A new UHF autotune communications system for ships

• Published in: 27th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Vol. 27; pp. 244 - 257
• Main Authors: Secord, A.H., Alden, A.W., Whittaker, J.A.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 1977
• Subjects: Antenna feeds; Band pass filters; Frequency; Marine vehicles; Radio transmitters; Receiving antennas; Speech; Teleprinting; Transceivers; Transmitting antennas

A UHF radio system for ship-to-ship and ship-to-aircraft communications has been designed for the Canadian Armed Forces. It is automatically tunable to any of 7,000 channels spaced at 25 KHz intervals from 225 MHz to 400 MHz. Each ship is capable of operating 9 simultaneous links in the simplex mode...