[BC] RE: That Guy at the PAB who inspected Dana Puopolo'sStation

[Darryl Parker]

TFT tested this issue with Scientific-Atlanta in 1995 relative to
compressed satellite transmission schemes. All tests were successful and
approached 100% repeatability, except for 32 kbps schemes which were
less than 50%.

Darryl E. Parker
TFT, Inc.

-----Original Message-----

 From: Dana Puopolo
Puopolo'sStation

You make a very astute observation, Mark.  If there might be problems
running 'duck farts' through 128 kbps MPEG coding then how about the HD
radio coding that's 1/3 that bit rate. Or the coding on a digital TV SAP
channel, or the coding on an AM IBOC 32 kbps channel..or...or or...

Has anyone actually tested any of these?

-D

(Mark Humphrey shrewdly observed)
So should we be concerned about decoding EAS transmissions from a
station using the HD codec at 48 kbps or less?   Have any tests been
run on this codec at the low rate used for AM IBOC to prove it is still
a reliable way to carry EAS FSK data?

Mark