Citing numerous advancements in communication technology over the years, a study released Wednesday by researchers at Cornell University found that voices coming through walkie-talkies should sound normal by now. “After countless hours of fact-finding and analysis, we’ve concluded that it’s 2025, and the speaker shouldn’t be all crackly anymore,” said lead researcher Jerome Thompson, noting that at a time when humanity was developing quantum computers, it was “pretty messed-up” that voices in two-way radio transceivers still came out tinny and could be difficult to understand. […]
Airport gate announcements. Terminally unintelligible.
That’s the sort of pun I like.
Or airplane announcements. The announcer also always has to have some obscure accent.
A big problem with Motorola type radios is user error. Mic too close to their mouth and off axis so the noise cancelling can’t find them.
I assume the reason those bands are public use in the first place is because they’re terrible and unfit for any real use? Otherwise they’d probably be reserved and regulated like other frequency bands are.
Nope. It’s because the Community Band has been split into around 80 narrowband channels that are only suitable for LoFi AM transmissions. Digital transmissions that would sound as good as a mobile phone take up too much bandwidth.
Rawhrrbrrckrgkck. Crck Crrck? Frrrckahrrrah.Crx.
same with bluetooth headphones
