An HF modem with increased immunity against multipath

Author

Loubser, J. ; Pauw, C.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Pretoria Univ., South Africa

fYear

1989

fDate

32682

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

29

Abstract

A direct-sequence spread-spectrum technique with low spreading factor is investigated for a 1200-baud modem with increased immunity against multipath propagation. Spread-spectrum techniques are used in conjunction with two DQPSK (differential quadrature phase shift keying) systems overlapping almost totally in the frequency domain. They system has increased immunity against multipath and reduced receiver complexity with not much more bandwidth than a system using a single PSK channel. The price being paid for this advantage is the loss of a few dBs on the noise performance of the system

Keywords

fading; modems; phase shift keying; radiowave propagation; spread spectrum communication; DQPSK systems; HF modem; differential quadrature phase shift keying; direct-sequence spread-spectrum technique; fading; frequency domain; increased immunity; low spreading factor; multipath propagation; Band pass filters; Bandwidth; Computational modeling; Finite impulse response filter; Frequency domain analysis; Hafnium; Matched filters; Modems; Spread spectrum communication; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Signal Processing, 1989. COMSIG 1989. Proceedings., Southern African Conference on

Conference_Location

Stellenbosch

Print_ISBN

0-87942-713-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMSIG.1989.129011

Filename

129011