{"title":"Radiated noise due to individual spark events in an internal combustion engine","authors":"W. Johnson, H.A. Piper, J.E. Amay","doi":"10.1109/VTC.1977.1622421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.1977.1622421","url":null,"abstract":"Due to increasing concern about emissions from internal combustion engines that cause radio frequency interference (RFI), investigations are being made to identify sources of the interference and into possible methods of remedying them. In the investigations, it is useful to have a system by which a correlation can be made between the time at which a particular event in the ignition sequence occurs and the RFI produced at that time. See. Fig. 1 for a definition of the ignition events. A system is described in the paper which permits this correlation by obtaining synchronization signals from the engine's ignition system. The synchronization signals are used to view the video output of an RFI receiver or spectrum analyzer as a function of time on an oscilloscope. This allows for discrimination of the ignition related RFI to a time resolution determined by the bandwidth of the receiver being used. A particular advantage of this technique is that it permits a more accurate assessment of the effect of individual component modification in a complex system and, in addition, it permits discrimination against RFI sources unrelated to the automobile being tested.","PeriodicalId":105804,"journal":{"name":"27th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134463559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personal radio planning at the federal communications commission","authors":"R. Stone","doi":"10.1109/VTC.1977.1622416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.1977.1622416","url":null,"abstract":"The FCC is now planning the next generation of personal radio services. Different service scenarios, consisting of one or more personal radio services, will be evaluated. These services will include the CB Radio Service and possibly some similar new services. The output of the evaluation process will be an assessment of the effects that any service change will have on user satisfaction, interference to other services, service demand, political acceptance, spectrum usage, cost of enforcement, user education and licensing, and the national economic and sociological climate. A series of analyses that are being managed by the FCC's Personal Radio Planning Group (PRPG) will provide the information and tools needed to perform the evaluation. The Commission will then use the results of the evaluation as an additional input to personal radio rule making proceedings.","PeriodicalId":105804,"journal":{"name":"27th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122889198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vehicular communications 2500 feet underground","authors":"R. Chufo","doi":"10.1109/VTC.1977.1622436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.1977.1622436","url":null,"abstract":"An underground communications system has been installed in Bethlehem Mines Corporation's Grace Iron Mine. The system provides communications for trackless vehicles and roving personnel without the requirement for a dispatcher. UHF/VHF repeaters are combined with coaxial \"leaky-feeder\" and twin-lead transmission line to form an operational and emergency communication network not previously found in mine communication systems. Key functions are evacuation alarming, personnel paging and communications with maintenance personnel and the underground ambulance.","PeriodicalId":105804,"journal":{"name":"27th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129115769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automatic vehicle location Dallas test results","authors":"A. Riccio","doi":"10.1109/VTC.1977.1622434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.1977.1622434","url":null,"abstract":"The FCC allocation of a wide band channel at 900 MHz for an Automatic Vehicle Monitoring (AVM) service presented the opportunity to Hazeltine to develop a vehicle locating system that can support 5,000 vehicles with high location accuracy information and rapid two-way data message transmissions. The system is configured to have variable up-date rate of information dependent on user requirements while providing a moving vehicle location accuracy of 300 feet (95% confidence). The basic system utilizes pulse trilateration with an automatic computer inverse hyperbolic location solution-The vehicles are polled sequentially and reply to multiple fixed receivers. Time difference of arrival data is collected and processed automatically. The solution of the intersection of hyperbolic lines via a Newton-Raphson iteration method is utilized in the computer location process. The receiver sites are configured in a triangular cell pattern lending the system to graceful growth capability. Test results obtained in the Phase I program performed for the City of Dallas have demonstrated the accuracy and general feasibility of the location technique in the Dallas Police Departments Southwest Patrol District. A single interrogation locating performance of 270 feet for 95% of the locations and 60 feet for 50% of the locations has been documented. Better than 90% of the randomly distributed vehicle positions were successfully located within the accuracy distribution limits. Moving vehicle plots showing the reported vehicle positions in relation to the traversed roads gives a pictorial presentation of the frequency of error vs. magnitude of error of the histogram plots.","PeriodicalId":105804,"journal":{"name":"27th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128244489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mospower: Will it be the universal replacement for high-frequency power bipolars?","authors":"E. Oxner","doi":"10.1109/VTC.1977.1622441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.1977.1622441","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":105804,"journal":{"name":"27th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117239021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobile radio performance for a 2-branch equal-gain combining receiver with correlated signals at the land site","authors":"W.C.-Y. Lee","doi":"10.1109/VTC.1977.1622442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.1977.1622442","url":null,"abstract":"It has generally been accepted that in a two-branch diversity receiver a near maximum diversity advantage is realized when the cross-correlation between the two branches is less than 0.7. Based on this figure, space diversity reception at the mobile presents little problem since the antenna separation distances that achieve this amount of decorrelation in the mobile environment are very small (≤20 centimeter at 850 MHz). However, the space diversity antenna separation requirement at the land site necessary to achieve the same amount of signal decorrelation is in the range of 10 wave-lengths or more at antenna elevations of 150 feet or greater. Therefore, a comprehensive characterization of the effect of changing the cross-correlation between the two received signals at the land site is important to effective system design. This paper describes the performance of the two-branch equal-gain diversity system as a function of the cross-correlation between the two received signals from the diversity antennas. The cumulative probability distributions, level crossing rates and duration of fades from a two-branch equal-gain combined diversity signal with variable correlation between the two branches are described.","PeriodicalId":105804,"journal":{"name":"27th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133829882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrated circuits for mobile radio","authors":"J. M. Bryant","doi":"10.1109/VTC.1977.1622439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.1977.1622439","url":null,"abstract":"Traditionally the integrated circuits used in radio transmitters and receivers have not been developed for radio communication applications but have been adapted to them from other uses such as television or broadcast receivers. Such integrated circuits do not meet the demanding specifications of today's mobile radio designs, and this paper considers some of the problems involved in the design of integrated circuits for mobile radio applications. The paper is illustrated by reference to several circuits recently developed by Plessey Semiconductors for use in mobile transceivers.","PeriodicalId":105804,"journal":{"name":"27th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130999730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Television interference associated with the proposed class E 220 MHz Citizens Radio Service","authors":"R. Brandel","doi":"10.1109/VTC.1977.1622419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.1977.1622419","url":null,"abstract":"One of the major factors contributing to the delay in FCC approval of the proposed 220 MHz Class E Citizens Radio Service has been the television interference issue. This paper analyzes the extent of TVI due to transmitter operation at 222 to 225 MHz. Three approaches are used in the analysis -- theoretical, experimental, and empirical. A \"radius of interference\" is obtained from each approach. Methods of reducing the interference realized are briefly considered.","PeriodicalId":105804,"journal":{"name":"27th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference","volume":"443 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123202269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy deposition in biological tissue near portable radio transmitters at VHF and UHF","authors":"Q. Balzano, O. Garay, R. Steel","doi":"10.1109/VTC.1977.1622417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.1977.1622417","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of measurements of temperature increase, due to RF energy deposition, in simulated biological tissue near 6 W portable transmitters with helical and whip antennas. At close distances (< .5'') VHF helices deposit energy in the surface fatty layers, with practically no penetration into muscle tissue; 450 MHz helical antennas transfer energy mostly into the surface fat, with the penetration into deep tissue increasing by a factor of 10 from 150 MHz. UHF quarter-wavelength whips deposit power mostly in the muscle tissue. At larger distances (> 2''), the detected temperature increases are extremely small, indicating that portable radios are safe.","PeriodicalId":105804,"journal":{"name":"27th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125892544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An interference free multi-vehicular repeater system","authors":"L. Bennett, T. Faulkner","doi":"10.1109/VTC.1977.1622447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.1977.1622447","url":null,"abstract":"One method to ensure that a public safety officer remains in contact with his dispatcher is for each officer to carry a portable radio and have a repeater in his vehicule to compensate for the low power of the portable. In the past the use of vehicular repeaters in more than one vehicle has been prohibited by interference caused by multi-unit key up. The PAC RT vehicular repeater described in this paper prevents multi-unit key up by assigning a priority to each repeater and permitting only \"priority units\" to repeat.","PeriodicalId":105804,"journal":{"name":"27th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116446934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}