{"title":"OmniTRACS: a commercial Ku-band mobile satellite terminal and its applicability to military mobile terminals","authors":"F. Antonio, K. Gilhousen, I. Jacobs, L. A. Weaver","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.1988.13477","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The technical characteristics of the OmniTRACS system are described. This system is the first operational mobile Ku-band satellite communications system and provides two-way message and position determination service to mobile terminals using existing Ku-band satellites. Interference to and from the system is minimized by the use of spread-spectrum techniques, together with low-power, low-data-rate transmissions. The applicability of this technology to implement a military mobile terminal operating over existing SHF satellites is also presented. Features discussed include the return- and forward-link modulating signals, the return-link power density, and the mobile-terminal hardware.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":66166,"journal":{"name":"军事通信技术","volume":"86 1","pages":"761-764 vol.3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1988-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"军事通信技术","FirstCategoryId":"1093","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.1988.13477","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The technical characteristics of the OmniTRACS system are described. This system is the first operational mobile Ku-band satellite communications system and provides two-way message and position determination service to mobile terminals using existing Ku-band satellites. Interference to and from the system is minimized by the use of spread-spectrum techniques, together with low-power, low-data-rate transmissions. The applicability of this technology to implement a military mobile terminal operating over existing SHF satellites is also presented. Features discussed include the return- and forward-link modulating signals, the return-link power density, and the mobile-terminal hardware.<>