All, Thanks to all who participated in the Contestia tests this evening. It certainly seems to have an advantage over MT63 in terms of sensitivity. Patrick Lindecker pointed out the mean-to-peak power ratio differences between the two and is no doubt the reason why Contestia is the more effective mode.
Contestia does about 95 words-per-minute in the 16/1K configuration so it's somewhat slower than MT63. Turn around time is the same though since MT63 needs 12 seconds to flush the Tx buffer; Contestia has no latency to speak of. There was no QRM during the on-air tests so it's hard to say if it can resist interference as well as MT63. Being an MFSK mode, it will most likely tolerate multi-path and other ionospheric distortion well. In terms of high-speed chat modes, Contestia 16/1K is most likely one of the best configurations. More to come... Tony -K2MO
