Hi Alberto,

On 3/30/2016 1:16 PM, Alberto I2PHD wrote:
> On 3/30/2016 7:08 PM, Joe Taylor wrote:
>
>>  /More recently, Steve (K9AN) and I developed an open-source Reed Solomon
>>  decoder for the (63,12).  Many messages about this work are in the
>>  wsjt-devel Archives, and the code is now part of WAJT-X, WSJT, and
>>  MAP65.  The Koetter-Vardy decoder is no longer used by any of our
>>  programs.
>>
>>  Steve and I have written a paper on the"Franke-Taylor"  soft-decision
>>  decoder.  It will appear next month in the ARRL journal QEX.  A
>>  "preprint"  has been posted at the following link:
>>
>>  //http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/ftrsd.pdf//
>>  /
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> thanks for your answer and for the pointer to the code.
> Apparently your soft decoder is meant for a GF(2^6) field.
> How difficult would it be to modify it for a GF(2^8), i.e. for a
> decoder able to deal with the entire ASCII alphabet ?

That could certainly be done.  It's hard to be quantitative about how 
difficult a task that would be, but our existing code was not written in 
a way that will make it trivial.

You would need to study the present code (which is reasonably well 
commented) and make your own estimate.

        -- Joe, K1JT

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