I really like this idea Dave. It's been a long time coming, especially with
most contests not allowing self-spotting (on SSB-no need on CW/RBN).(ARRL
excepted)
This would have a nice side benefit I just thought of !
All those wide splattery signals with their mic gains set to "11" (Spinal
Tap) and sounding like mush would not get spotted ( or spotted nearly as
often)_until they cleaned up their audio to be intelligible !
Win-Win!
Bring it on.
Mike VE9AA "NB"
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I can think of at least two possible paths forward.
(1) Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Google's Assistant (there are others)
are very good at understanding what I say, as well as what visitors with
various accents say. With proper legal rights to one of these, or to a
similar program, probably little new technology is needed for an SSB RBN
although development would be non-trivial and might be limited to use of an
approved list of phonetics.
(2) Digital voice -- which is more spectrum efficient and clearer -- might
be easier to decode for RBN purposes.
73, Dave K3ZJ
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Mike - Keswick Ridge, NB, Canada
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