Improvements relating to on-channel repeaters

摘要

An on-channel repeater has a receiving antenna (12) for receiving an RF signal and a transmitting antenna (22) for transmitting on the same frequency as the input signal. An amplification path (14) between the antennas provides substantially linear processing and includes a combiner (16), a decorrelating delay (18) and a power amplifier (20). A filter estimator (24) receives a reference signal and the combiner output and generates a plurality of control coefficients which are applied to an adaptive filter (26) which filters the reference signal accordingly and applies its output to the combiner. The reference signal is derived not from the output of the decorrelating delay (18) but rather from the output antenna (22) after the power amplifier (20). Where there is an adjacent transmitter (42) generating potentially interfering signals, the transmitter output is coupled to the same transmitter antenna (22).