Abstract: Undesired, intefering narrow band received signals in a radio receiver are automatically cancelled by a cancellation system including a variable narrow band pass filter that separates a sample of the undersired signals from the total received signal, reverses phase of the sample and combines it with the total received signal, substantially cancelling the undesired signals therein. In a Loran-C receiver, desired beacon signals in the band 90 to 110 KHz are received aling with narrow band interfering (undesired) signals. During a "cancel mode," a narrow band of the total received signal is sampled by a variable narrow band pass filter and the narrow band sample is reversed in phase and then combined with the total received signal to cancel the undersired signals therein.

Abstract: Undesired, interfering narrow band received signals in a Loran-C receiver are automatically rejected and the resulting distortion of the received Loran beacon signals caused by this rejection is automatically compensated for. The received Loran-C beacon signals in the band 90 to 110 KHz are fed through a narrow band, variable reject filter that rejects the undesired signal and is controlled by a feedback circuit in response to an interference detector in the receiver, so that the reject filter is automatically set at the interfering signal, rejecting it. Meanwhile, distortion of the received Loran beacon signals caused by the rejection is compensated for by an automatic circuit that varies a delay and add circuit in the Loran receiver to compensate for the distortion.

Abstract: In a Loran Receiver that receives radio frequency (RF) signals from a master beacon and at least two slave beacons (also called secondary transmitters) and converts the received signals into hyperbolic coordinates that locate the position of the receiver with respect to the beacons and a programmed computer controls modes and sequences of operation of the system, these modes being generally the beacon pulse search mode, front edge/zero crossing location mode and the zero crossing track mode, received beacon pulses are searched and identified by the following technique: all received signals are repeatedly sampled at the beacon group repetition interval (GRI) in a regular sampling pattern in which the sampling rate is greater than the beacon pulse rate, each sample interval being only a small portion of a beacon pulse RF excursion; the samples are hard limited and assigned a value of plus or minus, depending upon whether they exceed a threshold, and these plus-minus patterns are accumulated over many GRIs and s