PILOT SIGNAL CONTROL SYSTEM THAT PRECOMPENSATES OUTGOING SIGNALS FOR DOPPLER SHIFT EFFECTS

摘要

1,119,056. Radio signalling. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES Ltd. 26 Nov., 1965 [27 Nov., 1964], No. 48246/64. Heading H4L. In a radio-communication system, e.g. a satellite system, subject to Doppler .effect, means are provided at a terminal station for generating a pilot frequency, and for transmitting and receiving the pilot frequency looped over the transmission path via a remote station, and variable delay and storage means controlled by the difference frequency between the pilot signal as transmitted and received compensate for the Doppler effect. As shown in Fig. 1, a frequency division multiplex baseband signal f s at station A is sampled at frequency S 1 , coded and fed to a p.c.m. store S. Frequency S 1 = 2n P 1 is supplied as the write-in frequency to the store S via frequency multiplier X 1 from an oscillator OP generating the pilot frequency P 1 . The signal stored at S is then converted back to the baseband frequency using a read-out frequency S 2 which is controlled in accordance with the Doppler shift and is slightly lower than S 1 if the satellite path is shortening and slightly higher if the path is increasing. The pilot frequency P 1 is combined with the baseband signal at F 1 and after frequency-modulation at Fm, the resulting radio signal is supplied via the satellite to station B. The pilot frequency received at station B is modified by the Doppler effect and is selected by filter F 2 and fed back via filter F 3 for transmission back to station A, during which it is further modified approximately to the same extent. At station A a frequency 3P 1 is supplied to modulator M 1 via multiplier X 2 from oscillator OP, together with the pilot signal from filter F 4 and the lower sideband is extracted and multiplied by n at X 3 and applied as the read-out frequency S 2 to the store S. The receiver includes a similar p.c.m. equipment and store R and the write-in frequency for this store is derived from the upper sideband provided by a modulator M 2 from the received pilot signal and the frequency P 1 from oscillator OP which is multiplied by n at X 4 . The readout frequency for store R is 2nP 1 , the same as the write-in frequency for the store S. In an alternative arrangement, Fig. 2 (not shown), each terminal station transmits a pilot signal which is looped back at the satellite to the sending station. In this system the write-in frequencies of the stores R and S are varied and the read-out frequencies fixed. Further compensation may be effected by a secondary pilot frequency fed into the input of store S which on return is filtered out of the output of store R and via a 90 degrees phase shifter is compared with the original secondary pilot signal to control known means to modify the read-out frequency of store S in Fig. 1 or the write-in frequency of the equivalent store in Fig. 2. A method of setting up the equipment initially, by forming a local loop at the transmitter-receiver also is described.