I’ll use this page to record the Comment of the Month winners, if any, for months starting with January 2023. I link to a specific comment in the list below, but typically each winner has made multiple comments, so search them up!
Inaugural Winners for 2015-2022: John Macdonald and Clint. They both have multiple excellent comments.
January 2023: Stephan Frisbie.
February 2023: Dylan Gormley. This is an ‘all-around’ commenter award for both great technical comments/questions and for a much-needed dose of comic relief.
March 2023: Michael Foobaz.
April 2023: None.
May 2023: None.
June 2023: Mansoor and Sandford. Mansoor for good comments on calculating the power of a random-process model, which touches on the cycloergodicity issue. Sandford for great persistence in getting his second-order CSP code going, which is the fundamental purpose of the CSP Blog. Thanks to you both, and refrigerator magnets are on the way!
July 2023: None.
August 2023: Andreas for probing comments and questions regarding my ongoing machine-learning work with the estimable John Snoap.
September-December 2023: None.
January 2024: Roee Ronkin for good questions about the cyclostationarity of direct-sequence spread-spectrum signals as well as sums of such signals with, possibly, different delays, phases, and frequency offsets.
May 2024: Steve Riggs for an excellent back-and-forth with me on signal generation and spectral-correlation estimation. Look at the comments on the How to Obtain Help post.
July 2024: Cal for questions on rectangular-pulse BPSK generation and on various CSP estimators–Cal was really getting into the details, and his questions will very likely help a lot of others get started with CSP.
August 2024: Jakub (jkasny) for detailed questions involving the estimation of cyclic moments and cumulants. See the exchange in the Comments section of the Estimation of Cyclic Moments and Cumulants post.
September-October 2024: None.
November 2024: Antonio for helping me find a bug in some code I used to prepare plots in the square-root raised-cosine post.
December 2024: None.
January 2025: Garrett for a nice discussion of the current state of affairs regarding using supervised learning to train neural networks for modulation recognition. Split over comments on The Domain Expertise Trap and a post on My Papers [54] with John Snoap.
Some readers’ pictures of their magnets in situ:
- Me in Monterey, along with magnets from Alpine Method Technologies and WaveWalkerDSP.com (and Jazz 24!):
- Fabio Casagrande Hirono in Hawaii:
- Mike on the East Coast:
- Michael Szalkowski (Alpine Method Technologies) in Virginia:
- Stephan Frisbee in Maryland:
Dylan Gormley in Illinois (what did I tell you about the comic relief!!):
Mansoor (magnet is in good company):
Sandford in Australia:
Andreas in Germany (with bonus meme):
My number-three son’s waterbottle (I have stickers too!):
Cal with pups:
Garrett with some magnets to keep mine company:
You could be next!