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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1994
Alan E Lundquist, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
John W Zscheile, Jr, West-Farmington, UT (US);
Samuel C Kingston, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Loral Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for rapidly acquiring a high performance gain long PN code having a preamble header in real time includes appratus for rapid acquiring and tracking a short PN code in said preamble header and further includes apparatus for demodulating and tracking a long PN code which follows said preamble header. After acquiring the short PN code, the short PN replica code is applied to the long code demodulation and tracking apparatus. The short PN code is employed to synchronize the long code demodulation and tracking apparatus by detecting the time of occurrence of a sync word in said preamble header and is employed to generate a switch point signal and switch from a short PN replica code to a long PN replica code at the input to the long code demodulation and tracking device in real time.