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- From: np4@prism.gatech.EDU (Nick Pomponio)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: RADAR, RADAR ECM, and RADAR ECCM
- Message-ID: <81994@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 04:50:59 GMT
- References: <Jan.20.12.40.11.1993.25528@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu> <107823@bu.edu> <1993Jan21.182213.5156@wkuvx1.bitnet> <81297@hydra.gatech.EDU> <careyj.727992636@spot.Colorado.EDU>
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- In <careyj.727992636@spot.Colorado.EDU> careyj@spot.Colorado.EDU (CAREY JOSEPH M) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- A straight-through repeater (receive, amplify, modulate, transmit)
- could do the job. In fact, the jammer could be electro-mechanical
- (i.e. passive), with no active RF components whatsoever. No detection, in
- the classical sense, is necessary, unless you want to gate the modulation
- source based on the presence of a pulse. Note that the modulation
- frequencies applicable to the stated problem are in the _audio_ spectrum.
-
- The choice of modulation frequency for a given received signal depends on the
- velocity of the car and the desired (deception) velocity. Both of these
- vary slowly (compared to pulse-to-pulse times), and they are available as
- inputs to the jammer (the jammer doesn't have to measure any radar parameters
- to determine their values). This, of course, assumes that the radar
- frequency is known ahead of time or is measured once at the start of the
- jamming cycle.
-
- Isolation in a broad-band system (i.e. 2 to 18 GHz) is tough, but for a
- narrow-band jammer designed to counter a single known radar, high-
- isolation RF components are much easier to find.
-
- >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.
-
- My interest is with military-type ECM. Jamming a single, simple radar
- is one thing; designing an ECM system to jam a plethora of disparate,
- complex operator-in-the-loop radar systems is a challenge, to say the least.
- That's one reason that military ECM systems aren't too cheap!
-
- >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.
-
- Agreed!
-
- >Joe Carey
- >joe@lobos.colorado.edu
- --
- POMPONIO,NICHOLAS A
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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