Kenneth and the group, according to survey of 1654 operators on the ISS fan club site, crossband repeat was prefered over packet by 12 percent. In the future, please find a way to share radio time with crossband repeat.
Playing devils advocate, (and not wanting to stir up a debate), these thoughts come to mind...
- If it takes 10 times the hassle to shift modes, - If the risk of error to change modes goes up by 10, - If the preference of changing modes is 10% over not
Then, considering the negative hassle factor, the overall net gain for changing modes is on the order of 1%. And the risk of getting neither is 10 times worse.
Of course these are just made up numbers, but they show what could be the trade-off's that are involved in making decisions about operating modes on ISS. Just something to consider... Bob