G'day all,

I was doing a little poking around a few days ago, thinking about digital voice over HF, wondering if there was anything that had any traction, and stumbled across FreeDV.

The samples I've found online were incredibly promising. What's advertised on the tin make it sound like it has fantastic weak signal correction and the audio sounds really fantastic. I'm wondering if anyone has tried it out.

I set it up, but the number of people participating so far is incredibly small, so haven't made any QSOs yet.

73,
Randall
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Randall Schad wrote to All <=-

I was doing a little poking around a few days ago, thinking about
digital voice over HF, wondering if there was anything that had any traction, and stumbled across FreeDV.

The samples I've found online were incredibly promising. What's
advertised on the tin make it sound like it has fantastic weak signal correction and the audio sounds really fantastic. I'm wondering if
anyone has tried it out.

Not yet.
This is on my list of nodes to try out.
From what I've read I will need to set my radio up so that the radio's audio gets sent to my computer in the same way that it does for modes like Ft8 and others.
In order for me to use it though I will need to use my computer's mic to send voice and it will translate the digital audio and send it over the air as digital packets.

I set it up, but the number of people participating so far is
incredibly small, so haven't made any QSOs yet.

The best times for me to get on the radio are the weekends here in Florida so maybe we can setup a time to get on the air and see if we have a path between us.

Tom

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Re: FreeDV
By: Randall Schad to All on Tue Dec 10 2024 03:08 pm

I set it up, but the number of people participating so far is incredibly sma so haven't made any QSOs yet.

What did setting it up entail? Do you have your radio plugged into your computer's audio interface?

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On 10 Dec 2024, Randall Schad said the following...

The samples I've found online were incredibly promising. What's
advertised on the tin make it sound like it has fantastic weak signal correction and the audio sounds really fantastic. I'm wondering if
anyone has tried it out.

i spent the time to get it going last year at some point. was kind of neat, but a lot of people just idle on there (there's a lister on their website to help facilitate contacts, which is rendered fairly useless)

if you can work some audio routing magic, you can pipe an SDR through it to test how it works decoding. one group in japan uses it every day and there's a SDR near enough to them. not really useful since you can't talk to them though (assuming you're not in japan, but especially if you don't understand japanese! hehe)

i think if i was gonna do it more often i might try to obtain (or build) one of their ezdv devices. using it on the pc is clunky and lends a sort of feeling that it might as well just be sending over the internet..

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