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| | Antenna, November 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | "Pseudonoise," for instance, served quite well in describing this manipulation of signals because, to a receiver not synchronized with the transmitter, incoming signals came through as meaningless noise. |
 | | The essential feature of spread-spectrum technology is the expansion, or spread, of the bandwidth of the transmitted signal (carrier wave plus data stream) well beyond that at which it incorporates the data stream to be communicated. |
 | | The phase of the carrier signal, which has a constant frequency, is switched (say, by 180 degrees) at irregular intervals according to a long pseudonoise (PN) pattern before it is modulated by the data stream. |
| www.mercurians.org /nov97/spectrum-capsule.html (488 words) |
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