Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reminder about call today

2012-02-19 Thread George Nychis
> > > OFDM for the equalization and FEC for the channel errors has been a > successful technique used in residential power-line communications. > However, commercial buildings tend to have long and unpredictable > power delay profiles, requiring long symbol times. In addition, there > are enormous

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reminder about call today

2012-02-16 Thread Evan Merewether
=syndetix@gnu.org] On Behalf Of George Nychis Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 12:49 PM To: Tom Rondeau Cc: GNURadio Discussion List Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reminder about call today Interesting thought. Powerline communications have been discussed for quite a while, but they tend

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reminder about call today

2012-02-16 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:49, George Nychis wrote: > Trust me, I am far from an EE person, so ignore any outrageous > misunderstandings ;)  I guess this will start as more of question:  since we > can't stick Rx/Tx directly in to a wall socket... what actually needs to > happen to stick an Rx/Tx

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reminder about call today

2012-02-16 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:24, Tom Rondeau wrote: > Powerline communications have been discussed for quite > a while, but they tend to be horrible channels (old copper, long distances, > bad shielding, etc.). So yes, I'd expect OFDM for the equalization and > multipath (or 'echos' in this case) i

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reminder about call today

2012-02-16 Thread George Nychis
> > > Interesting thought. Powerline communications have been discussed for > quite a while, but they tend to be horrible channels (old copper, long > distances, bad shielding, etc.). So yes, I'd expect OFDM for the > equalization and multipath (or 'echos' in this case) issues and heavy > channel c

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reminder about call today

2012-02-16 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:06 AM, George Nychis wrote: > Hey all, > > I actually really want to join the call, because I have a GSoC idea, but I > have a conflict with teaching assistant duties during that time. > Hi George, Sorry the timing won't work out this month. > So I thought I'd brie

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reminder about call today

2012-02-16 Thread George Nychis
Hey all, I actually really want to join the call, because I have a GSoC idea, but I have a conflict with teaching assistant duties during that time. So I thought I'd briefly share, and if it does become of interest then maybe someone can get ahold of me and I could try to mentor or something. I

[Discuss-gnuradio] Reminder about call today

2012-02-16 Thread Tom Rondeau
This is just a reminder about today's Developers' Call. Due to other conflicts, the time has been changed from the normal time to 1600 EST or 2100 UTC. http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Call20120216 We'll probably want to spend a significant amount of time on discussing the proje