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Dee Flint wrote:
Please show me and everyone else how we can run more than 300 baud on HF without exceeding reasonable band widths. There are a whole lot of things, not just video, that would be nice to do. The answer (in large part) is to use different modulation and encoding schemes. Such as QPSK instead of BFSK. Multiple carriers spaced just far enough apart to avoid interference. Simultaneous AM and PM. Of course such modes may not have the HF performance we're used to from, say, PSK31 or SSB. You don't get something for nothing; Shannon's Theorem shows that the increased data rate in a given bandwidth comes at the price of needing more S/N to get acceptable results. As K0HB points out, the 300 baud limit only applies in the CW/data subbands. If you can stuff "TV" into a reasonable bandwidth, it can be sent in the voice/image subbands. As a simple example, imagine 25 PSK31 carriers spaced cheek-by-jowl in a typical SSB bandwidth, running QPSK. If one gets you 100 baud, 25 will get you 2500 baud. Go to 8PSK and you get 5000 baud. Then add compression on top of that... How can we do it? Bandwidth is directly related to baud rate. Only if "all else is equal". The trick is to make the tradeoff somewhere else. The familiar "56K" modem trades off S/N rather than bandwidth. It's not a complex subject at all. You've probably heard the old engineering adage: "You can have it fast, good or cheap. Choose any two" All Shannon's Theorem does is equate fast to data rate, good to S/N, and cheap to bandwidth. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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