I recently purchased a second-hand Hal DXP-38 which works rather well
on RTTY as I discovered in the CQWW RTTY contest recently but I really
do want to find some live person to person Clover activity.
Is there any? Where exactly? I read comments on eham.net from last
year saying some people hang out on 14.063 5 LSB but is that not, for
the US hams with their obligatory band plan, outside of the digital
segment?
It seemed to me that Clover was a somewhat elegant mode of digital
comms not least with it being, effectively, fully duplex. I appreciate
that PC-generated digital modes are increasingly popular but there
must surely be a lot of Hal equipment out there?

Dominic, G4SLW
email address not genuine but QTHR.

wrote in message
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I recently purchased a second-hand Hal DXP-38 which works rather well
on RTTY as I discovered in the CQWW RTTY contest recently but I really
do want to find some live person to person Clover activity.
Is there any? Where exactly? I read comments on eham.net from last
year saying some people hang out on 14.063 5 LSB but is that not, for
the US hams with their obligatory band plan, outside of the digital
segment?
It seemed to me that Clover was a somewhat elegant mode of digital
comms not least with it being, effectively, fully duplex. I appreciate
that PC-generated digital modes are increasingly popular but there
must surely be a lot of Hal equipment out there?

Dominic, G4SLW
email address not genuine but QTHR.


Dominic,
Look for a U.S. Ham Hank Oredson W0RLI. He was very active with CLOVER,
along with Dennis Ely W5XO, and a pretty good bunch of Hams around the U.S.
I know there are many more, but Hank is sometimes on this Group.
73,
Paul N5XMV

I've occasionally run into a W6 who hangs out around 14065.5 LSB.
It's pretty lonely there.

I have a friend who twisted my arm to get into Clover when it first
came out, using the original PCI-4000 boards. He still seems to like
Clover, mostly because of the quasi-full-duplex operation; at least
I haven't been able to get him to try any of the newer modes. I haven't
used it in quite some time. The new sound card modes seem to offer a
lot more activity and perhaps better performance.
--

jhhaynes at earthlink dot net

"Hippie" wrote in message
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wrote in message
...
I recently purchased a second-hand Hal DXP-38 which works rather well
on RTTY as I discovered in the CQWW RTTY contest recently but I really
do want to find some live person to person Clover activity.
Is there any? Where exactly? I read comments on eham.net from last
year saying some people hang out on 14.063 5 LSB but is that not, for
the US hams with their obligatory band plan, outside of the digital
segment?
It seemed to me that Clover was a somewhat elegant mode of digital
comms not least with it being, effectively, fully duplex. I appreciate
that PC-generated digital modes are increasingly popular but there
must surely be a lot of Hal equipment out there?

Dominic, G4SLW
email address not genuine but QTHR.


Dominic,
Look for a U.S. Ham Hank Oredson W0RLI. He was very active with CLOVER,
along with Dennis Ely W5XO, and a pretty good bunch of Hams around the
U.S.
I know there are many more, but Hank is sometimes on this Group.
73,
Paul N5XMV


Hi Paul!

The CLOVER BBS forwarding operations pretty much shut
down a couple years ago in favor of PACTOR II. I still have
some controllers, both P38 and PCI-4000, but have not had
them on air for a long time now. I tune the digital segments
from time to time, but no longer hear any CLOVER sigs.

--

... Hank

http://home.earthlink.net/~horedson
http://home.earthlink.net/~w0rli

Well I shall just have to keep making occasional CQ calls on a regular
weekly basis in the hope that somebody somewhere will recognise the
sound and fire up their Clover terminal unit. Unfortunately my station
is very modest with at best an MFJ magnetic loop (horizontal) or a
7Mhz doublet (which is useable most bands) so I wouldn't ever
guarantee a signal into the USA but I will give it a go. Probably
14.065 5 LSB.
Thanks for the information.

Dominic, G4SLW

wrote in message
...
Well I shall just have to keep making occasional CQ calls on a regular
weekly basis in the hope that somebody somewhere will recognise the
sound and fire up their Clover terminal unit. Unfortunately my station
is very modest with at best an MFJ magnetic loop (horizontal) or a
7Mhz doublet (which is useable most bands) so I wouldn't ever
guarantee a signal into the USA but I will give it a go. Probably
14.065 5 LSB.
Thanks for the information.

Same story with PACTOR, very difficult to find partners for a live QSO. Most
of my PACTOR live QSOs (with a human at the other end) nowadays are skeds
with friends. You may want to contact some of the CLOVER BBSs listed here to
verify your setup:
http://users.iafrica.com/z/zs/zs5s/index_buls.html

Being a fixed station (non-/mm) I'm mainly using the numerous (PACTOR) BBSs
to probe the propagation. Much better than monitoring beacons, because
it also tells you how your signal arrives over there.

Markus HB9BRJ / AE6MG

"Markus L" wrote in message
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wrote in message
...
Well I shall just have to keep making occasional CQ calls on a regular
weekly basis in the hope that somebody somewhere will recognise the
sound and fire up their Clover terminal unit. Unfortunately my station
is very modest with at best an MFJ magnetic loop (horizontal) or a
7Mhz doublet (which is useable most bands) so I wouldn't ever
guarantee a signal into the USA but I will give it a go. Probably
14.065 5 LSB.
Thanks for the information.

Same story with PACTOR, very difficult to find partners for a live QSO.
Most
of my PACTOR live QSOs (with a human at the other end) nowadays are skeds
with friends. You may want to contact some of the CLOVER BBSs listed here
to
verify your setup:
http://users.iafrica.com/z/zs/zs5s/index_buls.html

Being a fixed station (non-/mm) I'm mainly using the numerous (PACTOR)
BBSs
to probe the propagation. Much better than monitoring beacons, because
it also tells you how your signal arrives over there.

Markus HB9BRJ / AE6MG


That list is very much out of date, 5 years old.

I have been off CLOVER for 4 years, same for N6IYA
(Who is now W6JWS).

--

... Hank

http://home.earthlink.net/~horedson
http://home.earthlink.net/~w0rli

So, what 'mode' are you on these days? Just curious..

Jer -n6jp-

"Hank Oredson" wrote in message
news:NNu2f.1022:
: That list is very much out of date, 5 years old.
:
: I have been off CLOVER for 4 years, same for N6IYA
: (Who is now W6JWS).
:
: --
:
: ... Hank
:
: http://home.earthlink.net/~horedson
: http://home.earthlink.net/~w0rli
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