This brings to mind some WOLF recordings I made of M0BMU in March, 2001. The
noise was dominated by static crashes and impulses, rather than the usual
neighborhood buzz. The decoding process was greatly helped by the "-b"
blanker option in WOLF. Then I processed the file through a brick-wall
limiter in Cool Edit. That worked even better. As I recall, the limiter was
created by yanking up the limiter curve so that everything above -60 dB was
brought up to 0 dB. Nasty sounding, I can assure you.
I announced my triumph to Stewart, and then found to my dismay that the
technique didn't work well on any other files than those recorded that
night.
Anyway, I will be running my Lowfer beacon in Jason mode all next week, and
will be listening from 200 km away. That should provide a decent test
platform.
John Andrews, W1TAG
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