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Old 3rd June 2017, 13:43
ChasD Abu Dhabi ChasD is offline
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Originally Posted by Wismajorvik View Post
Lincompex was used primarily on point to point HF circuits. At the TX end audio was split in two paths, one path was amplified to nearly a constant level, the sybillic rate used to frequency modulate a pilot signal at 2960hz. At the RX end the demodulated pilot was used to vary the level of the received audio re-creating the original. Or something like that...did a course in '68 and worked live on the kit in '76.
Now that you mention it, it rings a bell that it was used in fixed point-point, finding a home there rather than the sea-going environment. All very much ' a universe far - far - away !'


Regards ... Chas
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