I have to agree with Andy. It has the mellower sound due to the wider frequency response, but it has the odd digital sound at times.
For those of you who are active with D-Star, do you find this to be the case, even with the high data rates? I have heard some comments (complaints?) about the 2 meter ICOM digital DV having that robotic artifact to the speech. I wonder if the ESSB folks would tolerate that as a trade off for the moderate bandwidth. By the way, I was talking to a protective services person this past week and he indicated that his organization was quite unimpressed with APCO P-25 equipment. Seems that a basic HT is $1100 and is very, very large compared to older equipment. Also, they apparently lose their paging system if they convert to this type of digital design. He gave me the impression that there was no compact pager receivers that you could carry. Anyone have any knowledge about the relative merits or demerits of P-25 as used by government and commercial users? 73, Rick, KV9U Andrew O'Brien wrote: >AFter having a good QSO on DV and having listened to the audio several >times, I will take back what I said about the audio being "stunning". >It is stunning the first time you hear it , compared to SSB analogue >voice. It is NOT as good as VOIP such as Skype but still quite good. >You can tell Tony sounds a tad like a robot. The "hiss" on Tony's >signal may be his microphone picking up his transmitted audio tones. > >Andy K3UJ > > > > > > > > >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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
