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Subject: Re: [geda-user] [OT] Wireless communication 101
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> On 23 Sep 2015, at 20:52, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> 
> On 09/23/2015 03:30 AM, John Griessen wrote:
>>> What I'm looking for are any texts or references that discuss the
>>> principle of digital encoding for wireless transmission, which
>>> algorithms and strategies are used in what circumstances and why. As I
>>> said, I can't influence the RF part, only the ones and zeros that are
>>> encoded onto the carrier. I also can't change at this stage the
>>> simplex operation.
>> 
>> I don't have a reference, but I've heard that reed solomon encoding has
>> been used by nasa for telemetry
>> to get signals through under the noise.
> 
>  Reed-Solomon is a FEC (Forward Error Correction) algorithm that embeds
> enough error correction data in the bitstream to be able to fix some
> errors on the receiving end without retransmission.  It doesn't really
> do much for the noise floor.
> 
>  That said, though, it's an excellent suggestion.
> 
>  One other thing to do is bit-stuffing to maintain DC balance.  That's
> particularly important if the modulation is FM and the RX-side RF tuning
> is automatic.  A time-averaged DC value of 0 is very important in that case.

Yes, I'm already Manchester encoding the data and transmitting a significant amount of 0xAA preamble for the RX to lock on to.

Chris