Abstract:
A speech-coding or scrambling system which operates by changing a speech signal by means of an inverter signal, also incorporates a tone signal outside of the speech frequency band to inform the receiver that the speech is being coded. Upon the receipt of the tone signal the receiver automatically operates to decode the received signal.
Abstract:
A channel scanning and priority channel monitoring circuit for a multifrequency receiver utilizes a bistable multivibrator to control the local oscillator frequencies corresponding to the channels, with one output of the multivibrator corresponding to the priority channel. A low-frequency free-running oscillator and a pair of monostable delay circuits, having a relatively short time interval, produce pulses to change the state of the multivibrator. With no signals being detected on any of the channels, the multivibrator is controlled by the monostable delay circuits to provide a relatively rapid sequential scanning of the channels. Detection of a carrier on a nonpriority channel, however, shifts control of the bistable multivibrator to the free-running oscillator to reset the bistable multivibrator to scan the priority channel, whereupon control is returned to the monostable circuits. Provision is made for attenuating the audio output whenever a nonpriority channel is being received and for increasing the sensitivity of the squelch circuit whenever a nonpriority channel is being scanned.
Abstract:
The signal control circuit utilizes an active, bandpass filter having a first resonant frequency virtually equal to the frequency of a first input signal selected thereby. An amplitude responsive circuit changes the resonant frequency of the filter to a second predetermined value during the times that the instantaneous magnitude of the output signal, provided in response to the first input signal, exceeds a threshold level. This action maintains the amplitude of the output signal at a substantially constant level even though the amplitude of the first input signal is varying. Moreover, the threshold level and second resonant frequency are chosen so that the phase difference between the first input signal and the output signal remains relatively constant even though the frequency of the first input signal is varying so that the output signal can be damped out by a second input signal having a selected phase relationship to the first input signal.
Abstract:
An oscillator circuit for providing a constant amplitude output tone includes a differential amplifier and a frequency-selective, feedback network. A regulating circuit is connected from an oscillator output to the feedback network, and as the output of the oscillator exceeds a predetermined threshold, the regulating circuit develops a regulating signal which is proportional to the amplitude of the output and opposite phase to the feedback signal. This regulating signal and the feedback signal interreact to provide a composite feedback signal whose amplitude is inversely proportional to the oscillator output to thereby hold the output at a preselected level. The oscillator is operable to provide a predetermined phase shift in the output tone.
Abstract:
A radio receiver which incorporates dual squelch systems, one system operated by the carrier and the other operated by a coded tone signal, is responsive to the tone signal of the proper frequency to operate the tone coded squelch system and temporarily disable the carrier squelch system when the receiver is in the carrier squelch mode. By permitting the tone coded squelch system to disable the carrier squelch when the proper tone signal is received, noise bursts or squelch tails at the end of a transmission are eliminated.