I just had a pleasant across town chat with Peter, VK5APR on 2M FreeDV. We used SSB radios. Unlike HF no fading ...... so FreeDV 1600 worked really well and was preferable to SSB due to the lack of background noise. It also operated noise free at 500mW with a SNR of 10dB. SSB was hard to read at the same power due to the channel noise, and even at 50W the channel noise was still there.
Interesting to contrast with HF. Anyway, I'll be working up some FreeDV VHF modes over the next few months. One that will work with standard FM radios (even $40 HTs no data port rqd), and another that will outperform FM and 1st generation DV systems by 10dB. Cheers, David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freetel-codec2 mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2
