For TR CW users who use the "other" logger for SSB, this is a copy of my
Post to the "other" Reflector.
One of my goals has always been to eventually make full callsign.wav files
available to mute hams if desired.
A novel idea just came to mind, which may appeal to those without
high-quality recording capabilities. I'll probably get Flamed on this
one, but that's nothing new :-)
But to put things in perspective, I'm sure there are many CW ops who once
claimed they would never surrender their own personal "fist" to computer
generated CW. Many SSBers will probably shudder at the thought of using
someone else's voice during a contest.
However...
For those of us embarking upon the laborious task of pre-recording full
callsign.wav files & associated SSB Message stuff, I'm thinking now about
possibly making my eventual SS .wav files available even to non-mute
hams. At 22KHz, 16bit mono, an individual .wav file will run somewhere
between 75KB and 100KB depending upon callsign length (shorter if a faster
speech rate and short Vanity callsigns). Being conservative, 7,000 .wav
files times 90KB each will be about 640MB which will just fit onto a
CD-ROM (if I did the math correctly :-)
Due to the monster total file size, an online type Repository would not be
very practical. However, if others were interested in doing the same
thing with their pre-recorded files, some samples could be available on a
webpage for different "voices" available. Maybe some *reasonable* fee for
CD distribution of the files would be in order to those interested in a
particular "voice" package to use, as well as any custom
addition/recording of the end-user's callsign to be included with the
batch of files.
Just some thoughts that came to mind today as a result of several personal
direct emails received.
73...
Rick, K6VVA
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