Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Multipsk to add Mil-Std 188-110A

Fans of Multipsk will be happy to know that Patrick, F6CTE, developer of the program, is in the process of adding the Mil-Std-188-110A serial modem mode to the popular decoding software. This mode will become part of the professional package and not the freeware version.

Mil-Std 188-110a is a mode commonly used by various military services, including the US Department of Defense services, US Coast Guard, the Chinese military, Mexican Navy, Swedish Navy, the Australian ADF-HFCS, Austria Navy, Swiss diplo nets, Georgia military, Venezuela Army/Navy, and the Spanish Navy to name a few. Since the Skysweep software is going away in the near future, this is very welcomed news. Patrick's program just keeps getting better and is very reasonably priced to het the professional modes.

You can learn more about the Mil-Std-188-110A mode at
http://pubs.drdc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc03/p518678.pdf

You can also learn more about this mode in Joerg Klingenfuss' Radio Data Code Manual available from our friends at Universal Radio via the link below
http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/books/5104.html

You can hear an audio sample on the Taunus Signals website at
http://www.signals.taunus.de/TABLES/VOCODER.HTML

Here are the current modes decoded by the Multipsk software:

Phase Shift Keying modes:
BPSK: BPSK31-63-125-250 / CHIP (64/128) / PSK10 / PSKFEC31 / PSKAM10-31-50
BPSK with SSTV: PSK63 F - PSK220F + DIGISSTV "Run"
QPSK: QPSK31-63-125-250
MPSK: MT63
PACKET BPSK1200-250-63 + APRS+ DIGISSTV "Run"

On-Off Keying Modes:
CW / CCW-OOK / CCW-FSK / QRSS

Frequency Shift Keying modes:
PACKET: 110-300-1200 bauds + APRS+ DIGISSTV "Run"
PACTOR 1 / AMTOR FEC-Navtex / AMTOR ARQ / SITOR A
ASCII / RTTY 45-50-75-100-110-150-200 / SYNOP + SHIP
1382 / GMDSS DSC / ACARS (VHF) / DGPS

Multi Frequency Shift Keying modes:
MFSK8 / MFSK16 (+SSTV)
OLIVIA / Contestia / RTTYM / VOICE
THROB/THROBX
DominoF / DominoEX
PAX / PAX2
Automatic Link Establishment (see http://www.hflink.com) MIL-STD-188-141A+
ARQ FAE / ALE400 + ARQ FAE
DTMF, SELCAL
JT65 (A B and C)

Hellschreiber modes:
FELD HELL / FM HELL(105-245) / PSK HELL / HELL 80

Graphic modes:
HF FAX / SSTV / PSK SSTV modes (mentioned above) / MFSK116 SSTV (mentioned above)

DSP modes:
Filters / Analysis / Binaural CW reception

Identifiers:
Video ID / RS ID / Call ID

RTTY, CW, BPSK31, BPSK63 and PSKFEC31 Panoramics

TCP/IP digital modem

Integered SdR demodulator/modulator

You can learn more about the Multipsk family of software at
http://f6cte.free.fr/index_anglais.htm

If you are active on HF utes and you want to decode digital signals, Multipsk is a "must" download.

73 and good hunting de Larry