RSID transmits a short burst at the start of your transmission which identifies the mode you are using. Please, make sure you are using the RSID (Reed Solomon Identification – RSID or TXID, RXID) option in your software. In Fldigi, the RSID is the TXID and RXID make sure to check (turn on) each, the TXID and RXID. I encourage ALL operators, using any digital mode such as Olivia, to TURN ON the RSID feature as shown in this example. The next video, below, is a demonstration on how to set the Reed-Solomon Identification (RSID) feature in Ham Radio Deluxe’s Digital Master 780 module (HRD DM780). To aid in your detection of what mode is being used, there is a feature of many digital-mode software implementation suites: the RSID. After getting used to the sound and look of Olivia in the waterfall, though, it becomes easier to identify the format when you encounter it. These different choices in bandwidth and tone settings can cause some confusion and problems–so many formats and so many other digital modes can make it difficult to figure out which mode you are seeing and hearing. However, the 32/1000 and 16/1000 configurations are popular in some areas of the world (Europe) and on certain bands. Some even use 16/2000 for series emergency communication. That would translate to the 14.0729 CENTER frequency. If your software is set to show OFFSET, then you might, for example, set your radio’s dial frequency to 14.0714, and place the center of your waterfall cursor to 1500 (1500 Hz). If your software’s waterfall shows the frequency, then you simply place the cursor so that its center is right on the center frequency listed, above. The cursor is what you use to set the transceiver’s frequency on the waterfall. Q: What’s a ‘CENTER’ Frequency? Is That Where I Set My Radio’s Dial?įor those new to waterfalls: the CENTER frequency is the CENTER of the cursor shown by common software. 16 tones in 250 Hz is our common calling-frequency configuration, which we use lower down in the Twenty-Meter band, with a center frequency of 14.0729 MHz. One reason for this is that there are configurations that use much less bandwidth than 1000 Hz. Yet, Olivia is a good compromise that delivers a lot. One other mode is better than Olivia for keyboard-to-keyboard comms under difficult conditions: MT63. Olivia is useful for emergency communications, unlike JT65A or the popular FT8. Olivia is even capable when the signal is affected by auroral conditions (including the Sporadic-E Auroral Mode, where signals are refracted off of the highly-energized E-region in which the Aurora is active).Ĭurrently, the only other digital modes that match or exceed Olivia in their sensitivity are some of the modes designed by Joe Taylor as implemented in the WSJT programs, including FT8, JT65A, and JT65-HF–each of which are certainly limited in usage and definitely not able to provide true conversation capabilities. Olivia decodes well under other conditions that are a complex mix of atmospheric noise, signal fading (QSB), interference (QRM), polar flutter caused by a radio signal traversing a polar path. That means that Olivia is decoded when the amplitude of the noise is slightly over three times that of the digital signal! The Olivia-modulated radio signals are decoded even when it is ten to fourteen dB below the noise floor. By difficult, we are talking significant phase distortions and low signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) plus multipath propagation effects. In 2005, SP9VRC, Pawel Jalocha, released to the world a mode that he developed starting in 2003 to overcome difficult radio signal propagation conditions on the shortwave (high-frequency, or HF) bands. More details about the mode are in the files section of this website. More narrow-bandwidth settings are used in a lower subband in the digital slice of Twenty Meters. This video captures a few moments of two-way conversation on the Twenty-Meter band, up in the sub-band where 1000-Hz digital modes are commonplace. If you are interested in more than a logbook QSO (such as is typical with FT8 and other propagation-checking modes) but want to chat with other hams around the world using digital modes, consider Olivia as one option. The Olivia digital mode on HF radio is a mode capable of two-way chat (QSO) communication (keyboard to keyboard, like RTTY) over long-distance shortwave (HF) ionospheric propagation paths, especially over polar regions.
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