Two-way transceiver including frequency synthesizer

• US 4,310,923 A
• Filed: 03/23/1979
• Issued: 01/12/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: General Aviation Electronics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: General Aviation Electronics Incorporated
• Inventors: Kennedy, Edmund E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ng, Jin F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chin, Tommy P.
• Application Number:
  US06/023,240
• Time in Patent Office: 1,026 Days
• Field of Search: 325/15-17, 325/21-22, 325/25, 325/419, 325/420, 325/453, 325/467, 325/468, 343/175, 343/176, 343/179, 343/180, 343/181, 455/77, 455/89, 455/90, 455/95, 455/98, 455/99, 455/175, 455/128, 455/178, 455/344, 455/345, 455/346, 455/347, 455/348, 455/349, 455/351
• US Class Current: 455/79
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 5/0272 the digital values being used to preset a counter or a frequency divider in a phase locked loop, e.g. frequency synthesizer
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/405 with multiple discrete channels

Abstract

A two-way business-band transceiver for operation on an assigned FCC frequency includes a chassis housing a plurality of printed circuit boards which are surrounded by a three-part enclosure. This enclosure includes a main body portion having a top half and a bottom half and a control head portion which is separable from the main body portion. The transceiver circuitry which is arranged both within the main body portion as well as within the control head portion includes frequency synthesizing means which are selectable yet nonaccessible from the front of the control head portion. Frequency selection is accomplished by gaining access to a programming circuit portion which is located within the control head portion. This programming circuit portion includes a plurality of 10-position, rotary BCD switches which are arranged for channel 1 and channel 2 operation. By means of selective jumper placement, the transceiver may be arranged for either low-band operation or high-band operation and with each, an additional set of jumpers may be arranged for simplex operation or semi-duplex operation. The 100-MHz digit is preset at 1 and the 10-MHz digit is preset at 5 for each frequency setting, whether low band or high band, and for high-band operation, there is a 10.7-MHz offset factor which is effectively added to the switch setting for high-band operation. The frequency selection switches are not accessible by means of front panel controls and this prevents inadvertent frequency change yet the circuitry still provides the benefits of frequency synthesizing.

Claims

1. A two-way business-band transceiver, comprising:

a transceiver housing enclosing a transceiver circuit,

a separable control head portion integral with the housing and containing controls including a channel-select switch with an external select knob for selecting one of a plural number of channels each having a plural digit frequency,

a set of plural individually adjustable frequency selection elements for each channel frequency, each of which controls the value of a different digit of that frequency,

the adjustable frequency selection elements being disposed within the control head portion of the housing and being inaccessible from outside the housing, the elements being positioned therein for convenient adjustment of their digit values to provide an internal adjustable multi-frequency changing capability for the external manual channel-select switch,

the transceiver circuit including a high-band frequency offset circuit means for providing an incremental frequency change from a first frequency setting located in the low-band range to a setting in the high-band frequency range.

2. The business-band transceiver of claim 1 wherein said transceiver circuit includes means for providing frequency operation of said transceiver on either of two simplex channels or on one semiduplex channel.

3. The business-band transceiver of claim 1 wherein said adjustable frequency elements are a plurality of rotary switches, each of said rotary switches corresponding to a particular frequency value digit and having a plurality of switch positions, each of said switch positions corresponding to a different value for said digit.

4. The business-band transceiver of claim 1 wherein the transceiver circuit includes as part thereof, means for giving assigned fixed digit values for the 100-MHz digit and the 10-MHz digit of the desired frequency.

5. The business-band transceiver of claim 1 wherein the transceiver circuit includes as part thereof means for giving assigned digit values for the 100-MHz digit and the 10-MHz digit of the desired frequency.

6. The business-band transceiver of claim 5 wherein said control head portion is open at its interface with said main body portion and said adjustable frequency selection elements are arranged on a printed circuit board wherein the component side is positioned in a rearwardly-facing orientation such that said plurality of rotary switches are accessible for manual position selection once said control head portion is separated from said main body portion.

7. The business-band transceiver of claim 6 wherein said transceiver circuit includes electric jump wire means for connecting different interacting circuit logic elements of the transceiver to provide for either high-band or low-band operation.

8. The business-band transceiver of claim 1 wherein the only front panel controls of said transceiver include a channel select control, ON/OFF-volume control and squelch control.

9. The business-band transceiver of claim 1 wherein said high-band frequency offset circuitry means has a value of 10.7 MHz.

10. The business-band transceiver of claim 1, where the same preset control circuitry is provided for both the first and the second digits of the desired frequency for both the high and low bands.