Re:Cave-Link: Underground text communication system
by meibo on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @09:28AM
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The German version is more clear, "automatic query" is translated more literally as "automatic callback", by which I assume is meant that the device requests retransmission in case of an error.
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Re:Cave-Link: Underground text communication system
by Isamu on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @09:42AM
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Yes, if an error is detected there’s an automatic retry. I just want to remind others that checksums or any scheme has undetected errors, in which case a retry doesn’t happen. The human in the loop will say, that was garbled, could you repeat?
Again this design may be totally fine for this application. I am bringing this up for other engineers because people tend to hand-wave this away.