The Marconi Company Limited

David W Joynson

Michael A Jones

Ian J White

A radar transmitter chain employing injection locked oscillator, e.g., a magnetron, as an output stage. Problems arise with maintaining the injection locking bandwidth centered on the radar source transmit frequency. This alignment is maintained by allowing the magnetron (38) free running frequency to drift, along with its injection locking bandwidth and then to force the radar source frequency (30) to follow the magnetron frequency. A phase difference measurement (44) between the injection signal (35) and the magnetron output signal (37) provides the control for a feedback loop (60) which may control a tunable VCO (48) or selection from a bank of fixed frequency oscillators (78).

Radar system employing injection locked transmitter stage

A method of preventing interference between `friendly` pulse doppler radars when in action against a common target or adjacents targets. Despite considerable separation of the radar r.f's the pulsed signals have repeated sideband pulses which may be taken by another radar as a doppler-shifted echo. This problem is to a large extent alleviated by frequency modulating the r.f. transmission at a very low cycle rate of the order of one cycle per second and at a modulation rate sufficient to indicate to a receiving radar that the source could not be a target accelerating at such a high rate.

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Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

David W Joynson