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Repeater trunking system

US4360927A · kind A · utility

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30Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMar 12, 1979
Grant dateNov 23, 1982
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 12, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W84/08
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Arrangement for establishing communication between a first mobile radio station and a second mobile radio station through a repeater over a radio frequency channel selected from a plurality of such channels. In an idle mode, a mobile station searches the channels for a predetermined group signal identifying it as belonging to a particular group of mobile stations. When that predetermined group signal is received on a channel, the mobile station is enabled on that channel so that it can communicate with a call originating mobile station belonging to the same group. In a call originate mode, a mobile station searches for an idle or unused channel identified by the absence of a busy signal. When an idle channel is found, the call originating station transmits a busy signal. The repeater, hearing the busy signal, transmits an acquisition signal. This acquisition signal is detected by the call originating mobile station which thereafter transmits a predetermined group signal for enabling other mobile stations in the common group on that same channel.

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