Here is my combination rant/contribution to thread drift... I recently monitored an exchange on my company's technical email list relating to a guy who had set up an ISDN codec system for a broadcast remote. The question was, "how do I get rid of the delay?" I wanted to start acting like the dog on Family Guy when one of the humans does something really stupid to him, "what the hell Peter, what the hell!" But I contained myself. Yes, I have read Shannon, Hartley, Viterbi and a bunch of other people's stuff that were/are way smarter than me.
Bottom line here is this, my stuff, the channels I am allowed to occupy and most if not all of my equipment is gona' be ANALOG for a damn long time. Don't even try to sell me that crap and don't get it within 20 kHz of the frequencies I am using. After you pull my lifeless, charred body off of my equipment, you can do whatever the hell you want, I wont care anymore. Digital cellphones, digital broadcasting both radio and TV and digital whatever else for the sake of going digital is not about getting the message through cleaner and farther. It should be but its not. I get a reminder of that whenever I talk on my digital cellphone. What crap! There are large companies here in So Cal that consider things like Nextel walkie talkie an integral part of their emergency restoration plan. There is nothing funnier than to be in a conference room with a bunch of execs trying to talk to each other on their PTT cellphones and thinking that its great. Then there was the non-english speaking plumber crew we had to my house not long ago. They had Nextels, one guy was under my house, almost underground, right up against my foundation, trying to talk to the guy working on my kitchen sink, with the radios not much more than 6 feet from each other. The radios were spewing stuff I couldn't understand even if they were speaking english. Obviously, they couldn't understand each other either because they had to resort to screaming through the floor and stomping their feet to communicate. Lets stick with analog and fall back to simplex when we need to. Because the message has to get through the first time! There may not be a second chance. Sorry for the BW. td wb6mie
