Airborne Paging Demonstration
Charles W. Niessen · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 2000
Personal pagers have found wide-spread use in the commercial world, allowing people on the road or away from their office to be contacted with a simple message, often to "call home." The utility of this service clearly translates to the battlefield. However, the tactical battlefield does not come equipped with the large infrastructure that is used by the commercial systems. For the battlefield, either a satellite-born or an airborne transmitter can be used to activate near-commercial paging receivers. During an earlier program, paging from military communications satellites at UHF was demonstrated. However, the available signal margin was too low for reliable paging, particularly into structures.