International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 28-31, 1996 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / The tracking system is part of a telemetry ground station being developed for the UK
Ministry of Defence. The design objective is a self-contained transportable system for
field use in a vehicle or workshop environment, so that the system components are
required to be man portable. Comprehensive facilities are required for the reception,
display and analysis of telemetry data from a remote 1430-1450MHz airborne source at
ranges of up to 205km. Since tracking over water is a prime requirement the system
must accommodate severe multipath fading.
A detailed analysis of the link budget indicates that there is a major conflict between
cost, portability, antenna size and the receiver complexity required to achieve a
satisfactory performance margin. A baseline system is analysed using a four foot
antenna. Methods for improving the performance are then considered including
polarisation, frequency and space diversity coupled with alternative antenna types and
configurations.
The optimum solution utilises two six foot diameter shaped beam single axis antennas
of unique design in conjunction with a receiving system which economically combines
the elements of polarisation, frequency and space diversity.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/608364 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Harwood, Peter, Wilson, Christopher, Sullivan, Arthur, Augustin, Eugene |
| Contributors | Bradley Electronics Ltd, Technical Systems Associates, Inc. |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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