budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg) (11/05/90)
From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg) PAVE PAWS I can partly decode for you. Second acronym stands for Phased Array Warning System. There have been several generations of over-Pole radar systems including DEW Line (Distant Early Warning), BMEWS (Ballistic Missile Early Warning System) and currently PAWS. Can't decode Have Quick, I'm not convinced it's an acronym, but maybe just a name. This describes a slow-hop frequency hopping protocol that was added or built in to several UHF voice radios. It's an anti-jam feature -- all radios in a net are synched to a common time base. Then they jump together to through a pseudo-random sequence of frequencies. As long as the hop rate is faster than a jammer trying to follow, he can't get enough S/N onto you to jam your comms. While the hop rate is classified, it is in the neighborhood of 10 times per second (or less). This means you get some anti-jam, but not the kind of low probability of detection that fast hop or other spread spectrum schemes provide. Rex Buddenberg