[RTTY] If you care about CW and RTTY - time is of the essence

[Michael Adams]

While there's no doubt that fast data would help Winlink, there are at least two other groups that perceive a benefit:

1.  Emcomm folks chimed in during the initial comment period on interoperability grounds.  For example, MARS now almost exclusively uses an older MIL-STD mode that is 2.8kHz wide and works very well at speeds faster than US amateurs are authorized for; the change is partly for performance reasons, and partly because the mode is copyable on "green radios" unlike most amateur modes.

2. Don't I remember seeing a couple of mode variations in fldigi that aren't legal on HF in the US due to symbol rate issues?  I can see some folks getting excited about experimenting with fast, narrow data...and I think one or two of them chimed in during the first comment period.

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Michael Adams | mda at n1en.org

-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jeff AC0C
Sent: Monday, 8 August, 2016 12:38
To: RTTY at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] If you care about CW and RTTY - time is of the essence

Maybe it's my paranoia or imagination, but it seems to me that guys supporting 11708 are generally very careful to avoid saying "it would be a huge boom for email-via-HF!"

The fact is the R&D for weak signal or low power work is all narrow band. 
The drivers for something wider outside of the voice segment seems only to be Pactor-4 and it's hand-in-hand use as a higher speed enabler to more email-via-HF on the bands.

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