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DOCUMENTATION FOR "INTMOD,Vers.6.0"
This program had it origins in a file put up on GEnie in 1986 by
David Kozinn. It was titled "INTERMOD.BAS" and was file no. 719.
Since then several of us in the SouthEast who have some technical
responsibility for 2 meter Amateur Radio repeaters, have found that
original program to be functional, but far too tedious for much
practical utilization.
We began modifying it, with the goal of making it more useful for
"real world" applications. Specifically, when your local repeater
is overwhelmed with interference that seems to be of the intermod-
ulation type, your first need is to identify the other signals that
are mixing to cause your problems. Instead of taking shots blind-
folded, as it were, guessing who or what other signals MIGHT be
involved - and then examining the results to find those calculated
results CLOSE to your repeater input, then do a series of "cut and
try" changes - there HAD TO BE a better way!!!!
The first changes were made by WD4HLZ, J. G. Walker, to allow the
user to limit the portion of spectrum from which any calculated
results would be reported to the user. This saves printer paper
among other things. But the user is still having to make shrewd
(hopefully) guesses as to the possible mixing stations. This isn't
too hard to do for PART of the input - at least one signal is LIKELY
to be your own repeater output. But one's imagination (and the sky)
is the limit for the remaining inputs.
Through collaboration between NG4S, Tommy Walker and myself, W4PFZ,
Olin McDaniel - we added what we feel is the much needed feature.
The program will "back calculate" FROM the Intermod product (which
is our interfering signal) and one or two known or PROBABLE inputs,
to give you the other possible signals. Among these you may find
the culprit you seek. Only then can you sensibly determine the
proper cure; filters and where to install them, etc.
In order to minimize the useless results, our revision suppresses
all negative numbers - I've never encountered any rf signals on a
negative frequency! But we did not attempt to clean up the original
section which still reports negative values. (Left enough for more
revisions.)
To access the new "back calculation" feature, choose option 2 from
the opening menu. (With either the original approach, option 1, or
this new option, you may choose either to direct the answers to the
screen or to the printer. Incidentally the original option 1 allows
many, many guesses to be inputted on any run. But it still only
examines a maximum of 3 at a time, for either 3rd order or 5th order
solutions.) Option 2 also only considers a maximum of 3 input
signals, but it utilizes a total of 80 different possibilities for
combining and forming the offending interfering signal. As far as
we can determine, these are FINALLY all the possibilities and hope-
fully are all valid. (Admittedly many of these 5th order combin-
ations require some massive signal levels to reasonably expect any
troublesome mixing, but perhaps they do exist some places out
there.)
We hope that by providing this upgraded program, it will assist
cleaning up some of the pollution within the r.f. spectrum. Any
feedback will be welcomed. Send to GEnie address: O.MCDANIEL