Voice Communication Factors Resulting from Interference

One problem that confronts interference analysts and communication system designers is that of relating operational performance to signal and interference conditions at the input to a receiver. This paper discusses the problem of specifying performance of AM voice communication systems, defines the basic factors that contribute to receiver performance, and outlines methods that may be used to calculate operational performance of a receiver in the presence of interference. It is felt that the results of the work described in this paper will help to provide an understanding of the basic factors that contribute to operational performance, and this information may be used by interference analysts to specify performance and by system designers to develop less susceptible equipments.