I wish the author of Codec 2 would bit a bit more effort into >5000 b/s stuff: Opus goes down to 6 kb/s but Codec 2 doesn't quite get up that high.

It'd be nice to have some overlap so that unencumbered codecs could be used up and down the spectrum without any gaps.

Codec2 is still not ready for real use for some reason... Never heard of anyone playing around with it, especially in vhf/uhf