ZL3IN Conversation Video
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.
Building and Operating a Transmitter from the Roaring 20s
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
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.