{"id":10202,"date":"2013-12-04T20:03:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T01:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=10202"},"modified":"2013-12-04T20:03:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T01:03:04","slug":"my-first-freedv-qso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/04\/my-first-freedv-qso\/","title":{"rendered":"My first FreeDV QSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-04-at-19.27.23-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10203\" alt=\"FreeDV Digital Voice QSO in Progress\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-04-at-19.27.23--320x250.png\" width=\"320\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-04-at-19.27.23--320x250.png 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-04-at-19.27.23--160x125.png 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2013-12-04-at-19.27.23-.png 888w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/freedv.org\/tiki-index.php\">FreeDV<\/a> is a <em>fully open<\/em> digital voice protocol; unlike DMR, D-STAR and the rest, there are no patents tying it down. It uses very little bandwidth for voice. I just had my first QSO (thanks K5WH in Texas!) using this mode. While it does make voices sound a little robotic, there&#8217;s <strong>no<\/strong> static, no hiss, nothing unwanted. That&#8217;s what always put me off HF voice: trying to work out who is saying what through all the noise. FreeDV fixes that.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite a new protocol, so you don&#8217;t hear it much on the air yet. I hope to be making some more noise with it soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FreeDV is a fully open digital voice protocol; unlike DMR, D-STAR and the rest, there are no patents tying it down. It uses very little bandwidth for voice. I just had my first QSO (thanks K5WH in Texas!) using this mode. While it does make voices sound a little robotic, there&#8217;s no static, no hiss, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2290],"tags":[2284,1729,2751,2285,2057,1215,956],"class_list":["post-10202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","tag-amateur","tag-digital","tag-freedv","tag-ham","tag-open","tag-radio","tag-voice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-2Ey","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10206,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202\/revisions\/10206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}