{"title":"Personal radio paging in the VHF band","authors":"J. Mitchell","doi":"10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32974","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a discussion of a complete VHF Radio Paging System designed to operate in the 25 to 50 mc band and 1L.4 to 174 mc bands. The system includes small light-weight receivers which are worn by the users. The receivers can be selectively called up to many thousands on the same RF channel. When the receiver is called, the user hears an alerting tone. He then presses the listen button and the voice message is received. The base station is a standard land-mobile FM transmitter. This transmitter is tone-modulated by the encoding equipment to send the page alerting call. It is then voice modulated to send the message. The base encoding equipment may take several forms from the simplest which can call 90 different receivers to the most complex which can call up to 7)00 receivers. The base station RF equipment may take many forms and may also service two-way radios on the same channel.","PeriodicalId":263631,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Vehicular Communications","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121902718","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":"System performance, compatibility, and standards","authors":"R. T. Buesing, N. H. Shepherd","doi":"10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32972","url":null,"abstract":"There are two prime purposes of Industry Standards for 2-Way Land Mobile Radio Equipment. They are: 1.) To assure high standards of customer performance and 2.) to assure system compatibility. Examples are given of standards written for both purposes. For example, the logic behind receiver sensitivity and selectivity standards are discussed. Similarily, the importance of standards which assure compatibility between Tone-Coded Squelch Systems, standards for frequency stability, and standards for interference protection between systems are discussed.","PeriodicalId":263631,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Vehicular Communications","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123496152","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":"System concepts for address communication systems","authors":"D. H. Hamsher","doi":"10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32976","url":null,"abstract":"The author describes an investigation into the concept of address communication systems of a form called random access-discrete address. In the literature this is also referred to as non-synchronous or asynchronous comnunication. The basic concept exploits the random character of speech so that some talkers are transmitting during quiescent periods of others. It is therefore a voice comuication system although not necessarily limited to voice. As the author has been considering the system many transmitters radiate signals more or less simultaneously, and each receiver must pick out of this mixture of signals those signals which are intended for him. Thus, the use of the phrase 'random access.' In order to accomplish this, each transmitter addresses each and every signal element which it transmits with the code of the intended receiver so that the receiver may select the coded signal addressed to it. Hence, the terms 'discrete address.'","PeriodicalId":263631,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Vehicular Communications","volume":"207 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122604253","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":"Police and fire department communications centers a systems approach to the control console and related facilities","authors":"G. A. Brookes","doi":"10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32975","url":null,"abstract":"Police departments, and similar organizations which require communication with mobile units are confronted with similar problems. The equipment provision for a typical installation is discussed with particular emphasis on the facilities which are provided in the communications console. A description is given of the modular units such as amplifiers, control units, display units and signal actuated recorder which have been developed for this application.","PeriodicalId":263631,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Vehicular Communications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133132865","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":"A personal two-way VHF radio communication system featuring modular construction","authors":"T. H. Yaffe","doi":"10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32973","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a VHF \"personal\" communications receiver assembled entirely from individual circuit modules, which are constructed with standard, commercially available, subminiature components. Defective modules can be rapidly replaced, and later repaired or modified. Other receiver features include 1 microvolt sensitivity, double conversion, a crystal filter selectivity package at the high I.F. frequency, and a novel squelch gating circuit. The companion transmitter, more conventional in construction, also is subminiaturized. It features a 1 watt power output, a transistorized modulator, and a DC-DC converter type of power supply with rechargeable nickel cadmium batteries. The shirt pocket size receiver and the transmitter occupy a combined volume of less than 85 cubic inches and together weigh less than 4-1/2 pounds.","PeriodicalId":263631,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Vehicular Communications","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124886334","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":"Theory and performance of vehicular center-fed whip antenna","authors":"H. Brueckmann","doi":"10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32969","url":null,"abstract":"The design considerations and results of extensive performance tests of a novel antenna for vehicular communication in the frequency range 30 to 76 mc are given together with applicable theory. The principal features of the antenna include feeding a whip antenna at its center through a coaxial cable, terminating it at its base into a variable reactor with different settings for each one of ten bands, providing separate built-in fixed-tuned matching networks for each band and switching them by means of automatic remote control which is activated by the frequency dial of the radio set. The design of the base reactor comprising a transmission line wound on a ferrite core having a tapped coil connected in parallel with it, and of the transmission line inside the whip are discussed in detail. Measured current distributions, radiation patterns, impedance plots and other performance data are presented.","PeriodicalId":263631,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Vehicular Communications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129956871","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":"Linear cancellation technique for suppressing impulse noise","authors":"E. Baghdady","doi":"10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32968","url":null,"abstract":"At the present time, known techniques for suppressing the effects of impulsive disturbances can be identified with one of three general approaches: (a) The use of nonlinear saturating elements or noise clippers; (b) Disturbance-triggered, gating-out schemes; (c) The use of special signal design such as special coding, or linear premodulation waveform alteration and postdemodulation correction of the message. In this paper a new technique that is fun&- mentally simple and hear is described; it is effective even when the i-f filter responses to the various impulses overlap, as long as the number of overlapping responses is not great. The only important assumption made is the one that is fundamental in all impulse-noise studies - that the individual bursts have durations that are substantially shorter than the duration of the shortest important message element. This technique (which we call the linear-cancellation technique\") makes use of an important property of the impulse response of a linear filter - that its maximum value is directly proportional to the filter bandwidth. This technique is applicable to the reception of all types of modulation, even to pulsed transmissions, subject, of course, to the fundamental assumption about the duration of the input noise pulse relative to the duration of the shortest important message element.","PeriodicalId":263631,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Vehicular Communications","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130393479","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":"Pushbutton dial mobile radiotelephone an advanced concept in common carrier mobile service","authors":"J. Stewart","doi":"10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32977","url":null,"abstract":"A real need has developed for common-carrier mobile radiotelephone service which can be connected directly into dial telephone exchanges. Many exchanges are now unattended and the mobile subscriber must be able to dial his calls and receive calls in the same manner as with his office or home dial telephone. The transmission of the dialing information from a moving vehicle into the exchange, with the accuracy required to meet telephone standards, has presented an interesting challenge in view of various radio propagation characteristics often experienced, particularly from weak signal or fringe areas. The pushbutton type of dialing described in this paper provides a digital signalling system employing tones of sufficient duration to ride over the numerous signal drop-outs sometimes lasting more than 100 milliseconds. Extensive field experience has proven this approach to be highly reliable and consistent in dialing from a mobile unit. A unique application of counter tubes and transistor switching circuits is employed in the conversion of the tones into dial pulses at the base station terminal. The use of pushbuttons has been found to be very convenient for mobile service. A number of the various features incorporated in mobile dial systems are described in this paper.","PeriodicalId":263631,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Vehicular Communications","volume":"3 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130013683","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":"Effects of tower and guys on performance of side-mounted vertical antennas","authors":"R.F.H. Yang, F.R. Willis","doi":"10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRETVC1.1960.32971","url":null,"abstract":"The omni-directional pattern of a vertical antenna when side-mounted on a mast or tower, is distorted as a function of tower diameter and separation in wavelength. The pattern is further effected by obstruction of metallic tower guys. Laboratory and field measurements of these effects are analyzed. Possibility of taking advantage of these effects for special coverage is suggested. Tower effect on antenna impedance is briefly discussed.","PeriodicalId":263631,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Vehicular Communications","volume":"426 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121833937","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}