I watch Television using a Digital TV Convertor box.
While I was watching a show I noticed the image froze for a moment and
I wasn't able to hear any sound until the freeze ended and thought
about You using D-STAR, VOIP and maybe other Digital Modes for Amateur Radio.
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Hi Ed!
06 Nov 2017 19:55, from Ed Vance -> Daryl Stout:
I watch Television using a Digital TV Convertor box.
While I was watching a show I noticed the image froze for a moment and
I wasn't able to hear any sound until the freeze ended and thought
about You using D-STAR, VOIP and maybe other Digital Modes for Amateur Radio.
Correct.
That is indeed a characteristic of digital encoding.
You have a perfect signal until the error correction is not able to
cope with the bit error rate.
At that point you will have audio/video artefacts or even small outages (depending on the conditions).
On an analog signal you will hear/see degradation much earlier, but you will have some form of very staticy signal that you may be able to
decode when you have very bad conditions.
On digital on those conditions you will have no service.
Would You know if Amateur Radio Digital Modes are affected by QRN or
QSB?
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