There is a lot of room in our hobby for many niche interests and points of view. I became a Ham in the late 1950s and while I started out on AM, I switched to SSB fairly soon after. I have always liked communications quality audio for voice communications. When I discovered a whole subculture of Hams interested in Extended SSB, I had trouble understanding why. I listen to some people with carefully adjusted equalizers that sound like they are transmitting from their bathroom, what with echos etc. But then I realized that as long as they don't hog the bandwidth when a band is busy, there is nothing wrong with them wanting something more than communications quality.
I just expect them to respect my preference for narrower audio response over RF. I am thinking D-Star will probably not work out for John, and he'll decide to move on to other parts of Ham radio. Or he'll get involved in experimentation with other types of digital radio that may involve other vocoders and different design parameters (I wonder what Codec2 sounds like?). And if we all live long enough, we will probably see other DV standards evolve. I like to think that if we left the planet and came back in 50 years, the vast majority of Ham transmissions will be some form of digital. It's inevitable. For John's sake, let's hope he has some audio quality choices. In the meantime, I like D-Star audio just fine, since I'm able to understand what everyone is saying. Jim - K6JM ----- Original Message ----- From: n2gyn To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 3:19 PM Subject: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Bit Rate? It's NOT a microphone issue. It's the small bit processing. I have been in Pro sound for most of my life. Their is NO WAY to get any quality at 8bit. This is unexceptionable to me! I rather listen to all the QRM and QRN in the world with analog. I am very surprise that their are not more people that feel this way. The bit rate has to be at lest 28bit to starting sounding acceptable. John
