I quoted the context.

On 7/3/2018 6:35 PM, Neil Zampella wrote:
Wes,

you're taking that out of context.   The structured messages allow for redundancy if some of the original message is missing. The decoder can take the sync symbols so that the system can understand what type of message it is, it still needs the callsign and signal report.

More details can be found here: https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-1.9.1.html#PROTOCOLS and here https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/FrankeTaylor_QEX_2016.pdf which covers JT65, but which forms some of the basis for the other JT/FT protocols.

Neil, KN3ILZ


On 7/3/2018 5:16 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:
In a message to this group back in February I wrote:

   Quoting G4WJS: "For FT8 the net effect is that
   up to about 5 seconds of a message may be missing yet still
   be decoded. The amount missing can be either a truncation or
   parts of the message below the decoding threshold. The FT8
   message is structured with sync symbols at the start, middle
   and end so missing the start or end may have less impact
   than missing other parts since mostly sync symbols may be
   lost and they contain no message information."

Hence, I dubbed the mode, "Imaginary"  since it hears things that aren't there.

Wes  N7WS

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