With a dozen or so MAC TV signals available from satellites such as
TV-SAT2, TDF-1, Olympus, Astra and, shortly, BSB, it is surprising to
note that relatively few electronics engineers and satellite-TV
reception enthusiasts appear to be aware of essential technical
backgrounds to MAC. In line with the theme of the month,
communications, this article looks at one aspect of the MAC
transmission standard that has received little attention so far:
duobinary encoding and decoding of the sound and data block.
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