Airborne Paging Demonstration

Abstract

Personal pagers have found wide-spread use in the commercial world, allowing people on the road or away from their office to be contacted with a simple message, often to "call home." The utility of this service clearly translates to the battlefield. However, the tactical battlefield does not come equipped with the large infrastructure that is used by the commercial systems. For the battlefield, either a satellite-born or an airborne transmitter can be used to activate near-commercial paging receivers. During an earlier program, paging from military communications satellites at UHF was demonstrated. However, the available signal margin was too low for reliable paging, particularly into structures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 25, 2000
Accession Number
ADA375196

Entities

People

  • Charles W. Niessen

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airborne
  • Aircrafts
  • Altitude
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Computers
  • Concrete
  • Demonstrations
  • Electronic Mail
  • Elevation
  • Low Elevation
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Naval Air Stations
  • Radio Signals
  • Standards
  • Stations
  • Transmitters

Readers

  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space
  • Space - Satellites