Dual pilot redundant AFC system for satellite communications sys

Details Dual pilot redundant AFC system for satellite communications sys Dual pilot redundant AFC system for satellite communications sys

1973-10-31

1976-03-02

Griffin, Robert L.

Communications: radio wave antennas

Antennas

Balanced doublet - centerfed

325 2, 325 3, 325 58, 343100ST, 343179, H04B 720

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039421155

ABSTRACT:
A pilot signal for implementing automatic frequency control in a satellite communications system is continuously transmitted by a designated ground station. Its frequency lies in the middle of the communications band so that it will undergo the same frequency shifts or distortions as the overall communications signal. A second ground station monitors the presence of the pilot signal, and if it is lost for a predetermined time, this second station then transmits the pilot signal to ensure the continuation of the AFC function throughout the system. If the pilot signal is lost at the second station, however, an uncertainty might exist as to whether the failure is in the designated ground station or the second ground station. To resolve this uncertainty a secondary pilot signal, having a frequency different from but in the same band as the primary pilot signal, is transmitted by a third ground station. If the second station then looses the primary pilot signal while still receiving the secondary pilot signal, it knows that the failure is in the designated ground station and therefore begins to transmit the pilot signal. A fourth ground station may monitor both the primary and secondary pilot signals, and transmit the secondary pilot signal if the latter is lost while the primary pilot signal is still being received, thus providing a back-up capability for the secondary pilot signal.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3065420 (1962-11-01), Close
patent: 3418579 (1968-12-01), Hultberg

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