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1 Get Your Feet Wet with PSK Clint Hurd - KK7UQ Terry Dettman - WX7S - SGC Presented at SEAPAC Seaside, Oregon June, 00 Get Your Feet Wet with PSK Outline of Presentation Basics -Sound Card Applications Basics - Interface Requirements BPSK concept, demo & tour of Digipan MFSK concept, demo & tour of MixW Build your own interface Review of commercial interfaces Review of available software Basics of Sound Card Applications Audio frequency in 00 to 000 Hz range Modulation of audio carrier using software and sound card Transported via SSB radio Received by rig and converted back to audio spectrum Decode done using software and sound card Sound Card Applications - Basics Combo of Software, PC, Sound Card, SSB Rig & Interface Software Spectrum display to Hz resolution (step size) Bandpass filter for signal - 0 Hz Encode/Decode of signal Graphic User Interface (GUI) PC - Windows 9 or later, 00 MHz or faster Sound Card Applications - Basics Rig SSB in either USB or LSB Reasonable frequency stability Tight filters NOT needed in most cases Can NOT use ALC or Compression on Transmit Must stay within TX bandwidth - typically 00 Hz or less Interface Connects the Rig to the PC Soundcard Sound Card Operating Modes Basic Hardware Interface Computer Ham Rig V p-p SC Mic In Spkr Out SC Spkr Out V p-p Attenuator 0 mv p-p Mic In Serial Out (RTS) +- V Closure to Gnd Level Shifter PTT Sound Card Modes - Interface Block Diagram

2 Yel Red Sound Card Interface Requirements Audio from Receiver to PC Signal level Vp-p, typical signal is Vp-p Audio frequency range from 00 to 000 Hz, or whatever the Rx passband will allow Cables need to be shielded Sound Card Accepts Vp-p Before Saturating Software detects and warns against saturated signals at around. V p-p Ways to control the maximum level to the sound card: RX RF/AF Gain PC Volume Control Interface Level Control Sound Card Interface Requirements Audio from PC to Transmitter Sound Card output up to Vp-p at max level PC slider set at mid level - output is about Vp-p Rig expects microphone levels at about -0 millivolt p-p, so signal must be attenuated in the interface Frequency range from 00 to 000 Hz Max determined by Tx output bandwidth, typically 00 Hz Audio drive levels determine power output - usually run rig at % to 0% of CW rating for clean signal, and cool TX System is operating in an RF environment: Shielded cables - lengths under feet. Good grounding of all components - Rig, PC & Tuner Care taken to mute other audio sources during transmit Sound Card Interface Requirements SSB Rig Control TX On/Off Manual Switch - VOX - PTT via Serial Port Control on PC TX Audio Input - Mic connector or Accessory Port TX Audio Drive Level Set by combination of: Audio level from PC Attenuation level control on Interface Mike Gain on Rig RX Audio to PC Provided by Line Out, Speaker/Headset Out, Accessory Port Sound Card Interface.mm Stereo : 00 ohm Audio Transformer w/ switches J From Xcvr Waterfall Drive X Spkr Out k pot (Alternate) Audio Taper Primary J To R7 Sound Card Line In 8 Aud. Brn.mm Stereo Out R Tx Drive : 00 ohm k pot R.0 k Audio Transformer Audio Taper 7 Brn From Xcvr X Ret.mm Stereo Wht R C Primary C J Mic To Xcvr From R 00 R8 Blu.007uF Sound Card.0 uf Spkr Out Blu Ret Wht D N8 R. k D N8 + J R0 R AT 0 Audio C 0 uf meg 0 k Transducer Note: Return path for R9.7 k C 0 uf SP audio to monitor amplifier + Q is made through the cable N90 shields to the ground point at the PC. C.007uF FSK Grn R U To Xcvr.k D N8 Grn R Ret Wht.k N SW J U PTT Control PTT To Xcvr DTR Org (SPDT Ctr Off) N8 D RTS 7 Gnd Sleeve Org.mm Ret N Wht Stereo LED Dual Color Photo Darlington Up - Auto External Cable w/ DB9 T / LED Opto-Isolator Ctr - PTT Off All resistors Rig cable mating female serial port Red - PTT Down - PTT On /W % connector and wire conn shown for ref. Yel - FSK colors shown for ref. kk7uq Interface Model II - Schematic Diagram RJ RJ Plug Binary Phase Shift Keying - BPSK Phase modulates an audio carrier at baud Reverses phase 80 degrees (BPSK) Reduces signal level at phase shift time to reduce spurious frequencies Uses variable length encoding - most used characters are encoded into small word lengths Data rate consistent with that of a fast typist Adv: Narrow bandwidth, good performance Disadv: Poor performance on long path and over the pole contacts (phase distortion) BPSK Signal Envelope Varicode Space character = where 0 is a Phase Reversal and is no reversal must have at least two 0 between characters

3 BPSK Excerpt of Varicode SGC 00-DSP Setup for Sound Card Modes Note that lower case letters have shorter word lengths Digipan Screen with PSK Signals Digipan Screen with PSK Signals.80 USB USB 0.9 USB.070 USB 8.09 USB.070 USB.99 USB 8.0 USB PSK Frequencies Live Demo of PSK with Digipan Transceivers - SGC 00-DSP Interface - kk7uq Model II Laptop Computers Antenna - Light Bulb

4 Other Modes - PSK Designed for contest work Faster than RTTY on data rate and exchange - 00 wpm effective rate Better S/N than RTTY within db of PSK Faster sync recovery than RTTY Much lower bandwidth than RTTY Full character set Look for signals. khz higher than PSK Other Modes - MFSK Multiple Frequency Shift Keying Freqs. Four bits per tone 0 Hz Wide Uses Forward Error Correction (FEC) Uses Varicode to optimize throughput Data rate consistent with that of a fast typist Adv: Very good performance on long path contacts and over polar routes Disadv: Wider bandwidth, harder to tune, needs stable TX/RX MFSK Spectrogram Spectrogram of MFSK signal over 0 seconds of transmission. Horizonal lines are at 000 Hz and 00 Hz. Contains about 0 characters raw rate, 0 characters effective rate (FEC used). Comparison of Digital Modes Freq Hz Time Sec WPM Rates for Various Modes MixW Screen with MFSK Signals Time Sec Char/Sec WPM QSO/KHz CW 0WPM. 9.8 Feld Hell BPSK.. 0 RTTY.Baud MFSK BPSK Based on a typical way QSO exchanging English text. characters, 07 words and spaces. I.E. average characters per word.

5 MixW Screen with MFSK Signals Build Your Own Interface kk7uq Interface Model II Build Your Own Interface Interface Kit $.00 Shielded Audio Cables $.00 Rig Mic Connector $.0 Box of Altoids $.00 Total $.0 Sound Card Interface - Feature Comparisons Mic Switch Plug in Rig Cable Fully Isolated Knob Level Control Built in Audio Monitor FSK Control for RTTY Build it Yourself BuxComm Rascal kit No No Yes No No No No $0 kk7uq Model II No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No $ Ready to Go w/o Mic. Switching BuxComm Rascal MkV No Yes Yes No No Yes No $7 MFJ 7B No No No No No No No $70 Rigblaster Nomic No Yes No No No No No $7 Tigertronics Signalink No Yes Yes No No No Yes $7 Ready to Go with Mic. Switching MFJ 7 Yes No Yes No No No No $0 MFJ 79 Yes No Yes No No Yes No $0 Rigblaster Std Yes Yes No No No No No $ Rigblaster Plus Yes Yes No No No No No $ Rigblaster Pro Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No $ Built In VOX Approx Cost Sound Card Interface Sources BuxComm Discovery Bay MFJ Tigertronics West Mountain

6 Sound Card Modes Software PSK - BPSK PSK-QPSK MFSK-8 MFSK- RTTY CW Hellschreiber Name/Screen Pop Digipan X X X Internal Hamscope X X X X X YPLOG IZ8BLY X X X Internal MMTTY X X Internal Stream X X X X Internal WinPSK WinWarbler Zakanaka X X X X Logger Log Supported PSK mildlly overdriven occupies about 00+ Hz PSK badly non linear, occupies 00 Hz and has harmonic PSK signal at 0 is ok on drive level but is creating spurs down every 00 Hz probably has compression on or bad RF feedback and there is a third harmonic of the signal Common Problems & Solutions Signal at 000 is overdriven with multiples of Hz on either side of center - about 8 Hz wide Wide Signal Overdrive of audio on Tx, ALC or Compression on on Tx Hum on Signal Needs shielding on cables Common mode noise, use transformers on both channels Ground all system components Harmonics of audio carrier ALC on, Compression on Transmitting outside of Tx bandpass Transmitting below 800 Hz audio offset Frequency offset between stations RIT is ON, or XIT is ON One of the transmitters has an offset Common Problems & Solutions Signal Cutting In and Out CPU too slow Too many processes running on CPU and active processing VOX is set too close to the signal level Bad connection Strange signals mixed with a good psk signal Mute all sources on Playback except WAVE Sounds from the shack being transmitted, like typing sounds, telephone ringing, etc. Mike is active Mike on PC is active (Mute it - see above)

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