Last night I monitored a number of 80 meter contacts. There was some MFSK16 but was very weak and I found it difficult to print well. The Olivia stations were much stronger and did print quite well and were running 500/8. However, the MFSK16 is much narrower in terms of BW and that should be considered but if you can not make the contact with a given mode, even if it is much faster, then a slower mode still is better. In general though, I find the Olivia modes to be too slow for moderately competent keyboard speed. The faster Olivia modes require too high a baud rate to be practical under typical 80 meter conditions based on my past experience.
73, Rick, KV9U John Bradley wrote: > huge difference between MFSK and Olivia, especially on the lower > bands...... If you want to set up a sked sor some weeknight we can > fool around with this on 80M.. I'm good all next week, with the > exception of Tuesday .... search and rescue exercise. > > John > VE5MU 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/
