Abstract:
A radio-frequency amplifier (50) has an impedance transformation network (66) with a control input (70) for controlling the transformation characteristic of the transformation network (66). The radio-frequency amplifier (50) amplifies an input signal to produce an amplified radio-frequency output signal to a load (68). The control circuit selects a power level for the output signal, in response to a control signal, by transforming the impedance of the load to a transformed impedance at the output of the radio-frequency amplifier, so that the efficiency of the radio-frequency amplifier is not substantially degraded as the power level for the output signal is changed.
Abstract:
An acknowledge back (ack-back) paging system (100) is provided which includes a central station (110) which transmits a group of message signals to a group of ack-back pagers (121, 122, ...) which are addressed as a group. The users of the group of addressed ack-back pagers indicate a response to their respective pagers thus providing ack-back data. The pagers in the group of addressed ack-back pagers (121, 122, ...) then simultaneously transmit back to the central station (110) their ack-back data on different frequency subbands, a different frequency sub-band being allocated to each of the pagers (121, 122, ...) in the group.