Re: Copy-and-paste error on the page for the "antenna noise" field?

Johannes Berg <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Jan 2023 08:46:14 +0100
Newsgroups org.netbsd.radiotap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2023-01-11 at 19:16 -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> The page for the "antenna noise" field, at
>=20
> 	http://www.radiotap.org/fields/Antenna%20noise.html
>=20
> describes it as
>=20
> 	RF noise power at the antenna. This field contains a single
> signed 8-bit value, which indicates the RF signal power at the
> antenna, in decibels difference from 1mW.
>=20
> It looks as if this was copied and pasted from the "antenna signal"
> page, with the first instance of "signal" replaced by noise, but the
> second instance left as "signal".

Hm. Yeah, seems like? This is really old :-)

You could argue that noise is also some kind of "RF signal" but yeah, it
seems to make sense to change that.

Any other opinions?

johannes