The WAV format isn't significant for interoperability purposes. It's just a way of formatting input and output to/from the sound card in order to get it to work as a modem. This needs to be done without using a compressed audio format which would degrade the signal to noise ratio on send and recieve. Anyone is free to use any suitable format on any platform. Its the audio into and out of the radio that really counts - that's all analogue and a subset of DRM.
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Darren, G0HWW . On 12 Jan 2006, at 04:58, kd4e wrote: Any idea why they chose the WAV file format? Is it, and the MS version of windows, more a matter of familiarity or is the WAV file format really the most efficient of the many alternatives? Also, anyone know if there are Linux apps that handle these formats, since an increasing number of Hams are moving to Linux? > Since Andy brought up the subject of Digital SSTV here is a web page that > will explain it better than I can. > http://web.aanet.com.au/betula/digital.htm You will also have to have a > program called Irfanview to view the pictures. > Joe W4JSI -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A blessed New Year to all! Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e 30-70% Off Christian Books, CD's, DVD's, etc. http://edenacres.bibleseven.com/b2i/b2i-index.html |_|___|_| | | & | | {| /\ {| / \ {| / \ {| / @ \ {| | |~_|~~~~| | -| | | ============\ # http://bibleseven.com/kd4e.html KD4E ===================================== West Central Florida /\ /\ ?(~~~{ @ @ } Sent from ( * Puppy Linux ( ) http://www.goosee.com/puppy ~~~~~~~~~ / / / / ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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