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wb2osz / direwolf

Dire Wolf is a software "soundcard" AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder. It can be used stand-alone to observe APRS traffic, as a tracker, digipeater, APRStt gateway, or Internet Gateway (IGate). For more information, look at the bottom 1/4 of this page and in https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/blob/dev/doc/README.md
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Enhancement: Don't complain about background noise #511

Open jmkristian opened 5 months ago

jmkristian commented 5 months ago

The output from Direwolf often complains "Audio input level is too high" for short packets but not for long packets. It stops complaining if I activate squelch in the radio. But that's bad, as David explained.

I guess audio samples immediately preceding or following a received packet are included in the calculation of loudness. Since an open squelch with no signal is much louder than a good signal, and the good signal is relatively brief, the result is too high. A longer packet provides a larger sample of low audio, which yields a more accurate calculation. I guess.

It would be pleasant to eliminate these insignificant complaints. They're distracting, especially because they're colored red in the log.

na7q commented 5 months ago

I vote for keeping it all. No distractions from any of it.