Re: [digitalradio] Shameless promotion of FAE 400

2007-12-31 Thread Rick
Hi Jack, In the later part of the message I mentioned that with the last station, we tried another mode and I suggested DEX 4 (Domino EX 4 baud) which we went to as a comparison. It is quite slow compared to the speed of FAE 400 but it performed moderately well but with some hits on my end.

Re: [digitalradio] Shameless promotion of FAE 400

2007-12-31 Thread Rick
Are you saying that DEX works better than other modes? Or about the same? I did quite a bit of NVIS testing of DEX/FEC11 and other speeds too as my hope was that this would work better than any other sound card mode. But it just did not work out that way as we found other modes to work about

[digitalradio] Shameless promotion of FAE 400

2007-12-30 Thread Rick
I had an FAE 400 QSO (barely) with a station on 20 meters earlier today. We did eventually lose the link, but there were times that we got some reasonable throughput. I increased power to about 50 watts and was able to get through to his end fairly well for much of the time (about 40 wpm). I