摘要 |
The invention relates to a method for determining one or more characteristics of a line, in addition to a device for determining one or more characteristics of a line that can be directly or indirectly connected to the device. Said device is configured in such a way that it can trigger the emission of a test signal on the line and determine the line characteristic or characteristics from the echo signal received via the line. The device has a signal transformation unit for transforming the echo signal or a signal obtained from said echo signal into the frequency range, the line characteristic or characteristics being determined from a vector that represents the intensity of individual spectral fractions of the frequency range. The invention is characterised in that the device has s signal processing unit, to which the untransformed echo signal or the untransformed signal obtained therefrom is fed, and that the line characteristic or characteristics is/are determined from the comparison of the vector that represents the intensity of individual spectral fractions of the frequency range with several model vectors. The signal processing unit processes the echo signal or the signal obtain therefrom in such a way that model vectors can be chosen so that they are at the greatest possible euclidic distances from one another. |