Hey Dave! Would it then be a fair assumption that you would not care for the likes of ALE, DRM, PACTOR, Digi SSTV, Analog SSTV, the new sparky offering called WINMOR, ALE400 - they're pretty much a "Closed Club", or "Private Channel" affair, wouldn't you say? I think there's some others, but suffice it to say...... OH! I just remembered one candidate - DSTAR! The 145.350 Repeater in Cincinnati went DSTAR and poof! Now many ops are "odd man out."
Howard W6IDS Richmond, IN EM79NV ----- Original Message ----- From: "kb3fxi" <kb3...@yahoo.com> To: <digitalradio@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 11:40 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: Performance of modes: weak signal and poor ionospheric conditions I'm pretty darn happy with the performance of Olivia without the added complexity of ARQ and the one on one aspect of the ARQ protocals. I'm not sure about pskmail arq chat mode, but some of the other ARQ protocals I've played with look like a mess when you're a station on the outside looking in... that's something I really never liked about any of the ARQ/handshaking modes. It's like you're turning your little channel into a private line. FLDIGI has the WRAP checksum feature which allows an unlimited number of receiving stations to confirm 100% from a single uninterrupted transmission. And stations that don't have WRAP get to see the message too. -Dave, KB3FXI <SNIP> <SNIP>
