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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 1978
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Wilbert Cleon Anderson, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Vernal Wynn Thompson, Bountiful, UT (US);
Lawrence Walter Urry, Woods Cross, UT (US);
Assignee:
Sperry Rand Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
343-74 ; 343 / ;
Abstract
An antenna tracking system in which attenuation of gain in the azimuth tracking circuit as a function of the angle of elevation of the antenna is compensated. A correction circuit is provided in the servo loop for amplifying the azimuth error signal and rate gyro signal by an amount equal to the secant of the elevation angle.