We are hosting a Veteran's Military Appreciation Day at Sikorsky Aircraft on Veteran's Day, November 11, 2010.
Here's the announcement from the ARRL special events website page:

      11/11/2010 | Military Appreciation Day at Sikorsky Aircraft

      Nov 11, 1200Z-1800Z, N1S, Stratford, CT. Greater Bridgeport Amateur Radio Club . 28.350 21.360 14.260 7.250. Certificate. John Russo, 104 Woodside Ave, Waterbury, CT 06708. Also sponsored by Derby Office of Emergency Management and Sikorsky Aircraft's Veteran's Association to honor all Vets and servicemen presently deployed. www.gbarc.net

The Greater Bridgeport Amateur Radio Club (GBARC) will be operating out of the Sikorsky Aircraft cafeteria. We'll be getting some of our employees to express their appreciation for the service rendered by vets. Hope to hear some of you on the air. Please spread the word and help to make this a successful event!

Frank Krasnicki - K1CRU
fkrasnicki@gmail.com

I hope that this isn't too much off topic.

We are hosting a Veteran's Military Appreciation Day at Sikorsky Aircraft on Veteran's Day, November 11, 2010.
Here's the announcement from the ARRL special events website page:

      11/11/2010 | Military Appreciation Day at Sikorsky Aircraft

      Nov 11, 1200Z-1800Z, N1S, Stratford, CT. Greater Bridgeport Amateur Radio Club . 28.350 21.360 14.260 7.250. Certificate. John Russo, 104 Woodside Ave, Waterbury, CT 06708. Also sponsored by Derby Office of Emergency Management and Sikorsky Aircraft's Veteran's Association to honor all Vets and servicemen presently deployed. www.gbarc.net

The Greater Bridgeport Amateur Radio Club (GBARC) will be operating out of the Sikorsky Aircraft cafeteria. We'll be getting some of our employees to express their appreciation for the service rendered by vets. Hope to hear some of you on the air. Please spread the word and help to make this a successful event!

Frank Krasnicki - K1CRU
fkrasnicki@gmail.com

Is anyone out there operating 2 meter SSTV in the New Haven/Fairfield County area of Connecticut?
Frank
K1CRU

Even better, does anyone know of a piece of software that will recognize a digital mode as soon as you tune it on the waterfall?
I use MixW which is a great program, but doesn't auto recognize a mode. You have to select it from a drop down menu.
I'd like to see a piece of software that would flag the mode in a pop-up window when you tune it on the waterfall.
Sound files can be helpful, but the problem is that some modes have options which change their on the air sound (data rate, bandwidth, number of tones, etc).
Anyone know of anything currently available or in the works? I'd even PAY for a program like that!
Frank
K1CRU

Anybody using FNpsk for emergency communication on a regular basis?

I had the same problem...noise in the Crystal soundcard. I bought an i-Mic USB sound adapter from Griffin Technologies and it cleaned up the problem...clean TX waveform too. Best $30 I ever spent!

I'm using the -718 with Buxcomm's Rascal...works fine. I did have a problem with my IBM Thinkpad 600E's Crystal soundcard...very noisy. When I fired up Digipan, all I got was gibberish on PSK. I bought an i-Mic USB sound adapter from Griffin Technologies and it cleaned up the noise big time...well worth the 30 bucks!
K1CRU

Anybody have experience with this cable and the ICOM-718?
K1CRU

I had a lot of problems with gibberish and it turned out to be my laptop soundcard. I have an IBM Thinkpad 600E, which has a Crystal soundcard. The soundcard noise is what caused the gibberish. Someone in the forum posted a reference to the Griffin Technologies iMic USB sound adapter. I bought one, and what a difference! The iMic cleaned up the waterfall display, and now I have no problem copying even weak PSK31 signals. It's a $30 investment. Well worth the money!

I had a lot of problems with noise on my 600E. Same thing...a bunch of garbage when I tried to tune a PSK31 station. The 600E uses a crystal soundcard which appears to be really noisy. I read a post on the digial forum which described a USB sound interface from Griffin Technologies called iMic. I bought one and it cleaned up the noise like you wouldn't believe!
You gotta try this....costs $30, and it's well worth it.