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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: AT&T news release
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.001955.3294@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:19:55 GMT
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- rschnapp@metaflow.com (Russ Schnapp) writes:
- :
- : I've heard about frequency hopping and spread spectrum stuff for over a
- : decade now. It sounds like a great idea, but I have never bothered,
- : for some reason, to ask two basic questions:
- :
- : 1) How does it increase range without increasing effective radiated
- : power? If it's simply a matter of raising the effective
- : signal-to-noise ratio, how does it accomplish that?
-
- I expect that the increased range is due to using digital transmission - not
- to spread spectrum technology.
-
- : 2) How do the transmitter and receiver agree on the hopping sequence,
- : and how do they synchronize?
-
- I would guess that it will scan sequentially through the channels that
- are chosen. That would simplify the software tremendously. Or, since it
- is digital, the next channel to be used could easily be transmitted, along
- with the voice data. There would be plenty of bandwidth for control signals.
-
- Bill
-