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ECLECTIC TECHNOLOGY DIGITAL WEAK SIGNAL FM?  WB8IMY SKIP TELLER, KH6TY, HAS
BEEN INVOLVED IN DEVELOPMENT WORK ON THE NARROW BAND EMERGENCY MESSAGING
SYSTEM NBEMS.  IF YOU DIDNT CATCH MY PREVIOUS COLUMN ON THE TOPIC, YOU CAN
LEARN MORE ABOUT NBEMS AT WWW. W1HKJ. COM/NBEMS/.  THE SHORT AND SWEET OF
NBEMS IS THAT IT IS A SUITE OF WINDOWS SOUND CARD PROGRAMS THAT ALLOW HAMS
TO EXCHANGE DIGITAL INFORMATION USING ERROR FREE ARQ AUTOMATIC REPEAT
REQUEST FORMATS.  IT IS DESIGNED FOR RAPID DEPLOYMENT DURING EMERGENCIES
AND OTHER PUBLIC SERVICE EVENTS.  SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING EMERGED DURING
SKIPS RECENT NBEMS EXPERIMENTS.  WHILE USING A DIGITAL SOUND CARD MODE
KNOWN AS DOMINOEX, HE DECIDED TO RUN SOME TESTS WITH ORDINARY 2 METER FM
MOBILE RIGS AND HORIZONTALLY POLARIZED GAIN ANTENNAS.  TO SKIPS AMAZEMENT,
HE DISCOVERED THAT HE WAS ABLE TO USE THE 8 BAUD FORM OF DOMINOEX DOMINOEX
8 TO SEND AND RECEIVE TEXT AT SIGNAL LEVELS SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER THAN WHAT
IS COMMONLY EXPERIENCED USING SSB.  OUR TESTS HAVE CONSISTENTLY SHOWN THAT
YOU CAN GET 100 COPY USING DOMINOEX 8 WHEN SSB PHONE CAN NO LONGER BE
UNDERSTOOD, SKIP SAID.  THE REASON THIS WORKS IS BECAUSE DOMINOEX 8 CAN
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RW0AJ 142,956 C A RU1A 2,741,640 D VK2AYD 82,816 C B EA8ANE 3,488 A B
RA9FTM 897,024 C B HG6N 2,630,034 D VK2GR 24,752 C B ZD8Z 3,040,433 A C
RA9AP 788,256 C B OG0A 2,183,134 D VK6AA 492,356 C C CT95EE 218,364 A C
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