Re: LF: Amtor FEC on LF

["Stewart Bryant" <stewart.bryant@virgin.net>]

"'Geri' Kinzel, DK8KW" wrote:

> Andy,
>
> >Isn't AMTOR / RTTY a rather wide and dirty mode to be using on LF ?
> >170 Hz shift transmitting 100 Baud is at least 300 Hz wide.........
>
> ... well, Andy, you are definetely right, AMTOR is by far not an optimum
> mode for LF, but here in Northern Germany, the LF population density is
> very low, my next active LF neighbor is over 100 km away, so it does not
> cause the same trouble you might have in areas such as the U.K. but helps
> to fill the band at least with some signals  .... ;-)
> But scaled down Amtor (divide by 10 all round) might be useful
Stewart G3YSX