I have had Hamscope decode signals I could neither hear on the speaker or see on the waterfall... but perfect text was displayed on the text receive window.
And what's amazing is that I can crank my 100 watt TS-2000 down to 20-40 watts and chat with folks I could never even hear on SSB running the full 100 watt input that the TS-2000 can do.. Such is the nature of Digital
Another interesting thing about this is that Television is converting from analog to digital, and I keep reading how the digital transmissions will be lower power and thus won't get out as good........ Just like my 20-30 watts of PSK don't get out as good as 100 SSB.. Oh, wait, PSK (Digital) Does get out as good as SSB (Analog) at 3 times the power.. IN fact. it gets out BETTER
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