Re: [digitalradio] Re: Has anyone looked into FPGA-based digital modes?

2008-08-04 Thread Simon Brown
As Dave says, Make the modulator and demodulator available in a form easily incorporated into existing digital mode applications This is so very important. Olivia / MT63 is easy to implement because Pavel made source code available. If the source for a new mode is available in a commonly

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Has anyone looked into FPGA-based digital modes?

2008-08-03 Thread Dave AA6YQ
AA6YQ comments below From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill McLaughlin Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 5:02 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: [digitalradio] Re: Has anyone looked into FPGA-based digital modes? To echo what Rick stated

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Has anyone looked into FPGA-based digital modes?

2008-08-03 Thread Jose A. Amador
I believe that both the AX.25 and the BBS model are OK, but that the packet channel coding is a disaster in the sense that a single erroneous bit trashes a frame. That fires up the retries chain that are so detrimental to the link capacity, and may sever it as well. Pactor does a _LOT_

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Has anyone looked into FPGA-based digital modes?

2008-08-03 Thread Rick W.
I fully agree that just having a new mode that might be marginally better than a popular mode will have a difficult time competing. While most ragchewers would not necessarily need an ARQ mode, I personally prefer it. But I am in the extreme minority. I used to have Amtor contacts in old days