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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The funny thing about RF work is how casually a few orders of magnitudes gets thrown around. 10 dB fudge factors for assorted losses are quite common.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Hey boss, we have sincere troubles, SNR is off by too much.
how much?
20dB
ah, then we're good, that's so ridiculous it's def. a gain problem in your measurement setup

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Experimentalists: understood, say no more.

Theorists: ok, show me the Hamiltonian...including the noise terms.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Too real

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where was the experiment run? On a battlefield?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Setting up a bird listening device a few meters off an active runway and no filter for engine sounds.

Play back is of course volume tuned for the bird chirps when processing data

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Nah... It's just that "usually calculations overestimate the experimental values".

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Sources of error: psychosomatic popping noise interfered with measurements when viewing image