[Lowfer] WSPR QSO Mode

[Bob Raide]

JD;
I can see the WSPR issue has you thinking and studying at a serious level!  
While looking at these various "wisper" modes what about the very simple OPERA 65 mode?  It is so simple and maybe that's it's drawback?
 
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> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 01:06:44 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] WSPR QSO Mode
> 
> >>> Try WSJT7.. It has a WSPR QSO mode..in which you can input various 
> >>> information to be transmitted.
> 
> Yes, I've looked into it a bit and certainly agree that it's more like what 
> I think of as "real" radio communication... although I might quibble 
> slightly about the term "WSPR QSO mode" as the "PR" in WSPR is propagation 
> reporting, an activity essentially contrary to QSOs.
> 
> Probably the thing I have found most frustrating about WSPR is that it seems 
> to have become the end-all in a lot of people's thinking.  It's the right 
> tool for one basically one purpose, spotting; and secondarily for beaconing. 
> Beyond that narrow scope, it's more confining than if the Founding Fathers 
> had tried putting together the Constitution via Twitter!
> 
> If you go beyond the "PR" protocol and dig into the real modulation scheme, 
> you have the various (and less restrictive) flavors of JT available.  If 
> these versions start getting used more for beaconing and QSOs, I could 
> probably get more enthused.
> 
> Now, I do have one other underlying problem with WSPR.  Bob and I had been 
> discussing the undesirability of having to lie to the software to make it do 
> what you need, but to a certain extent I say "serves it right, because it 
> lies to us all the time."  People like to marvel at how many astonishing dB 
> "below noise" WSPR reports decoding signals at...but it's an equivocation at 
> best, and a pervarication at worst.  Apples to oranges--you decode a 6 Hz 
> wide signal in WSPR 2, but you measure the noise in a 2.4 kHz bandwidth. 
> That's a bogus 26 dB of "noise" right there.  Take that out, and the SNR 
> numbers don't look nearly so impressive.  :) 
> 
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