Abstract: A radio communication system (100) implements a frequency reuse plan by sending a message (308) simultaneously with other messages in a plurality of cell clusters (202-208) utilizing the frequency reuse plan, which provides a message carrier-to-interference ratio (C/I) sufficient for reception of the message when a receiver (104) is adjusted in accordance with a periodically transmitted pilot symbol (402-408). The C/I is smaller than preferred for reception of the pilot symbol. The pilot symbol is periodically transmitting simultaneously with other pilot symbols in a time diverse manner such that pilot symbol transmissions for adjacent ones of the plurality of cell clusters occur in non-overlapping time slots, thereby generating the larger C/I preferred for reception of the pilot symbol. The pilot symbol and the message are received by the receiver, and the receiver is adjusted in accordance with the pilot symbol to demodulate the message.

Abstract: A digital phase detector 100 receives a limited input signal 108 and inputs it and a reference oscillation 112 into an EXCLUSIVE NOR gate 102. The output 110 of the EXCLUSIVE NOR gate 102 is input to a gated N-bit counter 104, which produces an N-bit representation of the magnitude of the phase 115 of the signal 108. A sign detector 105 determines the sign of the phase of the signal by sampling the resultant 110 and combines the magnitude of the phase 115 with the sign of the phase to produce a digital numeric representation of the phase of the signal 116.