THE LINCOLN EXPERIMENTAL TERMINAL SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM,

Abstract

The design of the Lincoln Experimental Terminal (LET) includes a digital signal processing system which is compatible with both dispersive and non-dispersive satellite communications media. It provides three data rates: 9600 bits/ sec, to accommodate a voice-excited vocoder with telephone quality inputs; 4800 bits/sec, to accommodate a pitch-excited vocoder with dynamic microphone input; and 200 bits/sec for teletype only. Both of the speech rates allow two multiplexed teletype channels. The basic modulation system combines frequency-hopped signals with sequential encoding and decoding. Antenna pointing, range and Doppler predictions, and data multiplexing and demultiplexing are performed using a Univac 1218 digital computer. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 16, 1964
Accession Number
AD0450689

Entities

People

  • I. L. Lebow
  • P. R. Drouilhet Jr.

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Coding
  • Communications Techniques
  • Computers
  • Data Rate
  • Decoding
  • Digital Computers
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Message Decoding
  • Message Processing
  • Modulation
  • Multiplexing
  • Satellite Communications
  • Signal Processing
  • Terminals

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.

Technology Areas

  • Space