It's really sad to hear it referred to as "modes we don't use as much anymore". When I was ~13, before I even had my general license, I was introduced to digital modes via DigiPan and PSK31, and it immediately captured my attention. I loved to listen to it, and eventually I upgraded and made a couple contacts (up to 1200 miles away, from Cuba!). Now that I'm through university, I want to pick up radio as a hobby again. Looking again at PSK, it is such a simple mode that would be a great exercise for teaching DSP! I spent a lot of time learning, and made a rudimentary PSK modem, only to discover that it is far less active than it used to be, and largely supplanted by FT8 - semi-auto operation, and more robust, but much more complex from a signal processing perspective. I'm sure I will still make contacts though! As long as there is a signal there, there will be somebody that is curious about it.
Digital mode is so incredibly addictive, and I am just a hobbyist. There is no rule against listening until my electricity is disconnected because I am using too much of it to listen into all the digital modes. I really want to find a satellite image hf frequency. The transceiver I have seems really to be a nice one. It is a Yaesu FT-710 aess. Someone left it back in May 2023. I have been trying to contact the owner for months. January, I unboxed it and applied power to it. I just felt too guilty to do much with it because I still felt it belonged to someone else. Come the start of February, I accepted it is mine now and started doing all I could with it, besides transmit. I downloaded Ham Radio Deluxe 5.0, figured out how to configure the virtual comports and connect it to my computer. I also figured out how to configure Ham Radio Deluxe 5.0, a programme I can not say I really like. But, it allows me to receive digital modes. I can change frequencies on the radio and the programme reads the frequency on the display. But, I can not change the frequency on the programme and it follow on the radio. I am not sure why that is not working. I have read it should work. On other programmes that have WSPR, FT8, FS8, FS8Call, FT4, RTTY, PSK, it works just fine. Maybe the Ham Radio Deluxe programme is too old for the seemingly new radio. Thus, I just stand up, go to the radio, and move the knob or punch in the frequency directly. I am having this much fun just receiving with the radio! Do you have any suggestions on frequencies to receive digital communicaiton? The Yaesu FT-710 aess, only goes up to 79.999. I have heard that amateur radio stops at 70.5Mhz for this radio. Regardless, I guess I could demodulate commercial digital communications on the bands that are not amateur radio. Without a callsign, I can not transmit anyway. But there is an entire HF world of communication that I can receive with no call sign at all. Suggestions are appreciated. Thank you in advance.
@Josh, there are still ops who do these modes, including RTTY (45) and Hell(schreiber); I've seen them on the bands and actually participated in a Feld Hell contest one time. Didn't make many contacts in that one, but I had fun doing it. Yes, there were some of the contacts that had, as you mentioned, some signal degradation, but I have one of the macros set up as an "AGN?", where I ask for their call again. I also have my (and the club's) fldigi set up to automatically look up a call on QRZ (top button above the call), so I can see their name, QTH, etc. and it logs all of that info after the call. One of these times, when you get the chance, maybe do a 'deep dive' into how to set things like that up in the Config windows.
When the PA3WFM Twente, Netherlands web SDR was first set up, happy hams sent Feld HELL greetings and retro 8 Bit Pac Man and Asteroids figures to the waterfall display.
Greetings and felicitations, radio hobbyist here. I have noticed that there are some operators that will stray from the old tradition of 10Mhz use USB. It seems prolific on 80 meters and 10 meters. It seems there is no rule against it. I have studied many of the rules and have found no rule keeping operators from doing it the other way, as well. It is not the standard, though. The majority of operators adhere to the old standard. I have noticed that maritime weather beacons do not adhere to that old standard either. I guess the versatility of modern radios allows the use of the LSB, and USB modes a bit more relaxed. I heard someone calling, "CQ contest on 10 meters LSB a week ago. He was getting lots of responses. 80 meters seems a bit like the wild west of amateur radio. It is quite, "colourful." It seems anything goes there, even if it should not. It reminds me of what citizen's band was in the 1980s. I would not even know where to get a CB radio any more. They are not in every store anymore. Regardless, I am a listener, not a transmitter. I have neither a CB license nor an amateur radio license. I doubt my old childhood CB radio license is still valid.
I am not personally acquainted with the art of ham radio operation, but I believe it would have been quite advantageous to provide audible demonstrations of the various digital modes. This would enable other individuals, particularly those who are new to the field, to readily identify and familiarize themselves with the distinct sounds associated with each mode.
They sound like screeches and bleeps. All phase shift modes sound the same, all frequency shift modes sound the same, and hellschreiber sounds like grinding metal. FT8 sounds like the mating calls of a colony of feral roombas, and SSTV sounds like a thermal printer with a turbocharger on it Hope that helps
Greetings and felicitations. Though, I do not have an Icom transceiver. I have found that using USB mode allows me to receive all digital modes using an archaic version of Ham Radio Deluxe that is free to download on the world wide web. I even receive FT4, FT8, FT8CALL, FS8, RTTY, PSK, and a few others, just using USB mode. I do not know if Icom will do the same. The radio I have has DATA-U and DATA-L. It is probably equivalent to the FT8 mode on the Icom radios, since it is a data mode. I have noticed a lot better noise rejection when I use DATA-U or DATA-L than just USB mode. I stay with the old amateur radio convention of above 10 Mhz use DATA-U, below 10Mhz use DATA-L. This radio is fascinating. I have been addicted to it since I started using it!
Hello. I have been using Ham Radio Deluxe DM780 version 5.0. It is rather a clunky version. The radio will change the display on the computer screen. But when I change the computer screen frequency, it does not change on the radio and the frequency will return to the frequency it was before I changed it on the screen. Is communication only from the radio to the computer for changing frequencies? It seems the programme should be able to change the frequency on the radio, like other programmes do. I hate getting up to change the knob every time I want to change frequencies on Ham Radio Deluxe 5.0. I did notice that there is no setting for the Yaesu FT-710 aess transceiver. I just set it for the Yaesu FT-5000 or Yaesu FT-9000 and everything works except the ability to change the frequency from the programme to the radio. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. I love listening to this radio! Using other programmes, they will change the radio frequency from the computer. The thing is addictive!
One of my favorite modes, where you actually talk to another person instead of the computer doing it all.
It's really sad to hear it referred to as "modes we don't use as much anymore".
When I was ~13, before I even had my general license, I was introduced to digital modes via DigiPan and PSK31, and it immediately captured my attention. I loved to listen to it, and eventually I upgraded and made a couple contacts (up to 1200 miles away, from Cuba!).
Now that I'm through university, I want to pick up radio as a hobby again. Looking again at PSK, it is such a simple mode that would be a great exercise for teaching DSP! I spent a lot of time learning, and made a rudimentary PSK modem, only to discover that it is far less active than it used to be, and largely supplanted by FT8 - semi-auto operation, and more robust, but much more complex from a signal processing perspective.
I'm sure I will still make contacts though! As long as there is a signal there, there will be somebody that is curious about it.
Thanks for featuring this. I learned about Feld Hell about a year ago and really enjoy the mode.
Digital mode is so incredibly addictive, and I am just a hobbyist. There is no rule against listening until my electricity is disconnected because I am using too much of it to listen into all the digital modes. I really want to find a satellite image hf frequency. The transceiver I have seems really to be a nice one. It is a Yaesu FT-710 aess. Someone left it back in May 2023. I have been trying to contact the owner for months. January, I unboxed it and applied power to it. I just felt too guilty to do much with it because I still felt it belonged to someone else. Come the start of February, I accepted it is mine now and started doing all I could with it, besides transmit. I downloaded Ham Radio Deluxe 5.0, figured out how to configure the virtual comports and connect it to my computer. I also figured out how to configure Ham Radio Deluxe 5.0, a programme I can not say I really like. But, it allows me to receive digital modes. I can change frequencies on the radio and the programme reads the frequency on the display. But, I can not change the frequency on the programme and it follow on the radio. I am not sure why that is not working. I have read it should work. On other programmes that have WSPR, FT8, FS8, FS8Call, FT4, RTTY, PSK, it works just fine. Maybe the Ham Radio Deluxe programme is too old for the seemingly new radio. Thus, I just stand up, go to the radio, and move the knob or punch in the frequency directly. I am having this much fun just receiving with the radio! Do you have any suggestions on frequencies to receive digital communicaiton? The Yaesu FT-710 aess, only goes up to 79.999. I have heard that amateur radio stops at 70.5Mhz for this radio. Regardless, I guess I could demodulate commercial digital communications on the bands that are not amateur radio. Without a callsign, I can not transmit anyway. But there is an entire HF world of communication that I can receive with no call sign at all. Suggestions are appreciated. Thank you in advance.
@Josh, there are still ops who do these modes, including RTTY (45) and Hell(schreiber); I've seen them on the bands and actually participated in a Feld Hell contest one time. Didn't make many contacts in that one, but I had fun doing it. Yes, there were some of the contacts that had, as you mentioned, some signal degradation, but I have one of the macros set up as an "AGN?", where I ask for their call again. I also have my (and the club's) fldigi set up to automatically look up a call on QRZ (top button above the call), so I can see their name, QTH, etc. and it logs all of that info after the call.
One of these times, when you get the chance, maybe do a 'deep dive' into how to set things like that up in the Config windows.
I know, I said as much.
When the PA3WFM Twente, Netherlands web SDR was first set up, happy hams sent Feld HELL greetings and retro 8 Bit Pac Man and Asteroids figures to the waterfall display.
That's an interesting mode. I also enjoy SLOWHELL which gets people to think is CW all the time... thanks for the video.
Why are you in LSB? Should it be USB or DIGU or DIGL?
Sure, Just demoing how to set it up.
@@HamRadioCrashCourse @don_n5skt DIGU right?
Dig-u is the radio supports, or just straight up USB@@AA0Z
@@HamRadioCrashCourse You did send a CQ when in LSB and then I thought you were checking for a reply. So I thought I missed something.
Greetings and felicitations, radio hobbyist here. I have noticed that there are some operators that will stray from the old tradition of 10Mhz use USB. It seems prolific on 80 meters and 10 meters. It seems there is no rule against it. I have studied many of the rules and have found no rule keeping operators from doing it the other way, as well. It is not the standard, though. The majority of operators adhere to the old standard. I have noticed that maritime weather beacons do not adhere to that old standard either. I guess the versatility of modern radios allows the use of the LSB, and USB modes a bit more relaxed. I heard someone calling, "CQ contest on 10 meters LSB a week ago. He was getting lots of responses. 80 meters seems a bit like the wild west of amateur radio. It is quite, "colourful." It seems anything goes there, even if it should not. It reminds me of what citizen's band was in the 1980s. I would not even know where to get a CB radio any more. They are not in every store anymore. Regardless, I am a listener, not a transmitter. I have neither a CB license nor an amateur radio license. I doubt my old childhood CB radio license is still valid.
Are signal reports done in this mode at all?
Whatever you want to report is done on this mode. Type out whatever you want.
@@HamRadioCrashCourse how would one determine what the signal report woken be?
Look at your S meter.
I am not personally acquainted with the art of ham radio operation, but I believe it would have been quite advantageous to provide audible demonstrations of the various digital modes. This would enable other individuals, particularly those who are new to the field, to readily identify and familiarize themselves with the distinct sounds associated with each mode.
I thought so too when I was starting out. I was wrong. The audio differences in many cases is minor to the point of not being able to tell.
They sound like screeches and bleeps. All phase shift modes sound the same, all frequency shift modes sound the same, and hellschreiber sounds like grinding metal. FT8 sounds like the mating calls of a colony of feral roombas, and SSTV sounds like a thermal printer with a turbocharger on it
Hope that helps
Will the FT8 preset on the IC-7300 allow you to do any digital mode you choose or do you need to come at it from another direction?
Greetings and felicitations. Though, I do not have an Icom transceiver. I have found that using USB mode allows me to receive all digital modes using an archaic version of Ham Radio Deluxe that is free to download on the world wide web. I even receive FT4, FT8, FT8CALL, FS8, RTTY, PSK, and a few others, just using USB mode. I do not know if Icom will do the same. The radio I have has DATA-U and DATA-L. It is probably equivalent to the FT8 mode on the Icom radios, since it is a data mode. I have noticed a lot better noise rejection when I use DATA-U or DATA-L than just USB mode. I stay with the old amateur radio convention of above 10 Mhz use DATA-U, below 10Mhz use DATA-L. This radio is fascinating. I have been addicted to it since I started using it!
I Cant work out how to adjust the ALC on 991A in fldigi 😞 , easy in wsjt-x 🙂
Just turn your volume up or down for your computer, if the 991 is set as the audio device. Watch your ALC meter as you adjust.
What I really wish I had was one of those Hellschriber machines from WW2.
All setup and ready for HellFest. FLDIGI continues to not work right for MacOS, so the Lenovo CrapTop is coming out to play
HRCC 40m net on Held Fell this week ;)
hey what the heck why not!! supposed to be crap weather weekend so...
HRD DM780 has all the hell modes...
... it does? I spent like an hour looking for it yesterday to add to this video!
@@HamRadioCrashCourse listed under Hell in the drop down menu...
Hello. I have been using Ham Radio Deluxe DM780 version 5.0. It is rather a clunky version. The radio will change the display on the computer screen. But when I change the computer screen frequency, it does not change on the radio and the frequency will return to the frequency it was before I changed it on the screen. Is communication only from the radio to the computer for changing frequencies? It seems the programme should be able to change the frequency on the radio, like other programmes do. I hate getting up to change the knob every time I want to change frequencies on Ham Radio Deluxe 5.0. I did notice that there is no setting for the Yaesu FT-710 aess transceiver. I just set it for the Yaesu FT-5000 or Yaesu FT-9000 and everything works except the ability to change the frequency from the programme to the radio. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. I love listening to this radio! Using other programmes, they will change the radio frequency from the computer. The thing is addictive!
Sorta like sstv, but smaller!
Slow scan text??
This looks fun, gotta try it sometime
Best time is tomorrow!
Thanks for the video will give it a go on Friday the 13th as FH#46 a club member.
I use MixW3 software which is really cool.
73
De Jon M5DZH
Hellacious.
It's a trick!
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My favorite digital mode! Thanks! De n5vwn