At 03:12 PM 10/19/00 +0100, Martin Hill wrote:
>Not having a go at you personally David, buy why is it that people
>talk about bandwidth when they mean data rate?  Bandwidth is
>measured in Hz.

Because bandwidth is the limiting factor in how many symbol transitions you
can make per second.  Bit rate is dependent on how many bits you can encode
into the modulation scheme.

In any given radio service, you are limited to a maximum bandwidth.

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