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LEFT BEHIND AS A BOAT SLICES THROUGH THE WATER.  NBEMS IN MISSISSIPPI IN MY
APRIL 2008 COLUMN I INTRODUCED YOU TO THE NARROW BAND EMERGENCY MESSAGING
SYSTEM NBEMS, A SOFTWARE SUITE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO SET UP DIGITAL MESSAGING
TABLE 1 READABILITY R5 95 PERFECTLY READABLE R4 80 PRACTICALLY NO
DIFFICULTY OCCASIONAL MISSED CHARACTERS R3 40 CONSIDERABLE DIFFICULTY MANY
MISSED CHARACTERS R2 20 OCCASIONAL WORDS DISTINGUISHABLE R1 0
UNDECIPHERABLE STRENGTH S9 VERY STRONG TRACE S7 STRONG TRACE S5 MODERATE
TRACE S3 WEAK TRACE S1 BARELY PERCEPTIBLE TRACE QUALITY Q9 CLEAN SIGNAL NO
VISIBLE SIDE TRACES Q7 ONE BARELY VISIBLE PAIR OF SIDE TRACES Q5 ONE EASILY
VISIBLE PAIR OF SIDE TRACES Q3 MULTIPLE SIDE TRACES Q1 SPLATTER OVER MUCH
OF THE SPECTRUM NETWORKS ON THE FLY WITH NOTHING MORE THAN A RADIO AND A
SOUND CARD EQUIPPED COMPUTER SEE WWW. W1HKJ. COM/ NBEMS/.  IT DIDNT TAKE
LONG FOR HAMS TO BEGIN EXPERIMENTING WITH NBEMS.  THE SOUTH MISSISSIPPI
EMERGENCY REPEATER GROUP HAS ALREADY CONDUCTED SUCCESSFUL TESTS USING NBEMS
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K4UTE/359 W6UA/340 I1JQJ/341 K2XF/343 VK3SX/341 I1AGC/354 KD6WW/340
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