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I became aware today through fred harris' excellent presentation at the DSP Online Conference (https://www.dsponlineconference.com/) of the harris-Moerder pulse shaping filter which was published 15 years ago: https://www.wirelessinnovation.org/assets/Proceedings/2005/2005-sdr05-2-2-03-harris.pdf

This filter reportedly results in an order of magnitude lower EVM for the same number of taps, and importantly significantly reduced rejection of adjacent channels, but to my understanding isn't commonly used since the Root-Raised Cosine filter is so baked into our standards.

Is anyone aware of actual use of this alternate pulse shaping filter and does anyone have further experience with it? Are there any other reasons, now 15 years later, that this hasn't been more widely adopted?

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    $\begingroup$ Dan, I wish I had an answer. My best guess is that, of all the "decent" pulse shapes, the raised cosine, while far from the best, is simply good enough. That and years of inertia has prevented industrial innovation in this field, as far as I'm aware. $\endgroup$
    – MBaz
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    $\begingroup$ I don't have an answer either but was similarly intrigued when I came across the same filter when reading some of fred harris's old papers (he'll be glad we're using the appropriate case). Part of it is surely existing hardware and systems that use rrc so future hardware does the same to stay compatible and follow what works. I'm sure eventually it will show up in open-source works but I know a lot of times what gets implemented comes down to what textbook ref you follow. I do think gnuradio and the like would be great places to start putting in these uncommon ideas to experiment with. $\endgroup$
    – user67081
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    $\begingroup$ Liguid-dsp implements: void liquid_firdes_hM3(unsigned int _k, unsigned int _m, float _beta, float _dt, float * _h) ..... github.com/jgaeddert/liquid-dsp/blob/master/src/filter/src/… $\endgroup$
    – Juha P
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    $\begingroup$ OK, made it an answer. $\endgroup$
    – Juha P
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    $\begingroup$ I have a perfect answer to this question but people will find it unacceptable. Therefore, I just mention it in a comment: "Science advances one funeral at a time." German physicist Max Planck! $\endgroup$
    – QMC
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Liguid-dsp implements root-Nyquist harris-Moerder (hM-3) filter using Parks-McClellan algorithm as :

void [liquid_firdes_hM3][2](unsigned int _k,
                            unsigned int _m,
                            float _beta,
                            float _dt,
                            float * _h)
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