Automatically adjustable bidirectional-to-unidirectional transmission network

摘要

"Transhybrid" loss is maximized in a transmission network of the active canceler type employed to couple receive and transmit unidirectional transmission paths to a bidirectional transmission path including 2-wire loaded type cable by controllably adjusting impedance elements of the canceler circuit in a prescribed sequence including adjustment of a network build out capacitor to obtain amplitude nulls of signals detected on the transmit path while supplying individual ones of a plurality of test signals to the receive path. The test signals include first and second signals having a plurality of equally spaced frequency components in first and second frequency bands, respectively, and a third signal having a predetermined single frequency. The adjustment sequence includes a plurality of iterative adjustments of predetermined impedance elements in predetermined groups until no changes in the impedance settings occur and multiple iterative adjustment of predetermined groups until no changes in the impedance settings occur. The impedance elements to be adjusted and the adjustment sequence are selected to rapidly converge the canceler circuit to an optimum transfer function for generating a correction signal which is substantially a replica of an error signal to be canceled from the transmit path.