[Space] Audio

[nils at shkoo.com]

I think it'll be tough to avoid them interfering with each other except if 
we have some kind of synchronization mechanism.

I think that if we try to configure the clocks to be at the same rate, 
we'll get pretty close but not exact. Then when they start interfering 
with each other it will take longer for them to stop.

I think the best thing to do would be to set the intervals as follows:

opentracker: 31 seconds

g1: 127 seconds

Guestimating the transmit time as 1 second, that way they will only line 
up on the same second once every 3937 seconds, so most of the beacons 
should be fine even if the timing isn't exact.

If we tried to line them up on 30 seconds and it ended up with the 
following intervals:

opentracker: 30 seconds
g1: 30.1 seconds

Then when they line up, they would transmit on the same second for 10 
beacons in a row, so we could lose a whole 5 minutes of transmitted data.

Ideally, the thing to do would be to make them able to listen to telle 
when the other is transmitting. I'm pretty sure the opentracker can do 
collision avoidance of some sort, but the android code not so much right 
now.

-nils

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Albert Alexander wrote:

> Sounds right to me, but I'll defer to Nils. I know they do not transmit
> simultaneously.
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I think the idea we had was that they were each sending at the same
>> interval.  If they maintain even reasonably good clocks and aren't aligned,
>> they shouldn't ever overlap.  I think their duty cycle is low enough that
>> this wouldn't be a problem.
>>
>> (I'm assuming that you mean amateur radio, not an actual walkie-talkie,
>> here?)
>>
>> Christie
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>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Albert Alexander <
>> albert.alexander at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Nope, they transmit at separate times. We could use a fet to switch
>>> sources but that's more parts and wires.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Greg Stramback <grog at piratelabs.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm making the assumption that we're expecting a certain percentage of
>>>> garbled / unreadable packets due to two audio sources being combined?
>>>>
>>>> -g-
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Albert Alexander <
>>>> albert.alexander at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The walkie-talkie is getting audio from two sources. I suggested using a
>>>>> splitter to combine the sources, but this will load down the output
>>>>> transistors unless we add two resistors in series before the splitter. 10k
>>>>> is fine. This will attenuate the current of each signal. We could use a
>>>>> summing amp if we want to avoid the attenuation, or we could just turn up
>>>>> the volume.
>>>>>
>>>>> Will test G1 audio out AC coupling tonight after 5moF
>>>>>
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