The sidelobe suppression and improved sidelobe suppression mode performance of terminal and enroute air traffic control radar beacon systems using the existing antenna and a typical improved antenna in the presence of perfectly dielectric flat ground are investigated theoretically. Necessary analytical expressions for various quantities characterising the system performance have been derived. A general purpose computer program has been developed for the computation and tabulation of these quantities as functions of the elevation angle of the observation point and for different combinations of heights of the directional and omnidirectional antennas of the beacon. Although the discussions given here apply to some specific antenna configurations the theoretical method developed has more general application in evaluating quantitatively the performance of the beacon system in a given situation.
On the performance of air traffic control radar beacon system
Ueber die Wirksamkeit von Radarstreckenfeuer im Luftverkehr
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ; AES-12 , 4 ; 494-502
1976
9 Seiten, 11 Quellen
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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