There are advantages to digital voice, but for Amateur Band use, I don't
think we are "there yet". When we see an 'open source' digital voice
mode that is published and can be implemented by any amateur, then I may
change my position, but that is not the situation today. I do not
believe that proprietary modes of any sort should be permitted on the
ham bands.
One characteristic of digital streaming 'anything' is that if the signal
'loses sync', things go to pot, and you have to wait until it syncs up
again. With fading on an analog signal, you can usually fill in the
gaps, but with digital, it is all or nothing. When it is "all", it is
great, but the gaps are annoying - plus the quality is determined by the
bit rate in the encoding/decoding algorithms.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 9/17/2015 11:16 PM, Sandy wrote:
I could not agree more Don! There isn't much advantage for amateur
radio to digital voice operations. Just another "kink in the wire"!
No advantage at all. All the digital voice stuff I have heard sounds
terrible at times. Motorola's system (proprietary no doubt!) can sound
absolutely awful when signal conditions are bad.
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