has anyone tryied to push the max tones to 256, like 2000/256? What is the SNR on that I wonder? I saw on FLDigi you can do this.
K5WGM --- On Fri, 11/27/09, Tim N9PUZ <tim.n9...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Tim N9PUZ <tim.n9...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [digitalradio] NEWBIE OLIVIA QUESTION To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, November 27, 2009, 11:12 PM Are there common places on each band to look for Olivia QSO's? Tim, N9PUZ Tony wrote: > > > Hello George, > > It's best to adjust Olivia to suit the conditions at hand. > Sensitivity goes up as you increase the number of tones... > > Mode Minimum SNR > > Olivia 500/64...... ......... .....-19db > Olivia 500/32...... ......... .....-17db > Olivia 500/16...... ......... .....-14db > Olivia 500/8....... ......... ......-12db > Olivia 500/4....... ......... ......-10db > > The word-per-minute rate will become slower as the tones are increased, > but as you can see, there's a lot to be gained by going a bit slow when > signals are weak. The most common mode is 500/16. > > Hope this helps. > > Tony -K2MO > > > > BE DOING SOME READING UP ON THE 'OLIVIA MODE' I HEAR IT ON 17M > SOMEWHAT . MY QUESTION IS WHAT MODE IS USED THE MOST ? LIKE 16/500 ? OR > DO YOU CHANGE IT IT UP AND DOWN IN DIFFERENT BANDS? > > THANK YOU AC5JV,GEORGE > > > > > > >