[Elecraft] Re: KX1 PSK31? [how about FSK?]

[Julian, G4ILO]

FSK may be easier to do technically, but what's the point if you can't 
make any contacts?

I think it needs to do PSK. There isn't enough MFSK activity. And the 
trouble with RTTY is, weak QRP signals aren't as copyable as MFSK and 
PSK signals, and just to compound it, many of those who operate RTTY use 
high power so you can hear them but they can't hear you, and your little 
signal will get swamped by their big ones.

Only PSK has the high enough activity levels to guarantee that, if the 
band's open, there will be some activity, and you have a good chance of 
actually working the people you hear.
-- 
Julian, G4ILO (RSGB, ARRL)
G4ILO's Shack: http://www.tech-pro.net/g4ilo

Leigh L Klotz, Jr." <Leigh at WA5ZNU.org> wrote:

I would like to see MFSK rather than RTTY. I think a PIC-based decoder 
for MFSK, or a Pocket PC or Palm one, would certainly be within the CPU 
bounds.