Od: ok1teh [ok1teh@karneval.cz]
Odesláno: 28. března 2005 18:56
Komu: 'Vladimír Petržílka'
Předmět: FW: [Moon-net] IEEE award for algorithm in JT65 decoder



-----Original Message-----
From: moon-net-bounces@list-serv.davidv.net
[mailto:moon-net-bounces@list-serv.davidv.net] On Behalf Of Joe Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 7:25 PM
To: Moon-Net
Subject: [Moon-net] IEEE award for algorithm in JT65 decoder

Dear EME Friends,

If you have been following details of the JT65 Protocol and the way it 
is implemented in WSJT, you may be interested in the URL given below.

Click on the link to see a short press release from the University of 
California at San Diego, announcing an award presented by the IEEE 
Information Theory Society to Professors Ralf Koetter and Alexander 
Vardy for "the top publication in information theory during the past two

years."

You may recall from reading the WSJT User's Guide that the JT65 decoder 
uses the Koetter-Vardy algorithm for soft decision Reed Solomon 
decoding.  This is the subject of the award-winning research paper.

In paragraph 5 of the press release you will see that the first 
practical tests of the K-V algorithm have been made by "Ham radio 
operators [who] used it to decode 'moonbounce' messages bounced off the 
Moon and back to Earth."

Of course, the operators they are referring to are YOU, dear colleagues!

  You are using truly state-of-the-art, 21st-Century technology, and the

academic world has noticed!

Here's the link:

	http://www.calit2.net/news/2004/11-09-04_vardy.html

With best wishes,
				-- 73, Joe, K1JT
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