> " Moving traffic " IS NOT what 99% of hams want to do on > 20 meters working > DX IS. > And this band is filled with stations doing just that.
I think you are quit right, Bruce, and the Winlink 2000 network is probably currently the most efficient say of "moving traffic", but that interests less than 1% of the licensed hams in the US. A single 3 KHz-wide Pactor-3 channel can, under average good conditions, process about 400 wpm per minute, and this assumes the channel is busy all the time. In comparison, a single 3 KHz-wide "channel" can accomodate 30 PSK63 stations, all simultaneously sending traffic at 100 wpm, for a total of about 3000 wpm. Since the traffic on PSK63 can be passed in parallel, instead of serially, as on the Pactor-3 channel, the narrowband modes are obviously more efficient overall than a sngle Pactor-3 channel. 73, Skip KH6TY http://kh6ty.home.comcast.net
