On Jun 26, 9:41 pm, Steve Underwood <ste...@dis.org> wrote:

> In most practical cases, the result of the Gardner calculation should be
> thought of as little more than a "go left" or "go right" indication.
> Trying to use the actual magnitude of the result, rather than just its
> sign, works fine in a sterile noiseless model. In the real noisy world
> the impairments mean trying to scale the adjustment with the magnitude
> of the result can be less than spectacularly successful.
>
> Steve

This may work in some cases, but the safest approach is to derive the
"gain"
factor of the TED. This is especially important if the output is fed
into a
feedback tracking loop, since it can/will determine the performance/
stability
of the loop itself :-P.

Julius