The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000

A space diversity communication system is presented in which the effects of signal fading are reduced through the cooperative receipt by closely spaced antenna sensor elements and the processing in a hybrid network of signals originally transmitted as a single intelligence-modulated carrier, though susceptible of multiple path propagation. Sum and difference signals are developed for analysis in a novel diversity signal selector or combiner. In one form, the latter may develop signals for electronically steering the system receptivity pattern so as to maximize the reception signal-to-noise ratio.