On Nov 4, 2020, at 7:52 AM, Kristoff <kristoff@skypro.be> wrote:
Jef,
Concerning the term "slope". Well, I also have my doubts about it. I
think that for a lot of people, this would create the assumption that
the signal then goes from the 'i' value to the 'q' value in a
straight line, which is -as we know- not the case.
Sometimes it helps to -at first- give a very basic mental image of
something, and -at the end, when people understand the topic-
"correct" that image with a more correct one, or just point them to
some youtube video that explains the topic in more detail.
Anycase,this is indeed all an interesting exercise in braking down
concepts into very small steps.
The amateur-radio community is a bit strange as most people do have a
technical background, but for a large number of hams, that is mainly
based on assumptions or "that's what they said in the ham-radio
courses", without understanding the full technical details,
especially topics that are highly based on math.
For most hams, "SDR" is just "that piece of software you install on
your computer to look at waterfall graphs".
So we have a very long way to go. :-)
73
kristoff - ON1ARF
On 4/11/2020 02:21, Jeff Long wrote:
It's more important to give people some mental picture than to make
sure it's completely correct. But, I would not use the "slope"
terminology. The important things are, as you've said, (1) with the
complex type, you can have a signal at baseband that is not
symmetric, and (2) the price for this is doubling the amount of data
needed. The signal you deal with at baseband is the same signal that
is seen centered on the RF carrier.
I don't see a great way to talk about "phase" without going into the
math. It is important to get into "phase" when you talk about any
modulation fancier than slow FSK.
Good luck. Hope you find the right balance between useful,
digestible, and correct.
On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 7:20 PM David Hagood <david.hagood@gmail.com
<mailto:david.hagood@gmail.com>> wrote:
I am sorrowful that you have decided you are going to stick with an
explanation that is fundamentally incorrect. I know how direct
conversion systems work - I design the software for them for a
living.
What you are basing your mental model on is an optimization for
the case
where the system is both sub-sampling the signal and going digital in
the same operation. However, in many extremely high sample rate
systems,
the signal is brought down to baseband by mixing it with analog
quadrature signals - that's the place where I and Q come from - and I
assure you the only "delay by 90 degrees" is in the creation of the
quadrature LO signals, not in the sampling of the actual data. But
I've
been around the Sun enough times to know that since you have decided
upon this course and don't seem to want to change, there's no
point in
continuing to try to help.