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- DOCUMENTATION FOR "INTMOD,Vers.6.0"
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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!!!!
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.)
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- 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.)
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- 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
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