Brian Reay wrote:
"Mike Gathergood (G4KFK)" wrote in message
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Radium wrote:
What is FEC?
Forward Error Correction. Google it :-)


Just to add to Mike's comment, FEC works by send the same message several
times- in simple terms, in the hope that one with get through correctly.

You may want to read up on Viterbi, Sequential, Turbo Product Codes
(TPC) and Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) forms of FEC to see how they
work and see if that statement still holds true!

It's truly amazing how many errors Turbo codes and LDPC codes can
actually correct even with only an additional 5% of error correction
coding on top of the data stream in some cases!