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Digital compensator for transmitter instability

US4040055A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 15, 1974
Grant dateAug 2, 1977
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Expiry dateJul 15, 1994

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01S7/288
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A digital compensator for radar transmitter instabilities for use in a digital MTI system. The I and Q coherent phase detector outputs are continuously monitored for phase, amplitude and timing instabilities and arithmetic correction signals are generated and applied to the digitized received signal values to compensate for these instabilities which are particularly characteristic of pulsed magnetron transmitters, for example.

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