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.


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    Title :

    On the performance of air traffic control radar beacon system


    Additional title:

    Ueber die Wirksamkeit von Radarstreckenfeuer im Luftverkehr


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1976


    Size :

    9 Seiten, 11 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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