[TenTec] Noise Reduction Setting

Grant Youngman nq5t at tx.rr.com
Fri Dec 8 00:01:26 EST 2006


> Now, on the other hand, the kind of processing I've been 
> talking about (and was led to believe is being done by Ten 
> Tec...but who knows, maybe not) does not take huge parallel 
> processors nor does it involve latency of any serious amount. 
>  In the military applications for example, SAW processors 
> (Surface Acoustic Wave) handle this nicely, as do various 
> hard wired ASICS.  The latter are comparatively cheap.  
> Neither do much actual processing, as the algorithm is pretty 
> much hard wired in.

It's done in the DSP processors that handle all other receiver tasks.  Not
sure who might have led you to believe that there were dedicated or
specialized NR processors.  As far as I know, NR is implemented as some form
of LMS alogrithm, as it is in most other radios in the ham market.

Grant/NQ5T



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