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To: GeronL
Radio Free America could be sending out hourly or daily data packets with the news that the government wants suppressed. Imagine getting a daily PDF “newspaper” via shortwave reception.

Short text data, yes. PDFs or images, no. The narrow bandwidths available in the high-frequency bands don't allow high bit rates. Your home internet connection is probably at least 1 megabit per second. HF digital bit rates are 8-45 bits per second. No, I didn't leave out the "mega" or even "kilo" before "bits".

There are faster modes, but they use acknowledgement by the recipient and retransmission (if necessary) for each data packet. This isn't suited for a broadcast.

The ARRL already does broadcasts like this:

http://www.arrl.org/w1aw-operating-schedule#digital

84 posted on 08/22/2013 7:00:25 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: justlurking

hopefully it can be improved upon


85 posted on 08/22/2013 8:21:27 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: justlurking

my download speed is 19.95 Mbps and upload is 20.71 Mpbs

for the record


86 posted on 08/22/2013 8:22:45 AM PDT by GeronL
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