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- From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
- Subject: Re: interesting modem idea -- please read!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.165820.13964@rtsg.mot.com>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <1992Sep6.004314.5323@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1992Sep6.061810.23689@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 16:58:20 GMT
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- barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) publicly declared:
- > This would not work. Wih a method like this, you would only be able
- >to produce an amplitude modulated signal, which would be worthless for
- >anything over 300 bps. Fast modems use frequency modulation, which would
- >not be producable using a method such as this.
-
- Correction: 300 baud modems use frequency modulation. The amplitude of
- the signals is constant, but the modem uses tones of different
- frequencies to differentiate 1s from 0s. Faster modems (1200, 2400)
- use phase modulation, which I barely understand and couldn't hope to
- explain over the net. Even faster modems (9600, 14.4k) use a
- combination of phase and amplitude, maybe even with some frequency
- shifts for good measure. In my opinion, they're just simply magic. :-)
-
- You're right though, that anything over 300 baud would be very
- difficult if not outright impossible on the hardware we've got.
- Digital signal processing chips are expensive for a reason!
-
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