Hi Bruce, Speaking of W1AW, do you think that something even more frequent than the existing Activity Day event would be useful? (For example, a weekly net or other meetup (e.g. on Zoom) that lasts an hour or two.) I know that the HF D-Star people do that every weekend and cycle through each of the HF bands to see what works best for people on that particular day.
Thanks, -Mooneer K6AQ On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 7:22 AM Bruce MacKinnon <br...@mackinnon.com> wrote: > Hi Mooneer: > > I find the activity days to be very helpful. I am working on my own > implementation of the CODECs and modems. This work is made much easier > (and more satisfying) when you have real activity impacted by real noise to > test receivers/decoders. Having a time/place where there is a higher > probability of hearing a transmission is nice. > > This analogy isn’t perfect, but something to consider. In the US we have > the daily W1AW bulletins in a variety of modes (CW, RTTY, PSK31, MFSK16, > etc.) on a lot of bands. This is a great resource for people > learning/testing the modes that are supported. I’m not trying to be > negative about these modes, but they aren’t exactly the leading edge of the > radio hobby. It would be very cool if there were similar scheduled > bulletins using a wider range of modern modulations/encodings for people > who are developing systems. > > Other similarly useful resources: WWV for testing AM receivers on HF, > *ECHOTEST* on the EchoLink system and PARROT on the DMR system. > > Bruce KC1FSZ > > > On May 6, 2024, at 9:02 PM, Mooneer Salem <moon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I wanted to get some feedback about our current monthly Activity Day > weekend events: > > > > 1. Are they helpful at all for encouraging your own usage of FreeDV? > > 2. Are there any changes you'd like for them? (i.e. changing how often > they occur) > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Mooneer K6AQ > > _______________________________________________ > > Freetel-codec2 mailing list > > Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freetel-codec2 mailing list > Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2 >
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