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- From: paulm@storcon (Paul Moreau)
- Subject: Re: Radio dreams
- Message-ID: <BuD6Lu.4z0@storcon>
- Sender: paulm@storcon (Paul Moreau)
- Organization: Storage Concepts, Inc.
- References: <1992Sep9.150729.4381@informix.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:25:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep9.150729.4381@informix.com>, robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg) writes:
- |> OK, set loose your electronic imagination.
- |>
- |> SUPPOSE all transmitters used the SAME frequency, sending out packets of digitally
- |> encoded signals. The receiver would look for a packet addressed to it with a
- |> digital code, and only pay attention to that packet.
- |>
- |> Everyone would have to time-share the same airwaves, so the packets would have to
- |> be brief, and there would have to be assurances that if there were, say, 25 planes
- |> up, nobody got bumped.
- |>
- |> One way would be to have a transmitter in the plane as well, sending back a
- |> "received" signal, so that the pilot's transmitter would re-send until it got a
- |> "received" back. But that's expensive and adds weight, etc.
- |>
- |> Instead, would it be possible to make the transmitted packets so brief that they
- |> could be broadcast repeatedly? Say, a .1 ms packet, sent every 5 ms, so that the
- |> chances of 4 or 5 packets in a row getting bumped by somebody elses radio would be
- |> small (true statistically?). That would assure that within 5x5 ms, or .025 seconds,
- |> a signal got received.
- |>
- |> Another possibility: a crude receiver inside the transmitter box. The transmitter
- |> would wait until it could detect no transmission from other pilots, then send out
- |> its .1 ms burst. This way there would be a lot fewer signals in the air during any
- |> given second. If 20 pilots each needed to send out 20 signals per second, that
- |> would only occupy .1X20X20ms or 40ms of each second.
- |>
- |> I am suggesting something like this instead of trying to eliminate interference
- |> between multiple frequencies.
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- Interference between the same freqs? Like 180 deg. phase cancelation?
- Now if all the Xmiter boxes just contained the Pulse info and connected
- to a single central Xmiter station, like a bunch of trainer boxes, I think
- your idea might work.
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- |> | Rob Weinberg | Workstation publications tech |
- |> | Email : robertw@informix.com | Graphic designer |
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- |> +================================+================================+
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