I think the square separated the points from each other equally. I am surprised none of the RF designs use trellis coded modulation. That was all the rage back in the dial up modem days.
From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 8:46 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Trango But the max power is a circle (in I-Q plane) set by either regulations or power amp. And best noise performance is achieved by maximizing vector distance between constellation points. So a square should be sub optimum. From: Chuck McCown Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 7:45 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Trango According to something I read, square is more noise resistant. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 6:23 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Trango Do all these manufacturers really still use square constellations? I thought when you were trying to eek out every last dB of performance, you pruned a larger constellation to get a hexagon or something close to a circle. From: Chuck McCown Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 5:26 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Trango 13 bits per symbol.... wow. Doesn’t take much noise to ruin your day. I wonder what the symbol rate is. From: Eric Kuhnke Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 4:16 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Trango Did somebody says more QAMs? https://twitter.com/ibelings/status/651162559089774592 8192QAM But yeah, it's DOCSIS3.1 stuff, so not RF through the air... On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: I think the StrataPro is maybe out now (24 GHz). Probably the only way to find out availability of 6/11/18/23 GHz is to call them, then apply some Kentucky windage. I think they are using some new chipset from Broadcom that goes up to 4096QAM? More QAMs, as George would say. Also supposed to be high xmt power without consuming a ton of power, due to xmt predistortion, if I remember right from the WISPA show. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Petermann Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 9:44 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Trango Does anyone know when the Trango next gen radios are going to hit the market? Where can I find a spec sheet?