Radio

Well I have the day off . So I might come up on the 160 metre coffee club, my antenna “tunes” but that doesn’t really mean too much it may tune but who knows if it will radiate, most likely not to be honest.

But at least I can hear the coffee club net, I don’t know if I will jump on or not. I find it a little nervous, coming up on a new net. Especially something like this.

To be honest it is quite noisy, though the removal of the large amount of switching power supplies here made it somewhat better. I may have a scan round on 20 metres a bit later on in the day and see if I can work anything would be a bit of fun.

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One of the big issues with technology like D-Star and the AOR ARD9000. Is that both of them use the propraitary AMBE codec.

To me the issue here is that with a closed codec, once can’t use the advances in computing power to do a lot of the hard work in software. Instead one has to buy expensive hardware (not to knock hardware, I still prefer hardware musical synthesizers.)

There appears to be one free codec that is called Speex, now to work out how to do the rest.

Don’t know if I’m out of my depth, anyway it will be fun trying.

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