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- From: Steve Lee <sjlee@iastate.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Communication Questions
- Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 22:00:08 -0800
- Organization: Iowa State University
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- Hi,
-
- I have a few questions about data communications, and can't find a better newsgroup to post to
- (if someone thinks of one, could they please suggest it). I am taking a networking class this
- semester and some questions have arisen. So, here goes...
-
- I have a pretty good understanding of frequency shift keying (FSK), where one frequency is
- defined to be SPACE and another frequency is defined to be MARK. My question is when you see a
- frequency spectrum graph for a modem implementing FSK (such as the Bell model 103), it shows a
- spectrum that is 1500 Hz or so wide (it is a full duplex modem, so this is one direction). I
- don't understand why all of those frequencies are used in the signal when I thought only 2
- frequencies were used to encode the digital data (in this case, 1070 Hz for SPACE and 1270 Hz for
- MARK). Can someone clear up my confusion?
-
- Another question is about full duplex with digital signals. I understand how you can implement
- full duplexity on analog signals (either use different frequency spectrums or use echo
- cancelation multiplexing), but I don't understand how it would be done with digital signals.
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
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- Steve Lee
- Computer Engineering/Computer Science
- Iowa State University
- email -> sjlee@iastate.edu
- WWW -> http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~sjlee/homepage.html
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