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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2007
Glenn A. Walker, Greentown, IN (US);
Eric A. Dibiaso, Kokomo, IN (US);
Glenn A. Walker, Greentown, IN (US);
Eric A. Dibiaso, Kokomo, IN (US);
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
A communication system and method of communicating signals to a plurality of different types of receivers is provided. At least one transmitter transmits hierarchically modulated high priority and low priority signals as a single frequency network. At least one satellite re-transmits the high priority signal in a first circularly polarized direction and the low priority signal in a second circularly polarized direction. At least one of a first receiver having a single antenna is configured to receive the high priority signal in the first circularly polarized direction and switched to receive the low priority signal in the second circularly polarized direction, and a second receiver having a first antenna is configured to receive the high priority signal in the first circularly polarized direction, and a second antenna is configured to receive the low priority signal in the second circularly polarized direction substantially simultaneously.