Voice for emergency comms is even less effective as CW for emergency comms, and fails under a lot less rigorous conditions.
PSK, and the other digital modes can provide comms in conditions where voice cannot work, and at a much higher speed. PLUS, at the end, you end up with a printed message rather than some scrawled message pad. For those of us who have labored painfully copying voice emergency traffic, how sweet it would be to use a digital mode, and end up with a forwardable hard copy. Have u a race anytime, Bill John VE5MU >The main question is whether PSK 31 >is a worthy mode for emergency use? *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** Unless there are some truly unusual circumstances, the best mode for emergencies is voice. Very little emergency traffic is long distance, weak signal communications. 1000 mile or less QSOs are nearly always enough and 100 watts and a dipole on 20/40/80 will do the trick. Bill, W6WRT [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/ELTolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/ <*> 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/
