I agree Skip. Recently I used fldigi and PSK250 on HF. After emptying what few macros I had , I was reduced to typing with my two fingers. A rag-chew QSO with something as fast as PSK250 was a waste of effort. By the way, I pass perhaps 1-2 messages per week with WINMOR nowadays. When connecting to a "server" that is set for 1600 Hz rather than the alternative 500 Hz, I rarely notice any better through-put. The wider mode just takes up more spectrum.
Andy K3UK On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 6:17 PM, hteller <[email protected]> wrote: > Brian, > >> I often hear people talking about preserving bandwidth and I wonder why >> that is such a goal? Sometimes increasing bandwidth can improve performance >> to the point where you get all the bits through in a shorter period of time, >> making the channel available to others. Think about spread-spectrum or >> packet radio vs. RTTY for example. > > This the argument that Winlink tried to foist upon everyone over five years > ago when asking for unlimited space. The fallacy of that argument is that > the frequency (or channel) is dominated by one station that keeps the > channel occupied until "its" traffic is passed, whereas, if more stations, > say five, can fit in one of our limited frequency ranges and pass traffic > simultaneously at only 1/5 the rate, the chances of more than one station > _______________________________________________ fldigi-alpha mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fldigi-alpha
