Paul_KD7HB:
Absolutely different, but have become interchangeable with the demise of telephone modems.
Baud refers to the sine wave of the tone used to send data via modems. The old 300 baud and 600 baud modems encoded one bit per single sine wave. There the bit rate and baud rate were the same.
More generally, baud refers to the Symbol rate. Simple modulation schemes such as baseband NRZ, PSK, and FSK encode one bit per symbol. Thus, with these schemes the baud rate is equal to the symbol rate. More sophisticated modulation format such as QPSK, nQAM, and PAM pack multiple bits per symbol.
The advantage of these schemes is that they increase the bit rate (for the same symbol rate) without increasing the required channel bandwidth. The disadvantage (besides complexity) is that they require a higher SNR to achieve the same Bit Error Rate performance. Or, equivalently, they have a poorer BER at the same SNR as the simpler techniques. This can be overcome with the use of Forward Error Correction coding.
gfvalvo:
1 Start Bit + 8 Data Bits + 1 Stop Bit = 10 bits per data byte transmitted.
2400 bits / second
How many bytes you sending?
This answer came closest to my initial question: how long does it take to transmit a specific number of bytes at 2400baud.
Transmitting this message: 100,109.89,11.00,5,10,B and one startmarker, and one endmarker transmitted as a string (each character = 1 byte) at 1200 baud takes +/-225ms. See attachment (blue = TX, yellow = RX).
Edit: This is using HC-12 radio's set at 1200 baud for the serial link.
Transmitting this message: 100,109.89,11.00,5,10,B and one startmarker, and one endmarker transmitted as a string (each character = 1 byte) at 1200 baud takes +/-225ms.
christop:
Whatever is transmitting the bytes might be leaving a small gap between each byte, or it might be configured to transmit two stop bits instead of one.
HC12 datasheet says "8 databits, no parity, one stopbit"
brice3010:
Are bitrate and baud rate the same, as I read differently?
Bitrate and baud are often the same, and in most practical purposes. A bit is either a 1 or 0. In a communication, such as TTL or CMOS logic, there are also 2 states. In RS-232, 2 states for valid data, other states considered invalid. However, if one were to create a communication system in which 10 states existed, say tones, for example, data could be sent in decimals and baud would not equal bit rate.