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From: "Alan Melia" <alan.melia@btinternet.com>
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Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 16:49:47 -0000
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Hi Paul, thank you for the effort put into his. I found it "easy reading" 
and very informative. It filled in a lot of the areas where I have "read the 
words" previously but often not fully understood the significance. It 
probably deserves wider circulation amongst the amateur community where it 
has the power to dispel some of the "smoke and mirrors" magic of "digital".

Alan
G3NYK
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Nicholson" <vlf0403@abelian.org>
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Sent: Monday, December 26, 2016 7:35 AM
Subject: LF: Article on forward error correction


>
> I wrote a non-mathematical introductory article about how
> forward error correction works.
>
> There's a lot of material on the web about FEC but most
> of it is very technical and tends to concentrate on one or
> another particular coding scheme.  I couldn't find anything
> that demonstrates and really explains in simple terms the
> essential principle of it.
>
> So I thought I'd try to write something, perhaps to see if
> I can understand it myself.
>
> The article should appeal to anyone who's wondered how 'coding'
> a message, which increases its bandwidth and reduces its S/N,
> can actually lead to greatly improved communications.
>
>  http://abelian.org/fec/pn161218/
>
> or in pdf format
>
>  http://abelian.org/fec/pn161218.pdf
>
> Whether I've succeeded or not, the reader will have to judge.
>
> --
> Paul Nicholson
> --
>