Low noise front-end blanking and interleaving for satellite reception in pulsed interference environments

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5889821
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08808567

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A method and apparatus to enable high-quality digital transmissions to a satellite terminal operating in proximity to a radar source combines interleaving a sequence of channel symbols at a land station before transmission of an RF signal to a satellite, increasing the satellite's EIRP to compensate for the effects of the radar's duty factor on received signal power and code distance, detecting the radar pulses at a satellite terminal, blanking the received RF signal to prevent reception of the signal by the modem at the satellite terminal during the radar's ON time, having the modem recognize and eliminate the effect of the gap in the channel signals on its metric calculation, and de-interleaving the sequence of channel symbols. As a result, satellite terminals operating in proximity to radar sources can provide the same quality of service as if there were no radars operating.

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COMSAT CORPORATION6560 ROCK SPRING DRIVE BETHESDA MD 20817

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Arnstein, Donald S Fairfax, VA 5 199
Assal, Francois Bethesda, MD 1 51
Lieberman, Moshe Rockville, MD 1 51
Upshur, John I Germantown, MD 2 65

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