Hey guys! Long time lurker, first time poster. Thanks for all of your invaluable advice over the years!
I'm very interested in the DSR4, and am coming from a DCR822. I have a couple DBSMs, and a some SMDWBs. I know that the SRCs use antenna phase switching, which seems to work great with digital hybrid transmitters. My DCR822 uses 2 receiver boards per channel, which allows vector diversity on each channel. As I understand it, vector diversity is the ideal mode you want to use with digital transmitters. If the DSR4 only has 1 receiver board channel, this seems like it would make vector diversity on 4 channels impossible, as Karl stated earlier.
My question is: can anyone speak to range and reliability of a digital transmitter (DBSM) and a receiver using antenna phase switching? Does vector diversity enable significantly better reception than antenna phase switching in D2 mode?
If vector diversity is required for reliable digital signals, then it would seem that while the DSR4 is a 4 channel digital hybrid receiver, it's actually only a 2 channel digital receiver.
