International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation

Henry R Kennedy

Damian F Albanese

David E Hammers

Jack W Goodwin

Frank J O'Farrell

Two STC configurations for precision control of RF attenuators, each configuration utilizing a log-scale electronic attenuator, are disclosed. The first configuration includes a D/A converter/linear-to-log module combination to provide a log range ramp; the second configuration utilizes a log table ROM/D-A converter to provide a precision log range ramp, the range so generated controlling the log-scale electronic attenuator utilized in the radio frequency receiver.

Precision control of RF attenuators for STC applications

A range, angle, and Doppler (velocity) measuring radar in which a CW, PRC radar floodlights a volume of interest. A receiving antenna in the form of a linear array generally broadside with respect to the bisector of the volume of interest is commutated (sampled) element-by-element to provide a phase modulated received signal from which angle information may be derived. Autocorrelation of the PRC signal received against the transmitted code provides for range determination and a Doppler filter bank is provided corresponding to each discrete receiving angle, the outputs indicating range and velocity of a target at each discrete angle of reception.

Range and angle determining Doppler radar

A CW pseudo-random-coded (PRC) radar system including a triple-clock arrangement. The three slightly different clock frequencies are sequentially employed to generate the bi-phase coded RF transmissions and the received echo signals are separately bi-phase de-modulated by code bit. Clutter filtering and sampling in both I and Q channels by a commutating element are employed. Video processing, preferably of the FFT type, is provided as is range-ambiguity processing. The system provides resolution of range ambiguities over a long total range permitting the PRC word length and other system parameters to be optimized for elimination of Doppler ambiguities.

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