From: mgraffam@mhv.net
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 07:42:16 -0700 (PDT)
To: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Subject: Re: Noise source processing
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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, David Honig wrote:

> I have digitized FM radio hiss using a $10 transistor radio feeding
> into the LINE in of my soundcard.  The spectrum looks poisson
> with prominant, periodically spaced noise spikes.  It does not pass Diehard.

Yeah, I ran Diehard on it .. and that is why I wanted to find some
references on removing bias.

> But if you take the PARITY of 8 bits to get one bit, then assemble bytes
> out of these bits, the results pass Diehard.

This is a neat idea. I smiled when I read this in RFC1750

> 1. There are some nice spectrogramming shareware programs out there.

I haven't been able to find any for UNIX/X .. any recommendations
for Win31 (I'll try it with Wabi ;) software?

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:) Sweet. Thanks.

Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam@mhv.net)
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