{"id":7148,"date":"2012-01-22T12:07:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T17:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=7148"},"modified":"2012-01-22T12:07:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T17:07:36","slug":"keep-it-short-keep-me-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/22\/keep-it-short-keep-me-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"keep it short, keep me sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of my radio communications use a text mode called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PSK31\">PSK-31<\/a>. It&#8217;s popular and survives a lot of interference, but fast it isn&#8217;t. I tested sending 1000 random characters, and it took 5&#8242; 33&#8243;. That&#8217;s about this speed:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/psk31-speed.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7149\" title=\"PSK-31 sends text at 3.2 chars\/second.\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/psk31-speed.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/psk31-speed.gif 480w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/psk31-speed-160x13.gif 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/psk31-speed-320x26.gif 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a>Because the mode is so slow, I prefer to keep my transmissions and macros short, stopping just shy of Morse&#8217;s telegraphically incomprehensible VY FB CPY OM. My heart sinks when I&#8217;m in a QSO, and I see the beginning of a huge piece of macro text being fired at me. A one-way long conversation (like the dude who sent the entire wikipedia article about his hometown) isn&#8217;t a ragchew, it&#8217;s a barrage. If someone started wittering on at you for 15 minutes without a chance for you to say anything, no-one would want to talk to them. So please, check your macros, think before you type, and we&#8217;ll have more and more pleasant contacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of my radio communications use a text mode called PSK-31. It&#8217;s popular and survives a lot of interference, but fast it isn&#8217;t. I tested sending 1000 random characters, and it took 5&#8242; 33&#8243;. That&#8217;s about this speed: Because the mode is so slow, I prefer to keep my transmissions and macros short, stopping just [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2290],"tags":[2303,1215],"class_list":["post-7148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","tag-psk31","tag-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1Ri","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148","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=7148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7152,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions\/7152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}