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 selective calling system includes a transmitter having first and second signal generators providing sinusoidal and rectangular signals which are combined to form a modulated calling signal. Each receiver of the system includes a first demodulator which demodulates the modulated calling signal and a second demodulator which demodulates the rectangular signal. A frequency selective device connects the first demodulator to a first input of an AND gate and a repetition rate selective device connects the second demodulator to a second input of the AND gate. If the demodulated frequency and repetition rate are within the passbands of the devices, the AND gate provides a turn-on signal which allows primary information to be reproduced by the receiver. The system can be modified so that auxiliary information is transferred to the receivers by the calling signal.