Pulse repeating system

Claim 1

IN A PULSE REPEATER, A RECEIVING CIRCUIT FOR INCOMING PULSE TRAINS TO BE REPEATED, FLYWHEEL TIMING MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID RECEIVING CIRCUIT FOR DERIVING A CONTINUOUS SERIES OF PULSES HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME TIMES OF OCCURRENCE AS THE PULSE POSITIONS IN SAID INCOMING PULSE TRAIN, MEANS CONTROLLED BY SAID CONTINUOUS SERIES OF PULSES FOR WRITING SUCCESSIVE PULSE CODE ELEMENTS OF SAID INCOMING PULSE TRAIN INTO DIFFERENT ONES OF A PLURALITY OF PULSE STORAGE ELEMENTS, MEANS FOR GENERATING OSCILLATIONS HAVING A FREQUENCY EQUAL TO AN INTEGRAL MULTIPLE OF THE NORMAL REPETITION RATE OF SAID INPUT PULSE TRAIN, SAID OSCILLATION GENERATING MEANS BEING ADAPTED TO BE ADJUSTED IN FREQUENCY BY A CONTROL SIGNAL, MEANS CONTROLLED BY SAID OSCILLATION GENERATING MEANS FOR READING PULSE CODE ELEMENTS FROM SAID PULSE STORAGE ELEMENTS, MEANS FOR GENERATING A SIGNAL INDICATIVE OF THE AVERAGE INFORMATION CONTENT OF SAID PULSE STORAGE ELEMENTS, AND MEANS FOR APPLYING SAID INDICATING SIGNAL TO SAID OSCILLATION GENERATING MEANS AS SAID CONTROL SIGNAL.