Sideband-aided receiver arraying

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Feb 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982tdar.nasa...39b&link_type=abstract

In its The Telecommun. and Data Acquisition Rept. p 39-54 (SEE N82-20113 10-99)

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Antenna Arrays, Data Acquisition, Radio Receivers, Sidebands, Computerized Simulation, Reception Diversity, Spacecraft Tracking

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Efforts to increase the amount of data that can be received from outer planet missions by coherently combining signals from ground antennas in such a way as to increase the total effective aperture of the receiving system are discussed. As these signals become weaker, the baseband arraying technique in current use degrades somewhat due to carrier jitter. One solution to this problem is Sideband-Aided Receiver Arraying (SARA). In SARA, sidebands demodulated to baseband in a master receiver at the largest antenna are used to allow slave receivers in the other antennas to track the sideband power in the signal rather than the carrier power. The already existing receivers can be used in the slaves to track and demodulate the signals in either a residual carrier or a suppressed carrier environment. The resultant baseband signals from all the antennas can then be combined using existing baseband combining equiment. Computer simulations of SARA show increases in throughput (measured in data bits per second) over baseband-only combining 17 percent at Voyager 2 Uranum encounter and 31 percent at Neptune for a four-element antenna array and (7, 1/2) convolutional coding.

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