>Why do the Pactor modes work so well? They have the same bandwidth, >power, and fairly similar coding to sound card modes. Is their coding >something that can not be implemented on current sound cards in terms of >the modulation? > >P2 is a variable DPSK mode and P3 is OFDM are they not? > >73, > >Rick, KV9U
I am not sure I quite follow you Rick, I am not sure that the Pactor modes have any higher throughput vs. s/n ratio than the sound card modes. I have not performed the testing myself, but my gut tells me that the PACTOR modes require a fairly high S/N ratio to move data at their highest rates. I think the only limitation in implementing these modes in the Windows environment is timing. The other limiting factor is licensing. 73, Mark N5RFX 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/
