[sdiy] Information Content of Signals

[John L Marshall]

Magnus,

I think that there are many hams here, quite a few are amateur radio
operators.

Years ago my call was DL4JB
I also had a station license on MARS, DL5JB.

Take care,
John, WA7BSR
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Magnus Danielson" <cfmd at swipnet.se>
To: <buchty at cs.tum.edu>
Cc: <john.l.marshall at gte.net>; <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Information Content of Signals


> From: Rainer Buchty <buchty at cs.tum.edu>
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Information Content of Signals
> Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 20:52:24 +0200 (CEST)
>
> > > I believe that very few amateur radio operators use Baudot since maybe
> > > 1977.
> >
> > I think that's a misbelief. Plain 45 Baud Baudot RTTY was still very
> > common 10 years ago when I was doing short wave radio last time. At
least
> > way more than 100 Baud ASCII or AMTOR. (Actually, the only thing I
really
> > used my ASR-33 ASCII teletyper for was to load/store programs for my
AIM65
> > and ZX81 :)
>
> ZZZAAAPPP!!!
>
> ZX81 - I never had any of those Zinclair boxes. I was grown up on a C64
and
> then the PC entered the house. Would be fun to fiddle around with
Zinclairs
> and the likes nowdays... ;O)
>
> > Things of course may have changed nowadays as nifty little DSP boxes
like
> > the PTC-II took over, first they literally heard the grass growing
> > (rendering the good old RTTY converters useless cause there's just no
way
> > to give those the same sharp ears) and later allowing fancy stuff like
> > PSK31 and such.
> >
> > Really spoiled the hobby, IMO. Buy two boxes, connect them and you're
set.
> > Just like buying 'ham spirit' bottled.
>
> Any real ham should try to acomplish the same thing in a tubes only
solution
> ;O)
>
> > Rainer (DL1GRA)
>
> So we got hams online here... ;O)
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus - no ham since I'm not much of a pig, so no call signal
>