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- From: careyj@spot.Colorado.EDU (CAREY JOSEPH M)
- Subject: Re: RADAR, RADAR ECM, and RADAR ECCM
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:10:36 GMT
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- np4@prism.gatech.EDU (Nick Pomponio) writes:
-
- >The ECM device can be a simple repeater applying amplitude modulation to
- >the received signal. The AM frequency would be a function of the actual
- >velocity, the desired (deception) velocity, and radar signal wavelength.
- >Simple AM will produce two false velocity "targets"; the undesired one
- >could be supprssed by using a single sideband AM scheme.
-
- >--
- >POMPONIO,NICHOLAS A
-
- Okay, in theory I'll buy this, but lets see how it would work in
- practice. You'd need to detect (very quickly) the signal, have some
- kind of a system wired up that would determine how much frequency
- (i.e. apparent doppler) shift to apply, and retransmit that signal
- (presumably with something that radiates independently of phi, like
- a dipole). Further, you would need to make sure that you would not
- detect the signal that you would be transmitting, which is only
- a few hundred Hz (if memory serves we're talking about 30 Hz/mph,
- but I could be wrong) off the one you received, or your repeater would
- lock up. And keep in mind that you'll be transmitting significantly
- more power than that which is received.
-
- Yeah, I'll believe that it can be done. It would even provide some
- interesting engineering challenges, but this strikes me as the kind
- of problem people solve for the fun of solving it, not because they
- really need ECM for their CAR (an F-16, yeah, but not my Plymouth).
- Also, to design this properly, you would need some pretty expensive gear.
-
- Just a thought. I'd sure like to see the results somebody else comes
- up with, but for me this reminds me of hacking computers -- an interesting
- problem that I don't want to spend too much time on.
-
-
- Sure is an interesting discussion, though.
-
- Joe Carey
- joe@lobos.colorado.edu
-
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