I subscribe to an Oregon AREA/RACES yahoo-email list, where one of the
members recently posted this article:
Modulation modes of amateur radio
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One of the email lists I am subscribed to has a member who is writing
for the 2010 ARRL Handbook. Here is a link to what he is writing about
for that issue. Another member of the same list is working on another
part of that issue. It looks like the 2010 ARRL Handbook will be very
different from recent issues. I have purchased a number of the ARRL
Handbook since I started in this hobby in the '60s, the 2010 issue will
be my next one.
See you Saturday,
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
This sounded interesting, and having some more up-to-date information on
digital modes in the public-facing manuals would certainly be good. I
personally applaud the effort. So I checked out the web site. Of key
interest to me was the author's use of Google hits related to protocols
as a relative indicator of the popularity of a given digital mode.
Frankly, I find this approach to be rather flawed, and sent a polite
email to that effect to the author, Alan/N1AL. I also suggested that
while the "HF Digital Handbook" is a useful reference (he refers to it
on his web page), it is already somewhat out of date, and does not even
mention some of the software most widely used now.
I realized that I do not know of another way to garner more accurate
information. I offered criticism, but did not suggest any replacement
solution to the problem. So ... I thought I would pose this question to
the members of this list: how CAN we tell which digital modes are
actually more popularly used? Also, what would we like to have said in
a future ARRL Handbook about current software, band usage, supposed
"misappropriation" of bands/resources (winmail), the future of
proprietary hardware digital comm solutions, prospects for emerging
protocols, etc. ? If you have any ideas about this, I would love to
hear them. Maybe you would like to pass them on to Alan as well.
- Doug / KE7SEI
