I need a little help understanding our wonderful and wondrous Digital communications modes. First off, consider me an OF who started out on AM in the 70’s, went to SSB in the 1980’s, CW in 1985 and, the rest is history.
Help me with this “Waterfall” display that is interfaced to the soundcard of my PC; I am familiar with Pan-Adapters and Spectrum Analyzers but, how does this soundcard generated a video display to pinpoint a 31 hertz wide signals and transmit a signal on that exact “RCH” of a frequency so that the other guy’s soundcard can decode my message sent thru my (pretty wide) SSB filter?
Although I’ve messed around with it a little I was not really impressed with sending the canned Spam that the macros offer and, I really didn’t get into radio to stare at a keyboard and type, it just isn’t “radio”.
Can I interface a “Speech-to-Text” program to any of the popular Digital programs and turn it back into ‘communicating’?
ETA: I cross-posted this to 'Da Zed looking for answers.
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