Single RF Carrier Time-Sharing by Remote Locations

• Main Author: Stadler, S. L.
• Other Authors: United Aircraft Corporation
• Language: en_US
• Published: International Foundation for Telemetering 1968
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/606509; http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/606509

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 08-11, 1968 / Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California === It is of vital national interest to know the essential real-time factors involved in the evaluation of an air attack versus a ground defense. This need led military planners to request the development of a computerized system to determine the victors and the vanquished in a war game on a par with an actual combat situation. From an engineering point of view, the evaluation system would permit all "combatants" full scope of operation and would not introduce, of itself, any "artificialities" into a complexity of split-second duels taking place over a wide geographical area. This paper discusses a unique time-division telemetry technique that was designed to resolve the data and control flow to and from remote locations, in this case, tactical aircraft. The actual system that evolved from this approach transfers all "aim and fire" events, coming from a group of aircraft engaged on a "mission", to a central communications and data processing facility. The control in the form of timing synchronization is sent from the facility to all aircraft. It should be noted that this time-sharing method could not utilize classical time-division multiplexing, e.g., PAM or PDM, since the test elements were all physically separate from one another (up to 120 miles). Preliminary test data is presented herein as an indication of the validity of this new technique. The paper concludes with a brief description of this method as applied to air and water pollution control and other posited applications.