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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Evidently, snagging a 500 BPS tone burst and getting all the
numbers right is not easy in software. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Better check and make sure you got it right so you don’t
mix up a nuclear war with an Amber alert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>For best receiver decoder
performance it is recommended that a software algorithm confirm that at least
two of the three header code transmissions are identical before declaring a
match or valid code and performing the preprogrammed task. If this test fails,
do a bit-by-bit check of the three transmissions and attempt to reconstruct a
valid code by comparing the bits in each position in each header code
transmission and accepting as the valid bit that bit which appears in two of
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Oh – that sounds easy …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>There are some IC decoders but they are pretty fancy –
perhaps some of the radios that offer this feature use one of these chips to do
most of the signal processing in the radio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Example CMX7031<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><cite><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.cmlmicro.com/products/twoway/previews/cmx7031pp_4.pdf">www.cmlmicro.com/products/twoway/previews/<b>cmx7031</b>pp_4.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></cite></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><cite><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ken</span></cite><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
app_rpt-users-bounces@qrvc.com [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@qrvc.com] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Brian Wingfield<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 22, 2010 6:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> app_rpt-users@qrvc.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [App_rpt-users] can App_Rpt decode SAME weather codes?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>The url to the S.A.M.E. spec is
below. Doesn't look like there is any magic to it.<br>
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<a href="http://www.nws.noaa.gov/directives/010/pd01017012b.pdf">http://www.nws.noaa.gov/directives/010/pd01017012b.pdf</a><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Ken <<a
href="mailto:ke2n@cs.com">ke2n@cs.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Well - there is a windoz program that does it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><a
href="http://www.brothersoft.com/tonedecoder.net-standard-edition-211249.html"
target="_blank">http://www.brothersoft.com/tonedecoder.net-standard-edition-211249.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>but it is rather pricy ... apparently it is hard to do ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'>Ken<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Jim Duuuude <<a href="mailto:telesistant@hotmail.com" target="_blank">telesistant@hotmail.com</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:jrorke@cogeco.ca" target="_blank">jrorke@cogeco.ca</a>;
app_rpt mailing list <<a href="mailto:app_rpt-users@qrvc.com" target="_blank">app_rpt-users@qrvc.com</a>><br>
Sent: Thu, Jul 22, 2010 2:28 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] can App_Rpt decode SAME weather codes?<o:p></o:p></p>
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as opposed to DIFFERENT weather alert protocol...<br>
or perhaps SIMILAR..... :-) :-)<br>
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JIM WB6NIL<br>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:12:14 -0400<br>
> From: <a href="mailto:jrorke@cogeco.ca" target="_blank">jrorke@cogeco.ca</a><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:app_rpt-users@qrvc.com" target="_blank">app_rpt-users@qrvc.com</a><br>
> Subject: [App_rpt-users] can App_Rpt decode SAME weather codes?<br>
> <br>
> Hi All just wondering if App_Rpt can or does support of decoding the <br>
> SAME weather alert protocol and signaling??<br>
> <br>
> Thanks,<br>
> <br>
> Jon VA3RQ<br>
> <br>
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