Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Filterbank stuff

[Bob McGwier]

Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> I'm toying with some insane ideas for EME (Moonbounce) for a friend of mine.
>
> I'm toying with taking a modulated baseband from a QAM16 modulator, and
> replicating it across several spectral pickets
>   over a wide band, then on reception doing "something" with these
> redundant copies to improve SNR/BER.
>
> I'm currently thinking Analysis Filterbank/Synthesis Filterbank to take
> the baseband signals, and spread them across
>   a wider spectrum, with replication.
>
> Ignoring whether this approach is sane or not is the filterbank the
> right block to use to take multiple narrow baseband signals and
>   "map" them onto a wider baseband?
>
>   
PLEASE do yourself a favor and look at WSJT by Joe Taylor.  This guy has 
years and years and years of experience doing this.  He has studied the 
problem absolutely to the n-th degree.  His system is really beautifully 
done.  And,  you know he isn't a nut case because he won the Nobel prize 
for physics proving observational evidence for General Relativity by 
discovering and observing certain types of radio emission pulsars.  The 
only thing that has ever caused me to doubt his sanity was his taking 
the job of Dean of Faculty at Princeton for seven years!

http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/

Bob

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