>>>>
>>>>> Wiped out by Pactor 3 hash !
>>>>> And then no propagation later on.
>>>>>
>>>>> The settings that I sent you are by no means the end of it.
>>>>> These can still be tweaked, but worked OK for me so far.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, this morning on 40 we had some deep fading, Winmor, ALE, and
>>>>> then the Pactor 3.
>>>>> That frequency is my frequency of choice after months of research.
>>>>> It is quiet for most of the day, and far enough away from SA voice,
>>>>> starting on 7010 MHz.
>>>>> And just above the PSK and Winmor crowd lower down.
>>>>>
>>>>> You still have some latency.
>>>>> (Take too long to transmit.)
>>>>>
>>>>> In your pskmailrc.pl file: (Linux)
>>>>> Make sure your Txdelay = 0
>>>>>
>>>>> Will try again later on 30M.
>>>>>
>>>>> 73,
>>>>> KC9SGV
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Glenn Roeser Roeser
>>>>> <wb2lmv@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Bernard, Andy,
>>>>>> Thank you both for testing and then suggesting solutions.
>>>>>> I made the necessary adjustments to the Fldigi program. I had the
>>>>>> receive RSID on, but not the transmit, the transmit RSID is on now as
>>>>>> well.
>>>>>> I did not have the proper settings in the modems > pskmail tab, those
>>>>>> too have been set correctly now.
>>>>>> As far as the latency goes, I had the waterfall on pause to conserve
>>>>>> resources and I had noticed that after receiving a transmission from
>>>>>> Bernard yesterday that it took quite a while for the print to appear on
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> pskmail screen. I have set the waterfall back to "normal."
>>>>>> I will remain on 40 meters this morning until I see that the band has
>>>>>> gone out. Then I will QSY to 30 meters, and when I do I will make the
>>>>>> adjustment on the wiki server page to show that I have moved.
>>>>>> Once again, thank you both for your help, I want this station to
>>>>>> work properly and to be useful to the pskmail community.
>>>>>> Very 73, Glenn
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Bernard Dekok <kc9sgv@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We connected and then I was left in connected mode.
>>>>>>> I think there is a latency problem here.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Maybe it is on your side, since my client can do long file transfers
>>>>>>> to other servers.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you run a Signalink USB, then set the DLY knob fully
>>>>>>> anti-clockwise + 1 notch clockwise.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Will try again tomorrow.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Bernard Dekok <kc9sgv@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is your FLDigi RXid and TXid on ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Bernard Dekok <kc9sgv@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Same here.
>>>>>>>>> I think you are not on frequency, or do not follow an off
>>>>>>>>> frequency signal.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> In FLDigi :
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Configure>Modems>Misc>PSKMail
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 1000
>>>>>>>>> 50
>>>>>>>>> 3
>>>>>>>>> 50
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Check Reset to carrier
>>>>>>>>> Check Report ARQ frames average S/N
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Save
>>>>>>>>> Close
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Andrew O'Brien <k3ukandy@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Glen, your station is responding to my Pings on 40M but not
>>>>>>>>>> responding
>>>>>>>>>> when I send a Connect command. Pings returned have been 69% and
>>>>>>>>>> 82%
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Andy K3UK
>>>>>>>>>> Fredonia NY (near Buffalo)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Glenn Roeser Roeser <
>>>>>>>>>> wb2lmv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> > Hi Bernard,
>>>>>>>>>> > My server is now on 7.103 usb dial + 1K I will leave it there
>>>>>>>>>> overnight. I
>>>>>>>>>> > hope that you will be able to upload your data successfully.
>>>>>>>>>> > Very 73, Glenn
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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