[aprssig] APRS Bandwidth

[Steve Noskowicz]

--- Stephen H. Smith wrote:

> For AFSK,  ...TX modulator & IF filters limit the bandwidth...
> Further, the better ... generators have limited transition rates...

a.k.a. bandwidth limits.


> The old time direct FSK RTTY setups from the 50s-60s
> actually diode-switched a small capacitor ...varactor diode

  Ah yes.  Modify the exciter and hook it up to a teletype machine.
Clackity-ckack, paper tape and all that.


>... commanding the synthesizer to two freqs 200 Hz apart.
> For direct FSK, most rigs have some sort of slew-rate
> limiting ... filtering.


What I'd hoped, but didn't know for sure.

Thanks, Steve.  I could surmise this, but I assume you *know* this.

73, Steve, K9DCI