Larry W4CSC wrote:
chuck wrote in :


Hey Larry,

A small clarification. There are two types of AMTOR: ARQ and
FEC. The ARQ mode does involve error correction, but the FEC
(which is Forward Error Correction, not Full Error
Correction) does NOT. AMTOR B, which is FEC AMTOR, simply
sends each character twice. If that doesn't do it, the
character is lost or received erroneously.

73,

Chuck


Yeah, they wouldn't use FEC with email as the header would be trashed.....



Do you have any idea what you're talking about, Larry? AMTOR
FEC wouldn't know how to trash a header. It may pass errors,
but it would not "know" what an email header was. Can you
explain how this "email header trashing" occurs?

You might have been more creative by observing that the
alphanumeric density of typical email headers forces the FEC
algorithm into unnecessary redundancy loops, thereby
increasing the probability of fatal packet collisions.

If you don't pick up the pace, you're going to lose your
following! ;-)

73,

Chuck