Would POCSAG be useful in place of FEC for short data exchanges ?  de nu5d

Dan Smith wrote:
>> So am I right in my understanding that a DStar 2m radio (such as
>> IC-V82 + UT-118) will send (or can be made to send) unadulterated
>> data over the voice+data channel?
>>     
>
> Yes*.
>
> The footnote being that you can't send any byte sequence.  Since the
> radios use XON/XOFF flow control, those values are obviously out.
> Some of the radios use the data port for programming as well, so there
> are some escape sequences that you can't send.  D-RATS uses yenc-style
> escaping to only avoid the specific banned values without having to
> encode the rest.
>
>   
>

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