VDEW

General Information

This SelCal system conforms to the VDEW (Vereinigung Deutscher Elektrizitaetswerke) recommendations (Germany). It is an analog SelCal system using a sequence of single tones.

Usage:

§ Narrowband FM SelCal system in the VHF/UHF frequency range.

Mode Details

 

Item

Value

Standard

Modulation

Multitone

 

Number of tones

12

 

Coding

Character coding

Demodulator Settings

Demodulator

Analogue SelCal

 

Tone duration (ms)

100

 

TD tolerance (ms)

10

 

No. of tones

12

 

SELCAL type

VDEW

 

Min. burst length (s)

0.300

 

Max. burst length (s)

1.000

 

Min. pause length (s)

0.100

 

Min. burst SNR (dB)

0

Features

Demodulation

yes

 

Recognition

yes

 

Decoding

yes

 

Automatic Polarity Adjustment

no

 

Combination with other modems (modem list)

yes

Tuning

The tuning frequency is the center of the signal’s frequency range

Table 25: VDEW

Figure 22: VDEW Spectrogram