--- "Brett L. Trotter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But the thought was, what if a byte is completely obliterated- then > everything would be shifted over one (or more) and my groupings > wouldn't align No it's not like that. The transmitter clocks out bits at a fixed rate. When some of the bits are covered with noise and "lost" the following bits are not send backwards in time to take the place of the "lost" bits. So if I send "Hello World" and one characters is lost you might get "Hello W rld" you would not get "Hello Wld". Bits come in fixed "windows" of time and in every window you either see a 1, 0, or "X" but the window of time does not disappear. Ok not a perfect example because if the data drops out for more than a few bits the clock on the receiver could loose sync and you would not know how many bits were lost but there is typically a pattern in the frame headers that allows the clock to re-sync. Chris Albertson Home: 310-376-1029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 310-336-5189 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
