Hi Bill,
thanks for the extra info, I noticed the padding as I added extra padding
to the nearest 32 bits as I do the parity generation in 32 bit chunks.
73 Alan M0NNB

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 3:49 PM Bill Somerville <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 10/02/2021 15:06, Bill Somerville wrote:
>
> On 10/02/2021 14:40, Alan Hopper wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm trying to write a FST4 encoder without using the source, I'm most of
> the way there using the excellent FT4_FT8_QEX and FST4_Quick_Start docs,
> the latter mentions generator_fst4.dat    and  generator_fst4w.dat which I
> can't find. Are these available or can I extract those tables from the
> source without breaching the licence?  Also what BT is used for the
> Gaussian shaping. I see details of the 50 bit payload are 'in preparation',
> If you want a proofreader, I'll very happily proof read by trying to
> implement it:)
> Thanks again for the great documentation and modes.
> 73 Alan M0NNB
>
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> I though there was a document describing the FST4 and FST4W protocols, but
> I can find it right now. Yes you can use the parity generators as they are
> part of the protocol.
>
> Here's the FST4 LDPC generator, a 139 by 26 matrix generating 139 parity
> bits from 101 (77 + 24 bits CRC) message bits:
>
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/wsjtx/ci/master/tree/lib/fst4/ldpc_240_101_generator.f90
>
> and here's the FST4W LDPC generator, a 166 by 19 matrix generating 166
> parity bits from 74 (50 + 24 bits CRC) message bits:
>
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/wsjtx/ci/master/tree/lib/fst4/ldpc_240_74_generator.f90
>
> you will have to take my word for these two specific files being in the
> public domain for now.
>
> BT for the WSJT-X FST4 and FST4W waveform Gaussian frequency smoothing is
> 2.0.
>
> 73
> Bill
> G4WJS.
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> note that the generator matrix widths above are for hex digits and contain
> some excess zeros 26*4=101+3 excess and 19*4=74+2 excess respectively.
>
> We should have a more formal and complete document ready shortly.
>
> 73
> Bill
> G4WJS.
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