I have repeatedly used 40m cw @15wpm and 50mw to work out 700miles with a 1/4 wave vertical. That works out to @75miles at his 45microwatt level. And his through put is only @6baud? Hmmm.... I admire his effort, but I'm not so sure this is an improved mode.
Would be interested in others' opinions after watching the video that is available via the URL given in the comment by W1KU above: https://www.qsl.net/yo4tnv/HamSoftware/DIGITAL/LongChat/chirp.mp4 This video shows an Icom 7300 set to 50.0 MHz and with mode D-LSB, with the signal bandwidth occupying equal space below and above 50.0. Doesn't quite make sense, why would someone show tests that put half their bandwidth outside the lower band limit? Regardless, I'm glad to hear someone is working on advancing digital in new ways. I'm all for anything that goes further with less power (as long as it doesn't use up a whole voice channel though)
There is no way of setting anything from in the program, he appears to be trying to get the program to do the settings by you picking the right radio and as hams use so many different radios and not everyone has a super duper SDR rig then it makes the program unusable
This guy seems to be totally unaware of any other data mode programs and for some weird reason has decided to use LSB instead of USB .As for using 50.00 and being out of band is not a good start
Yes, yet another digital mod.. YADM. Here in the USA(or FCC territory) 50.0000 to 50.100 is CW only, no other if or buts. The only thing allowed there is CW QSO or CW beacons.
Tend to agree with you. Of course the "experimental" aspect of the hobby comes into play but when you have so many digital modes available does that not tend to spread the activity out in a shotgun pattern lacking focus on just a few digital modes. Maybe not the best example but if you had only 10 stations operating on 10 different digital modes...who would they talk to?
20m has been so open lately an Ant could fart and be heard around the world. I use QRP and many days have excellent to outstanding results on less than 2W. For a 50mw rig to simply be heard somewhere is no big feat. It's all propagation and timing.
It's like Repeaters. At first there were a few and operated by groups of hams who got together to form an association to spread out the costs. Since every Tom, Dick, and Harry is capable of putting up a repeater (and has ); the number of repeaters on the air has exploded. Even with the expanded number of Techs, Repeaters have all but gone silent. Coincidence? I think not.
I'm hoping TA2STO will provide a git repo. In the video's demonstration, the mode could be great for "ham radio of things" micropower sensors, etc. And if nothing else, I could roll propagation beacons to help prove the mode on various bands.
