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Originally Posted by kalos72
SSb may not be a great option since the quality appears very poor. What have you done in your game to address this?
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The use of SSB has some challenges, but that is not the same as very poor quality. The biggest challenge is making sure the transmitter and receiver are tuned to the same frequency, since there is no carrier signal in SSB. With a manual tuner, that is very challenging. But there are ways to mitigate this. One way is the method NASA used. Just transmit a tone of a known audio frequency and let the receiver automatically lock on to it. If we assume Morrow personnel have the ability to calibrate their radios or the radios have the ability to use a transmitted tone to fine tune the radios, then the quality of SSB not a problem.
Even so, in most games there is little reason for the teams to use SSB often. The RF spectrum in the time the game is played is very quiet, so there should be plenty of bandwidth available. SSB is very bandwidth efficient and you can have more conversations in a smaller band of frequencies than AM. So while they may use it to attempting to communicate with some Morrow facility, it is unlikely to affect game play and should only be a factor if you need spotty communications for some reason. In that case, any RF transmission method can be degraded if the game play needs it.