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I wanted to echo this.

NASA would not have used this technique of they had today's signal proccessing/bandwidth/resources. They used these clever tricks because that was the only option.

These clever tricks have major downsides. They are more fragile and easier to get wrong. Just like code today, the most clever code is often the least maintainable.



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