Re: [wsjt-devel] 1.8.0-rc1 User manual: FT8 protocol description

2017-08-10 Thread Bill Somerville
On 10/08/2017 18:50, Richard Lamont wrote: 75 information bits and 174 channel symbols. Hi Richard, that probably should be 174 codeword bits, I believe that's the correct term for the information carrying bits plus the parity bits. I have made a suitable change to the description. Thanks

[wsjt-devel] 1.8.0-rc1 User manual: FT8 protocol description

2017-08-10 Thread Richard Lamont
Hi all, Looking at Section 16.2.1 of the rc1 User Manual, it says in the first sentence that there are 75 information bits and 174 channel symbols. (Later in the paragraph it says there are 79 channel symbols.) AIUI, this should be 75 payload bits, 174 information-carrying bits and 79 channel sym