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Skywave adaptable network transceiver apparatus

US5204855A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 9, 1991
Grant dateApr 20, 1993
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Expiry dateJan 9, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B7/12
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a skywave adaptable communications network, the time required to initiate communications between two transceivers can often be an important factor where the propagation characteristics of signals at various frequencies vary drastically with time. The present invention improved upon the prior art by accepting the first frequency that it hears as a communication frequency when two nodes are attempting to communicate from a known list of frequencies to be transmitted at known times. The system then adaptively changes to better quality signals as these better quality signals are received, analyzed and compared with present working frequency signals.

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