• FreeDV

    From Randall Schad@1:226/44 to All on Tue Dec 10 15:08:21 2024
    G'day all,

    I was doing a little poking around a few days ago, thinking about digital voice over HF, wondering if there was anything that had any traction, and stumbled across FreeDV.

    The samples I've found online were incredibly promising. What's advertised on the tin make it sound like it has fantastic weak signal correction and the audio sounds really fantastic. I'm wondering if anyone has tried it out.

    I set it up, but the number of people participating so far is incredibly small, so haven't made any QSOs yet.

    73,
    Randall
    WZ8Q

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  • From Alexander Grotewohl@1:120/616 to Randall Schad on Fri Dec 27 10:28:33 2024
    On 10 Dec 2024, Randall Schad said the following...

    The samples I've found online were incredibly promising. What's
    advertised on the tin make it sound like it has fantastic weak signal correction and the audio sounds really fantastic. I'm wondering if
    anyone has tried it out.

    i spent the time to get it going last year at some point. was kind of neat, but a lot of people just idle on there (there's a lister on their website to help facilitate contacts, which is rendered fairly useless)

    if you can work some audio routing magic, you can pipe an SDR through it to test how it works decoding. one group in japan uses it every day and there's a SDR near enough to them. not really useful since you can't talk to them though (assuming you're not in japan, but especially if you don't understand japanese! hehe)

    i think if i was gonna do it more often i might try to obtain (or build) one of their ezdv devices. using it on the pc is clunky and lends a sort of feeling that it might as well just be sending over the internet..

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