Abstract: Modem receiver featuring digital phase splitting filter circuitry for storing a changing sequence of successive said samples, multiplying a single, real-valued, stream of said stored samples respectively by coefficients, and combining the products of said multiplication to provide a complex-valued output consisting of a pair of output streams having associated carrier frequencies which, due solely to the selection of said coefficients, are equal but 90.degree. apart in phase, said coefficients being selected to establish a relationship between said outputs and said stored samples corresponding to bandpass filtering having an amplitude or phase response that does not exhibit symmetry in the frequency spectrum about the frequency of said carrier, and means for thereafter demodulating and encoding said output streams.

Abstract: A phase tracking network comprising a phase correction network for correcting at least some of the phase error of an input signal to provide a phase corrected signal having components in first and second channels and a detector responsive to the phase corrected signal for providing a detected signal having first and second components in the first and second channels. An error calculator provides a phase correction signal back to the phase correction apparatus which responds to the phase correction signal to correct the phase error of the input signal. The phase error signal contains substantially no noise from the first channel at least when the first component of the detected signal is zero and contains substantially no noise from the second channel at least when the second component of the detected signal is zero.

Abstract: A control system comprising a gain control circuit for adjusting the gain of an input signal to provide a gain controlled signal and an integrator for integrating the gain controlled signal to provide an output signal. A first circuit responds to a particular condition for changing the gain of the gain control circuit and a second circuit responds to that same condition for changing the output signal independently of the gain control signal to bring about a more rapid change in the output signal than could be brought about solely by changing the gain controlled signal.