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> Pactor is around 2.4khz bandwidth while voice is 3khz The whole reason that voice isn't allowed in the data bands is it's so wide. FT-8 is only 50Hz wide, M
by vvanders 7y ago
> Pactor is around 2.4khz bandwidth while voice is 3khz
The whole reason that voice isn't allowed in the data bands is it's so wide.
FT-8 is only 50Hz wide, Morse code is ~100Hz. In the space of a single Pactor you can fit 48 FT-8 transmissions or 20+ morse code.
If we wanted progress we could look at repealing the symbol rate limits rather than just scaling up the bandwidth of a signal[1].
[1] http://www.arrl.org/pactor-iii http://www.arrl.org/pactor-iii