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Old 10-07-2015, 16:17   #2
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Re: 16QAM & 64QAM Interference

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Originally Posted by chambohambo View Post
Is it correct that 64QAM is more prone to interference than 16QAM?
In a nutshell, yes. As the modulation goes to a higher degree the guardband between identifiable states gets reduced.

Here is a phaser diagram for QAM16:



Each state is well defined with a large guard band, each point can move around quite a bit due to niose, propgation effects etc and still be easy to distinguish.

Contrast to QAM64:



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