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Re: [TenTec] Questions about NR i.e. Orion

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Questions about NR i.e. Orion
From: "OE3ZK Gerhard" <oe3zk@aon.at>
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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:56:38 +0100
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Thank you Bill, Jerry, Sinisa, Lin and others for the debate about NR. 

It did help my understanding!

What I read in these responses is that many of us see filtering /bandwidth 
reduction as the sole means of improving the ability to recover information 
from noise. I feel this misses the point that I am exploring. In his 1948 
landmark paper, Claude Shannon extends the work of Nyquist and Hartley. 
Significatly Shannon refers to statistical processes and entropy (the degree of 
randomness) of a signal. In the case of CW some of that processing takes place 
in our heads. This says to me that data processing ability ultimately becomes 
key to signal recovery and as there is a clear difference in the entropy of 
coded data vs analog voice, those processes should be different. I very much 
doubt that deep space communications relies on bandwidth reduction alone


What I fail to understand is the claim by users of Linrad and Winrad that DSP 
noise reduction is improved by processing noise in a much wider band than the 
signal itself. It appears to be born out by examples, I just don't know why... 

73 Gert, OE3ZK



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