> I wonder how many people bother to think about why PSK250 is an > especially bad protocol to use on HF and what might be a better > choice? There are many hams who don't really understand or realize > just how the ionosphere mangles the signal and which types of signals > will perform better under different propagation conditions. Maybe > after learning that the pskmail sysops will change their operating > practices.
This is agressive text, and it shows the author has no clue as to what we are doing with pskmail... We have 5 years experience with this, and we would not be using PSK250 if it did not work... When it works it is 4x faster than any other mode. In those cases where it does not work we are using THOR22 or MFSK32, depending on band condx. Actually, we use PSK250, PSK125, THOR22, THOR11, THOR8, MFSK32, MFSK16. We can switch modes during a session. By using RSID on the servers (using fldigi-3.13) the mode is no issue anymore.... Still PSK250 Is used 90% of the time... 73, Rein PA0R -- http://pa0r.blogspirit.com
