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Multiple cavity tuning of a transmitter output in a communication system

US5263047A · kind A · utility

61Cited by
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24Claims
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Filing dateJul 2, 1992
Grant dateNov 16, 1993
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Expiry dateJul 2, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B2001/71362
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A base-site (304) combines baseband frequency hopping and fast-synthesizer hopping to produce an economical frequency hopping communication system (300). The base-site (304) combines the fast-synthesizer frequency hopping capability of transmitters (307-309) with baseband frequency hopping to produce a frequency hopping communication system (300) which serves the same number of subscribers served by transmitters (208-213) in a purely baseband hopping communication system (200), but with fewer transmitters (307-309). The implementation of frequency-selective cavities (312-317) having very low loss eliminates the need for wideband hybrid combiners (112-114), which in turn eliminates transmitted-signal power loss experienced in a purely fast-synthesizer frequency hopping communication system (100).

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