As Bill Tippett observes, many of the digital modes won't cut
it in the QSB/QRM/QRN/weak-signal/short-opening environment of 160.
And there isn't enough time in life to accept QRSS,
as Bill also observed.
A year ago, I raised the psk31 question..and I raise it again...
Is it fast enough, stable enough, phase noise tolerant enough, to be
of use on topband? Surely casual psk'ers can't play. qrp & small
antennas won't prove squat. We need guys with big antennas, full power,
and phase-noise clean tx's to explore the mode. Will phase anomalies in
the auroral zone wipe it out, or just limit it a bit? Unexplored.
As for computers, waterfalls & cet.... detection is detection.
(with acknowledgement of the vision-impaired.)
In my log, I hear it, I confirm it, I hear it confirmed, and then I log it.
But I'm not throwing out technology while doing so...it makes no sense.
No more than hoping for a random fish to show up in the 90 second
opening to JA. Can you say Poisson? (Go K1ZM!)
Statistically yours,
n2ea
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