J. O. Coleman

TITLE:

Transmit TACAN Bearing Information with a Circular Array

AUTHORS:

W. Mark Dorsey, Jeffrey O. Coleman, and William R. Pickles

ABSTRACT:

Using TACAN and array fundamentals, we derive an architecture for transmitting TACAN bearing information from a circular array with time-varying weights. We evaluate performance for a simulated example array of Vivaldi elements.

ERRATUM:

In II-A(c) the first sentence "The desired complex array pattern is an arbitrary constant complex amplitude modulated by..." should be "The desired complex array pattern is a polarization vector, which rotates with $\phi$, times a constant complex amplitude modulated by..."

ONLINE VERSIONS:

authors' preprint (0.5 Mbytes) Math is typeset better than in the official version.
open access at Hindawi via http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/846720 (multiple formats)
locally archived Hindawi PDF (3.0 Mbytes)

STATUS:

Published 17 Dec. 2015 in the Hindawi Int'l Journal of Antennas and Propagation.

DATE OF ENTRY:

January 2016.