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- Path: sparky!uunet!esseye!arkusins
- From: arkusins@esseye.si.com (Andy Arkusinski)
- Subject: Re: GPS questions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.135140.5815@esseye.si.com>
- Keywords: GPS
- Organization: Smiths Industries
- References: <greg.714049408@coombs>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:51:40 GMT
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- In <greg.714049408@coombs> greg@coombs.anu.edu.au (Greg Price) writes:
-
- >1) How does the receiver separate out the different signals from a number
- > of satellites if they are all transmitting on the same frequency (using
- > 180 degree phase modulation) and using one non-directional antenna?
-
- >2) The satellite has an accurate internal clock, and the receiver has
- > another internal clock which it syncs with the satellites, and uses
- > the propagation delay to determine this distance. How do you initially
- > sync the receiver clock with the satellites from scratch?
-
- Each GPS satellite transmits a course acquisition (C/A) code that is unique
- to the satellite. This code is a pseudorandom noise (PN) code that repeats
- every millisecond. PN codes have the attribute that the mathematical
- cross-correlation function between two PN codes is a large positive number
- when the two codes are identical, and close to zero otherwise.
- The receiver knows all the satellite PN codes and searches in time
- and frequency (frequency change is due to doppler shift) until it finds a
- match between the received signal and one of its stored PN codes. This
- allows it to synchronize its clock with the satellite and read the data in
- the rest of the transmitted signal.
- --
- Andy Arkusinski arkusinski@benzie.si.com
- Smiths Industries arkusinski@esseye.si.com
- Grand Rapids, MI
-