jgorman01 wrote: > Yea, but that 100 word message could have been sent in about 3 minutes > using 30 wpm CW. I've done both, and the SSB'ers have a hard time > understanding that CW is that much faster than voice. Almost what you > quote for the 300 baud text data, and in a much smaller bandwidth. > > Also, using your info, a 300 baud modem can send 100 words in 3 > minutes, while a 2400 baud modem can do it in one minute. That's > about a 3:1 ratio. Yet I suspect the bandwidth will be 4 to 5 times > as much and maybe 8 times as much, i.e. 2400 baud divided by 300 baud. > > I'm not sure the tradeoff's are good ones in a shared spectrum > environment where people are competing for space. > > Jim > WA0LYK
Actually, the average rate of speech is 120WPM. A trained speaker may communicate even more quickly. Sending is not the challenge, the choice of reception is. If we insist upon writing down the spoken word then we slow things down considerably, but the same is true of CW. Recording the spoken words would mean that a 100 word message would be transmitted *and* received in less than 1 minute. Speech recognition is one means by which the speed of verbal transmission and written reception may be increased but accuracy and speed (especially with the addition of noise and different speakers) has proved challenging. Improving the written capture of speech modes: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~leed/Notetaking.htm The advantage of CW is that once the message, originally verbal or written/printed/E-mail has been manually digitized (keyboard CW) and sent it may be electronically decoded and printed somewhat quickly and accurately. The same is true of other keyboard modes Moving text files is an even more efficient mode if one is not engaged in a semi-realtime keyboard to keyboard conversation. 73, doc KD4E 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/