Team Members

Justin Burkhart - Brandon Mui - Matt Carrier - Nick Merrill

Team Advisor

Professor R.W.Jackson

In the radio frequency communications realm there is a bureaucratic authority known as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).  The FCC has many regulations and standards on how communications are made.  For example, they regulate the amount of power transmitted and what frequencies are allocated for communications use.  A way to get around the FCC's regulation would be to implement a radio which runs at a wide ‘band’ of frequencies.  By designing a radio that operates in this manor, the transmitted power can be spread out along a large number of frequencies, and the sum of all of the transmitted power is still a large number.  Thus the total power transmitted, which would be greater then the FCC’s minimum allowable on one particular frequency, can be transmitted on a number of frequencies with power below the FCC minimum that sum to enough power to make a significant transmission.

November 30, 2005

MDR Specifications:

 

Transmitter and Receiver Prototype Built

-          Built using modular components connected with coaxial cable

-          No synchronization circuitry implemented

-          No antenna implemented

 

Antenna Design and Prototype Built

-          Tested for gain, return loss, and radiation pattern

 

Synchronization Circuitry

-          Will be designed independently from the prototype