Your software has access to the entire transceiver pass band -- it can hear what you would QRM if you transmitted. If there is no signal within the transceiver pass band, then the range of frequencies on which you will transmit is clear, and you can transmit with confidence that you aren't QRMing an ongoing QSO.
73, Dave, AA6YQ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "expeditionradio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Bill Turner <dezrat@> wrote: > > > > ORIGINAL MESSAGE: > > > > At 01:41 AM 6/22/2006, expeditionradio wrote: > > > > >I can sit here and decode and participate in an Olivia 500/16 > > >QSO on 20meters that I cannot hear by ear and I cannot see any signal > > >on the waterfall. Is that frequency "busy"? > > > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > > > Of course it is "busy". If software can find a signal, that channel > > is busy. Whether you can hear it by ear is irrelevant. > > > > Bill, W6WRT > > > > Hi Bill, > > If my "software" isn't within 100Hz of the signal, I can't decode it, > so I don't know it is there. Is the frequency still busy? > > Bonnie KQ6XA > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/ELTolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/