> John, > > Is the reason for wanting to operate AMTOR just for the novelty of an > old mode? I could understand using it if it was possible to do it as a > sound card mode at a level comparable to hardware modems.
Is the reason for operating Olivia, Contesta, Domino, MT-63, etc, for the novelty of operating yet another new mode? > > When Pactor came into use in the late 1980's, AMTOR use was drastically > curtailed since Pactor was a much better mode in terms of weak signal > and not falsing characters. Then when the sound card modes came into use > in the late 1990's, it seemed like Pactor use was curtailed for casual > contacts since the sound card modes were able to work well into the > noise, similar to (and sometimes even better than) CW which made it > possible to have keyboard chats even under some difficult condx. No, Pactor and Amtor were "curtailed" because they were either totally free or very cheap at the most. I always thought the "linked modes" were a lot of fun, especially Clover. 73 have fun, Buddy WB4M Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
