LF: RE: Article on forward error correction

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Paul,

Highly instructive, clear, reader-friendly, makes essential principles 
understandable.

Also a pleasure to read.

Best by far in capturing the essence, I learned a lot.

Thank you.

Jim AA5BW  

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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.

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Paul Nicholson
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