A signal demultiplexer for Meteosat primary data user stations

Digital signals received from the Meteosat satellite consist of a serial bit stream which contains the output of the satellite´s spin scan radiometer after computer processing at Darmstadt, Germany. This paper describes a system which recognizes the particular format being transmitted, picks out a chosen channel from the data, and turns it into a form suitable for display on a facsimile recorder or similar instrument.