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News Release from: Sight Systems | Subject: W41PC MkII
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 February 2001
Card provides PC-based communications
analysis
The W41PC MkII is a PC plug-in ISA card and software system offering all the necessary functions to analyse, decode and process comms transmissions in the HF/VHF/UHF and SHF bands.
The W41PC MkII is the latest version of a PC plug-in ISA card and software system offering all the necessary functions to analyse, decode and process communications transmissions in the HF/VHF/UHF and SHF bands Manufactured in Switzerland by Wavecom, it is available in the UK from Sight Systems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 May 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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The W41PC MkII provides government bodies, telecommunications authorities and military and civilian units with a powerful signals intelligence gathering system for radio communications, datacomms, fax, telephone, mobile and pager signals in a variety of world alphabets.
The system may be configured for stationary monitoring of just one transmission with a single system or can range to a fully automated broadband monitoring system using a network of co-operating systems.
More than 100 code analysis modes are currently implemented for all important demodulation methods and a variety of international alphabets (eg Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew etc) are included in the standard package.
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Options to decode additional modes are available to authorised official bodies, as is the software source code and a complete development environment.
This allows the customer to realise his own decoding modes or to adapt the user interface to specific requirements.
Product development is ongoing and additional modes and functions are continually being added.
Real-time FFT functions realised with high-speed DSPs and an applications specific processor, together with a fast display refresh rate, provide powerful tools especially for analysing unknown signals quickly.
Decoded data can be routed for processing on the same or another computer in a network without human interaction.
Data output, triggered by an alarm monitor if required, can control receivers and recording equipment and can be fed into complex data analysis tools.
Time stamps can be added to the data for precise backtracking.
The W41PC MkII is a full 32bit Windows application offering a familiar operating environment.
This provides the added bonus of being able to use any Windows compliant printer or graphics package.
Multiwindow display of different signals simultaneously or to display different characteristics of the same signal is an important user benefit.
Up to four W41PC MkII systems can be plugged into a single PC providing the basis for a high performance signal decoding system.
For massive data handling any node can be set up as a management console to control a whole network.
Automatic switching of processing in case of partial shutdown is possible.
The supervising node can be used to remotely control other systems or organise direct hard disk recording or archiving to mass storage devices.
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