[GreenKeys] Bell 103 demodulator?
epvgk at limpoc.com
epvgk at limpoc.com
Sat Sep 13 11:42:02 EDT 2014
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 09:54:48AM +0100, Dave G4UGM wrote:
> Well those tones about sound right for Bell 103, as I see from
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_103_modem
>
> "The answering station used a mark tone of 2,225 Hz and a space tone of
> 2,025 Hz."
>
> So is 266.6 baud the right number? Might be worth looking in something like
> spectrum lab but I can't get a decent waterfall display and I am not really
> used to the tool.
>
> Dave.
yeah, and also, should the encoded data be expected to be ascii? 7 or 8 bits?
parity? and even if so, does it contain something that would even look like
text?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GreenKeys [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
> epvgk at limpoc.com
> Sent: 13 September 2014 09:42
> To: W2HX
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> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Bell 103 demodulator?
>
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 08:36:00PM -0700, W2HX wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > I have an audio file (wav) that I have been told represents data in
> > the following audio format: Bell 103 data, 266.6 baud, 850 shift,
> 1300/2100 tones Does anyone know what software can be used to decode this? I
> am posting it here in case it helps figure this out. Thank you all.
> >
> > http://www.w2hx.com/x/PRC-319/
> >
> >
> > 73 Eugene W2HX
>
> I fiddled around with it a little but no luck. The tones appear to be 220 Hz
>
> apart, not 850, if the file's WAV header is correct and it's sampled at
> 16khz.
> The tones seem to be 2228 and 2008 Hz, with the higher one as mark.
>
> Even so, I couldn't get minimodem or fldigi to decode it to anything human
>
> readable either as ascii or baudot with any of the permutations of options I
>
> could think of... :(
>
>
> eric
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