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Hammarlund SP-600, help me to identify which version is...
"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message ... Dave J. wrote: Just out of interest, how long has diversity encoding been around? I thought of it as relatively modern, and I've only read about it from the POV of digital signals. Is there anywhere anyone'd recommend for a bit of research? Something semi chronological would be nice. Back to the thirties at least. Earlier diversity systems were comparatively crude, though, normally just looking at two antenna systems separated in space or in polarization and picking the one with the higher AGC voltage. This can give a remarkable improvement in dealing with ionospheric fading, though. Was standard practice for remote shortwave links on broadcast networks. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." Space diversity is indeed that old but there were some fairly sophisticated methods such as the Bell Labs MUSA Multiple Unit Steerable Antenna which could be varied in vertical angle electrically. RCA was using triple space diversity receiving systems at the Riverhead N.Y. receiving station in the 1930s. I suspect one could find a lot of literature in the old Jornal of the IRE and probably also the Bell Labs Technical Journal and RCA Review although I don't have specific citations. Around the 1950s Leonard Kahn and others worked out means of combining the sidbands of a conventional AM or double sideband suppressed carrier signal using a synchronous detector. In effect this was a sort of frequency diversity. It also reduced distortion due to selective fading since it regenerated the carrier locally. -- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles WB6KBL |
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Hammarlund SP-600, help me to identify which version is...
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Richard Knoppow wrote:
Around the 1950s Leonard Kahn and others worked out means of combining the sidbands of a conventional AM or double sideband suppressed carrier signal using a synchronous detector. In effect this was a sort of frequency diversity. It also reduced distortion due to selective fading since it regenerated the carrier locally. Wasn't it Webb at GE that was doing the work on DSB? That's the name on the synchronous detector article in "CQ" in the late fifties, and that was either preceeded or followed by an article about DSBsc in general. And John Costas of course came up with the Costas Loop for receiving AM, and I see he was at GE in the fifties when he came up with the Loop. Michael VE2BVW |
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Hammarlund SP-600, help me to identify which version is...
"Michael Black" wrote in message mple.net... On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Richard Knoppow wrote: Around the 1950s Leonard Kahn and others worked out means of combining the sidbands of a conventional AM or double sideband suppressed carrier signal using a synchronous detector. In effect this was a sort of frequency diversity. It also reduced distortion due to selective fading since it regenerated the carrier locally. Wasn't it Webb at GE that was doing the work on DSB? That's the name on the synchronous detector article in "CQ" in the late fifties, and that was either preceeded or followed by an article about DSBsc in general. And John Costas of course came up with the Costas Loop for receiving AM, and I see he was at GE in the fifties when he came up with the Loop. Michael VE2BVW You may be right. GE did a lot of early work on SSB and DSB. GE had a very fine research department until John Welsch killed it. -- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles WB6KBL |
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