New monopulse tracking radar
Abstract
A tracking radar which employs a new frequency-comparison monopulse technique by means of sum and difference frequencies is described. A Cassegrain antenna with a five-horn feed transmits and receives two carrier frequencies, and tracking errors due to target glint and thermal noise are reduced by using a wideband FM technique.
- Publication:
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Electronics Letters
- Pub Date:
- June 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1049/el:19830300
- Bibcode:
- 1983ElL....19..438C
- Keywords:
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- Antenna Design;
- Monopulse Radar;
- Noise Reduction;
- Radar Antennas;
- Tracking Radar;
- Antenna Feeds;
- Carrier Frequencies;
- Cassegrain Antennas;
- Frequency Modulation;
- Horn Antennas;
- Monopulse Antennas;
- Parabolic Reflectors;
- Thermal Noise;
- Communications and Radar