Smart repeater for radar testing

Author

Lefevre, Russell ; Durand, Raymond ; Satterfield, Richard ; MacMullen, Alexander ; Walker, Joel ; Pollon, Gerald

Author_Institution

Technol. Service Corp., Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

24-27 Aug 1998

Firstpage

611

Lastpage

614

Abstract

One of the critical items in radar testing is the ability to perform an end-to-end test. This is frequently accomplished by the use of a standard target-a corner reflector or a repeater. In the case of a weapon location radar such as the European Counter (CO) Battery (B) Radar (RA) (COBRA) or the US AN/TPQ-36 and AN/TPQ-37, this is complicated by the desire to emulate the ballistic trajectory of a shell in flight. Technology Service Corporation (TSC) has developed a smart repeater that uses a long vertical antenna to simulate the vertical trajectory along with sophisticated software to represent the Doppler, range and amplitude changes during the flight. The most recent of these smart repeaters was developed for the COBRA system and is described in this paper

Keywords

Doppler effect; automatic test equipment; digital simulation; electronic equipment testing; military radar; portable instruments; radar computing; AN/TPQ-36; AN/TPQ-37; COBRA system; Doppler changes; amplitude changes; ballistic trajectory; counter battery radars; end-to-end test; long vertical antenna; radar testing; range changes; shell in flight; smart repeater; transportable test set; vertical trajectory; weapon location radar; Counting circuits; Doppler radar; Projectiles; Radar antennas; Radar measurements; Radar tracking; Repeaters; System testing; Target tracking; Weapons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON '98. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference., 1998 IEEE

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT

ISSN

1088-7725

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4420-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.1998.713506

Filename

713506