Multilevel SCPC System Design

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / November 14-16, 1978 / Hyatt House Hotel, Los Angeles, California === A method of assigning carrier levels in an SCPC system with mixed earth station G/Ts is developed which optimizes system performance for uniformly spaced and randomly assigned ca...

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Main Authors: Horstein, M., LaFlame, D. T.
Other Authors: Hughes Aircraft Company
Language:en_US
Published: International Foundation for Telemetering 1978
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/609776
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/609776
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Summary:International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / November 14-16, 1978 / Hyatt House Hotel, Los Angeles, California === A method of assigning carrier levels in an SCPC system with mixed earth station G/Ts is developed which optimizes system performance for uniformly spaced and randomly assigned carrier frequencies. The optimum transponder backoff is shown to be identical to that for a system of uniform carriers in which the (common) earth station (G/T)⁻¹ is a weighted average of the different (G/T)⁻¹ values in the mixed system. With the transponder backoff determined, the carrier level to be transmitted to each station type is simply expressed in terms of the station G/T.