I have been lobbying the WinLink team to do this for years, without 
success. You are more than welcome to try, Jose.

   73,

      Dave, AA6YQ

--- In [email protected], "Jose A. Amador" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> 
> Dave Bernstein wrote:
> 
> > As is often the case in engineering, Jose, perfect is the enemy 
of 
> > good. What Rick KN6KB discovered while developing SCAMP's busy 
> > detector was that he could detect CW, PSK, Pactor, and SSB at an 
~80% 
> > confidence level without enormous difficulty. SCAMP beta testers 
were 
> > amazed by the effectiveness of this first iteration.
> > 
> > Pushing the confidence level from 80% to 100%, however, would 
take 
> > years -- if its even possible. But a busy detector that works 80% 
of 
> > the time would cut QRM from unattended automated stations (like 
> > WinLink PMBOs) by a factor of 5! 
> > 
> > Your comment that "many think it is simpler than it really is to 
do 
> > it WELL" is frankly moot; Rick demonstrated two years ago that 
useful 
> > busy frequency detection was implementable on a PC and soundcard.
> > 
> >     73,
> > 
> >        Dave, AA6YQ
> 
> I understand that 80% is fairly good. Hope the long standing 
> anti-automatic stations lobby sees it as acceptable as well.
> 
> What is seemingly left, then, is to simply push the busy detector 
into 
> practice and 24/7 service.
> 
> Who will get the task done?
> 
> 73, Jose
> 
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