Re: [wsjt-devel] FT8 Soft Demapper in WSJT-X

2019-07-29 Thread James VK3JPK
Steve, Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my question in detail. I will dig out the papers you reference and take a read. Re the Gray map, that all makes perfect sense now with the hindsight of your explanation! There are clearly a lot of things to learn in the source code of W

Re: [wsjt-devel] FT8 Soft Demapper in WSJT-X

2019-07-29 Thread Steven Franke via wsjt-devel
Hi James, > The source code in question is lines 168 through 215 of lib/ft8/ft8b.f90 (Git > tag wsjtx-x 2.1). This source code appears to implement a “soft demapper” > that takes groups of 1, 2 or 3 successive symbol observations and turns these > into groups of 3, 6 or 9 log likelihood ratios

[wsjt-devel] FT8 Soft Demapper in WSJT-X

2019-07-28 Thread James VK3JPK
WSJT-X Developers, I have been studying the WSJT-X source code to learn how it decodes FT8 signals to enhance my rather outdated (1980s) understanding of DSP and information theory. There is one part of the source code that I can’t figure out and I was hoping that one of the WSJT-X developers