Can you guys please stop now ;-) ;-)
Next contest I'll be thinking like in the casino when I receive an
exchange like "CA": there's a chance of 1 in xxx that "CA" means "VA",
there's a chance of 1 in xxx that "CA" means "CO" etc :-) :-)
Op 17/01/2012 10:49, Kok Chen schreef:
> On Jan 16, 2012, at 11:42 PM, Bill Turner wrote:
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>> If Ed sends 599 CA and it gets garbled so it prints 599 CO, the other
>> guy sees it's a valid state name and will copy it correctly but the
>> information is wrong.
> This particular example is probably [sic] not a good choice, Bill :-).
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> 4 out of the 5 Baudot bits of an "A" would have to flip themselves to produce
> an "O." A single "CA" printing as "CO" is going to be quite rare.
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> Threshold biasing from QRM that is on one side of the RTTY signal will not
> likely produce the CA-to-CO error either, since both A and O have the same
> Hamming weight.
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> On the other hand, "CA" turning into "VA" requires only a single bit change.
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> 73
> Chen, W7AY
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