The ATC radar beacon system is today's primary source of surveillance data for air traffic control. For en route traffic control, radar and beacon data are collected at numerous long range radar (LRR) facilities and typically sent by remote control to the air traffic control center (ARTCC) by a radar microwave link (RML). Self-supporting or guyed RML towers are installed at some LRR sites adjacent to the LRR antenna to establish a line-of-sight microwave path to the first repeater site. For these LRR sites, beacon splits and pulse-stretching effects have been observed particularly in the direction of the RML tower. This paper relates to the determination of the magnitude of the beacon split problem for such sites and the extent to which this problem is caused by the RML tower. It has been shown that the RML tower causes distortion in the patterns of both the directional and omnidirectional antenna.
Beacon splits in air traffic control radar beacon system (ATCRBS)
Bakensplits im Radarbaken-Flugverkehr-Kontrollsystem (ATC RBS)
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ; AES-11 , 6 ; 1248-1259
1975
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Article (Journal)
English
The effects of defruiting on the ATCRBS (Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System)
Tema Archive | 1975
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