Doc, you said..."Not to discourage innovation but perhaps a very centralized
and unbiased Web page that compares and contrasts all of the modes would assist
Hams in making choices for the best of the myriad choices."
I think that Patrick has a good start with his mode page.
A problem I see is with us (hams) is that we don't really evaluate a mode or
signal's preformace under different conditions and uses...just how "we" use it.
Are we shooting ourselves in the foot here?
I've been trying to get folks to look at modes for 1) intended use, 2) how
error free per intended use, 3) how robuse per intended use, 4) throughput per
intended use.
Perhaps someone could take on capturing reports and monthly asking Patrick to
post them on his web page(s)?
Walt/K5YFW
EXAMPLE
MODE
MFSK16 (click on MFSK16 goes to Patrick's mode description)
Intended Use How Error Free How Hobuse Throughput
Overall Rating
Chat rate 1 - 10 rate 1 - 10 rate 1 - 10
rate 1 - 10
Messaging rate 1 - 10 rate 1 - 10 rate 1 - 10
rate 1 - 10
File Transfer rate 1 - 10 rate 1 - 10 rate 1 - 10
rate 1 - 10
-----Original Message-----
From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 12:53 PM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARQ sound card modes
Joel Kolstad wrote:
> If Pactor, packet Amtor, etc. all died because of the need for a $300 TNC,
> I think amateur radio as a hobby really is dying! $300 in today's money is
> nothing compared to what many amateurs paid for their HF rigs years ago.
Many digital modes have faded due to improved and
more popular modes and the fragmentation of digital
modes & their ops.
Not to discourage innovation but perhaps a very
centralized and unbiased Web page that compares
and contrasts all of the modes would assist Hams
in making choices for the best of the myriad
choices.
That would both promote innovation because developers
will want to be at the top of the list and because
users will flock to the best.
--
Thanks! & 73,
doc, KD4E
... somewhere in FL
URL: bibleseven (dot) com
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