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icw on July 19, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why it takes so long to get data back from New Hor...

Forward error correction can add significant overhead. From the specification of the RF subsystem posted earlier (http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~tcase/NH%20RF%20Telecom%20Sys%2...), 5/6 of the data returned is redundant.

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