Here's the video of the ZL3IN c2qso.sh contact. Remember, this is just raw UDP packets over the internet, with no error correction, and you're hearing the Codec2 audio just as it was transmitted in the conversation.
Yes, Zilvis, the audio was duplex. With my shell script, if both sides keep 'transmit' on, it will operate duplex.
While codec2 might be useful for general Internet comms in certain circumstances, in general I think the higher bandwidth codecs are a better idea for Echolink, etc. For hams, codec2 will shine in digital voice systems similar to D-star.
Radio was booming in the 1920s: transmitters had started using the pure tone of 'continuous wave' signals, replacing signals sent with sparks, and increasingly selective and sensitive receiver circuits offered greater range seemingly by the month. Amateurs, not yet able to tame their simple transmitters with crystal-controlled oscillators, constructed them on simple wooden boards with heavy wiring and large inductor coils in order to keep heating from causing their signals to drift. These homebrew transmitters were ongoing experiments in electronics and engineering. The position of a coil might increase output power but cause the signal to sound like a buzzsaw. If you could find a higher voltage power supply, that too would raise its power, but the increased currents in the rig would add more drift: if the other guy can't find your signal wandering up and down the band, what use is that extra 3 watts? The 1929 QSO Party Every year the Antique Wireless Association holds a tw
End-fed halfwave antennas are so convenient, especially in rapidly deployed setups, and they're easy to build . But how much energy is lost in the 49:1 transformer that makes it possible? Because I operate mainly QRP, and I'm using a rather large core for 5w, I'm not concerned with losses that appear once the transformer's core reaches the Curie temperature. So I can use a nanoVNA, performing a S21 logmag trace on two cores back-to-back, to see how much power my transformer is eating up on the way to the antenna. I used the Fair-Rite 2643625002 core, inspired by excellent results MM0OPX reports in a generously shared spreadsheet of results. Could I get around 0.5 dB loss from 80m all the way to 10m if I used that core in 21:3 turns ratio? My experience with more donut-shaped ones suggested that such broad-banded performance was a tough order: a 14:2 turns ratio works well on one end of the HF band; 21:3 works well on the other. In the end, Colin's accompanying vi
Simon took me up on my offer in the last post, and after a bit of fiddling, I could hear his codec2-encoded voice reach across the Internet from Crowsnet Pass in Alberta to the Bay of Fundy. Great fun!
Great video! And audio too! Was that full duplex comms?
ReplyDeleteAlmost half step to the next Echolink incarnation (multiplatform, oss) hi
Best 73! Zilvis
Yes, Zilvis, the audio was duplex. With my shell script, if both sides keep 'transmit' on, it will operate duplex.
ReplyDeleteWhile codec2 might be useful for general Internet comms in certain circumstances, in general I think the higher bandwidth codecs are a better idea for Echolink, etc. For hams, codec2 will shine in digital voice systems similar to D-star.