I had an opportunity to visit a very sophisticated lab on Wednesday where they were testing a complex software/hardware system whose implementation requires an almost perfect detection rate of positive events while achieving almost zero false alarms. (What else is new?) This is a public safety system where errors in either direction are capable of large loss of life and huge costs.
(The company involved expects the system to generate almost $700M in revenues over the next five years; this is a large effort.) A part of the system is a data link implemented mostly through a UHF and VHF radio channel. I asked them how they accounted for random noise in the test process. They walked me behind a rack of equipment and there, amidst its orders of magnitude more expensive brethren, was a tiny little Elecraft N-gen happily generating noise 24/7. I asked where it came from because I wanted to talk "Elecraft" with another amateur, but nobody seemed to know. It just seemed to have appeared one day. More Elecraft MOJO? Ed Lambert PE ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
