70 Years of Amateur Digital Modes
by Murray Greenman ZL1BPU
May 2018
TODO: there are a ton of products, callsigns, etc. in this document that have not been added. This would be worth circling back on some day for historical contexts.
| Notes |
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| amateur radio |
| digital mode |
| AMTOR, PACTOR, CLOVER, OLIVIA |
| GPS |
| RTTY |
| Hellschreiber |
| Fascimile |
| CW |
| AM, FM |
| HF |
| DX |
| radio contesting |
| teleprinter |
| FSK |
| on-off keying |
| fading |
| FSK modem |
| VHF |
| QST Magazine |
| Ham Radio Magazine |
| polar keying |
| transistor |
| Creed selector |
| oscillator |
| ionosphere |
| CQ |
| CMOS |
| toroidal choke |
| Yaesu |
| Xerox |
| Western Union |
| QSO |
| BASIC |
| IBM AT clone |
| DOS |
| Hamcomm interface |
| BMKMulty |
| Kantronics |
| packet radio |
| Baycom Packet Modem |
| AX25 |
| 386 |
| KISS mode |
| TCP/IP |
| Linux |
| SMTP |
| RS232 |
| dumb terminal |
| weather satellite |
| NASA |
| beam antenna |
| WEFAX |
| SATFAX |
| WXSat |
| sound card |
| Motorola |
| math coprocessor |
| noise reduction |
| Texas Instruments |
| baud (bps) |
| DSP |
| finite impulse response |
| Fast Fourier Transforms |
| quadrature modulation |
| digital frequency synthesis |
| LF |
| PSK31 |
| SLOWPSK |
| Creative SoundBlaster |
| ISA |
| Auckland University Radio Research Lab |
| Trinity College, Cambridge |
| propagation |
| Doppler effect |
| NVIS |
| Morse code |
| MOSAIC |
| Quick BASIC |
| bandwidth |
| Spectogram |
| Feld-Hell |
| QRSS |
| linear transmitter |
| WYSIWYG |
| WAV file |
| Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS) synthesizer |
| CASTLE mode |
| MFSK16 |
| scatter |
| Piccolo |
| Coquelet |
| IEEE |
| shift keying |
| MMVARI |
| FLDIGI |
| MULTIPSK |
| Varicode |
| STREAM |
| MFSK8 |
| MSK31 |
| QPSK31 |
| BPSK31 |
| DominoEX |
| FSQCall |
| cosine shaping |
| multi-path |
| sideband |
| beacon |
| meteor scatter |
| MT63 |
| Walsh-Hadamard |
| waterfall display |
| Chip 64 |
| spread-spectrum |
| PSK |
| phase |
| JASON |
| Incremental Frequency Keying |
| WSPR |
| inter-symbol interference |
| Viterbi decoder |
| lightning alley |
| QRN |
| THOR |
| NBTV - narrow band TV |
| SSTV |
| STANAG 4285 |
| Clicklock |
| Nixie Clock |
| Hewlett Packard |
| frequency counter |
| PSKSounder |
| grid map |
| Chirppix |
| MEPT |
| LCD |
| ATTiny2313 |
| assembly language |
| Adruino |
| Windows |
| FST (Fast Simple Telemetry) |
| GPSDO |
| CDMA |
| reverse engineering |
| rolling code |
| EEPROM |
| CMSK |
| P-N sequence |
| narrow band |
| interleaver, matrix interleaver |
| WSQ |
| CSMA |
| WSQ2 |
| SSB |
| exciter |
| Linksys NSLU2 |
| WPM (Words per Minute) |
| FEC |
| tone spacing |
| simplex |
| landline |
| satellite phone |
| cellular phone |
| repeater |
| Christchurch earthquakes |
| Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) |
| post mortem |
| ARRL, TAPR |
| Radcomm |
| FSQplot |
| FSE (Fast Simple Error Correction) |
| Reed-Solomon |
| FSM (Fast Simple Messaging) |
| FSP (Fast Simple Privacy) |
| WSPRplot |
| WSPRnet |
| UTC |
| IFK+ |
| ANSI C |
| squelch |
| S-Meter |
| Index p. 78 |