ATS-1 VHF COMMUNICATIONS EXPERIMENTATION.

Abstract

Eight flight tests were conducted utilizing the Applications Technology Satellite-1 (ATS-1) to obtain characteristic data of VHF communications links via satellite relay for use in over-ocean air traffic control subsystem design studies. Measurements of signal level, signal plus noise-to-noise ratio, multipath propagation, voice intelligibility, adjacent channel interference, and 75, 1200, and 2400 bits-per-second digital communications performance were obtained. Results of the tests are discussed in the report and reviewed in the 'Summary of Results' section. In general, overall communications reliability using the ATS-1 link was considered marginal. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0707444

Entities

People

  • F. W. Jefferson

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Traffic
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Digital Communications
  • Intelligibility
  • Measurement
  • Multipath Transmission
  • Reliability
  • Traffic

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites