Abstract: A testing system for wireless communication networks, particularly cellular networks, having a test set located in a cell site which communicates through the cell's base station to a responder at the mobile telephone switching office (MTSO). The test set, which includes a measurement module, controller, modem, and cellular phone, initiates the call to the responder, and directs the responder to transmit and receive certain test signals which are then measured by the measurement module. The tests preferably include standard "105" tests. The test set, which may be fixed or mobile, provides essentially continuous monitoring of voice channels within a given cell, and can send an alarm in near real-time to the network control center when a faulty voice channel is detected.

Abstract: A marker tape for location of a buried conduit, having a plurality of electronic markers spaced thereon at predetermined intervals. The distance between the markers encodes information about the buried conduit. The tape may be a nonconductive ribbon or cord, and the markers are preferably passive circuits tuned to a specific frequency. The tape ribbon embodiment may include slots therein for receiving the markers. The markers may be oriented in a predetermined pattern to encode additional information.

Abstract: A marker tape for location of a buried conduit, having a plurality of electronic markers spaced thereon at predetermined intervals. The distance between the markers encodes information about the buried conduit. The tape may be a nonconductive ribbon or cord, and the markers are preferably passive circuits tuned to a specific frequency. The tape ribbon embodiment may include slots therein for receiving the markers. The markers may be oriented in a predetermined pattern to encode additional information.

Abstract: Systems and methods for locating re-access points along an underground conductor wherein tuned passive marker elements are disposed adjacent and alongside the conductor at the re-access points, a transmitted signal is coupled to the conductor to create a field about same such that a receiver that is swung to and fro laterally of the conductor by an operator traversing same will normally have a peak-null-peak output, but as a marker is approached the receiver will have a peak output in the normally null region due to a field generated by the passive marker element, thus permitting the location of the passive marker element to be precisely determined.

Abstract: Improved method and apparatus for measuring the capacitance of telephone cable pairs utilizes the technique of charging and discharging the cable pair being measured to respective predetermined voltage levels and integrating the discharge current while observing certain specified parameter requirements. This technique provides an output which is a linear function of the capacitance of the cable pair being measured and has the property of substantially infinite rejection of a predetermined (interference) frequency and its harmonics, and yet permits the apparatus to have requisite simplicity and economy.