A combined analog/digital hybrid multi/channel airborne satellite communication system

Author

El-Rayes, N.A. ; Abdelrazik, M.A.

Author_Institution

E-Systems Inc., Greenville, TX, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

24-28 June 1991

Abstract

Summary form only given. A technical description of a multichannel airborne analog/digital satellite communication system is presented. The system design required the combining of a 60 W class-A HPA and a 200 W class-C HPA onto an eight-element helical array antenna to provide analog and digital multichannel communication services to aircraft that include telephone, data, and TTY. The analog portion of the system uses FM techniques to provide one channel of high quality voice. The digital portion uses A-QPSK (quadrature phase-shift keying)/A-BPSK (binary phase shift keying) modulation schemes with appropriate forward error correction to provide toll quality multichannel voice capability to the aircraft. World-wide communication coverage is provided by the INMARSAT network of satellites and ground stations.<>

Keywords

aircraft communication; antenna arrays; phase shift keying; satellite relay systems; A-QPSK/A-BPSK; FM; INMARSAT network; TTY; aircraft communication; binary phase shift keying; class-A HPA; class-C HPA; data; eight-element helical array antenna; forward error correction; high quality voice channel; multichannel airborne analog/digital satellite communication system; quadrature phase-shift keying; telephone; world-wide communication; Aircraft; Antenna arrays; Binary phase shift keying; Digital modulation; Helical antennas; Phase modulation; Phase shift keying; Satellite communication; Telephony; Teleprinting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 1991. AP-S. Digest

Conference_Location

London, Ontario, Canada

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0144-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.1991.175160

Filename

175160