Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g. – Directive – Including a satellite
Patent
1988-07-14
1990-05-22
Blum, Theodore M.
Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g.,
Directive
Including a satellite
H04B 7185
Patent
active
049281062
ABSTRACT:
A global positioning system (GPS) receiver having a common radio frequency section and a separate digital signal processing channel for each of a plurality of satellite signals which are simultaneously being received and processed by the receiver in order to calculate the position, velocity or other desired parameters of the receiver. The radio frequency section receives and processes both of the standard satellite signals on different frequency L1 and L2 carriers in order to provide the multi-channel digital section signals from which the relative phase of the carriers from each of the plurality of satellites may be determined. Particular mutually coherent local oscillator and digital clock frequencies are selected in order to minimize the complexity of the receiver without creating any undesired side effects. A high resolution relative phase measurement is made in each digital section by averaging the number of phase shifting pulses over a period of time that are generated by a phase locked loop that is locked onto an L-band carrier frequency, that average incremental phase being added to a base phase measurement obtained simultaneously in each of the digital processing channels.
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Ashjaee Javad
Helkey Roger J.
Lorenz Robert G.
Sutherland Robert A.
Ashtech Telesis, Inc.
Blum Theodore M.
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