A narrowband interference excision and nulling system for Global
Positioning Satellite (GPS), spread spectrum navigation and communication
bands, and an antijam electronic apparatus that operates using RF
conversion and digital signal processing. A band containing the signal of
interest as well as interference is converted to an intermediate
frequency (IF) for RF filtering using single conversion, and this signal
is digitized using an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). A representation
of the signal is produced at a lower frequency using digitization and
filtering, and a continuous data representation of the band is processed
using multiple-point samples to define the input to a complex FFT. The
FFT produces contiguous frequency bins that are examined to identify
narrowband and broadband interference. An excision algorithm determines
the optimum pattern of bins to be removed, after which the residual bins
are reconstructed using an IFFT, followed by digital-to-analog conversion
and RF conversion to the output band. Narrowband interference excision
can be integrated with two-port broadband suppression in cascade using a
masked variable resolution FFT spectral energy detection receiver.