> Is it just a ploy to usurp the amateur bands for commercial
> purposes?
Yes - for the rich yachtsmen who buy ham tickets and then use the
Winlink/Sailmail stuff in the amateur bands rather than pay for
expensive maritime data service.
> What the hell is the need for wideband data in the amateur radio
> bands?
There is none except to enrich certain interests and sell hardware
for a German company.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 3/4/2014 4:12 PM, Charlie Cunningham wrote:
What the hell is the need for wideband data in the amateur radio bands? Is
it just a ploy to usurp the amateur bands for commercial purposes? And
there's a heck of a lot more band width available at VHF and UHF! Why
wideband at HF?? Makes no sense to me!
??
Charlie, K4OTV
-----Original Message-----
From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Joe
Subich, W4TV
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 3:38 PM
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL Board Requests Member Comments About Digital
Modes
I'm sure there are some military/commercial systems that will do it
but I don't believe that even the Flex are clean enough to handle
the really wide band commercial data modulations.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 3/4/2014 11:30 AM, Mike Waters wrote:
FWIW, I believe such transceivers do exist. Don't the Flex SDRs have that
capability?
... as if there are any amateur transceivers capable of operating with
data bandwidth greater than 2.8 KHz.
_________________
Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
_________________
Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
_________________
Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
|