US2117848A - Direction finding method - Google Patents

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US2117848A
US2117848A US70790A US7079036A US2117848A US 2117848 A US2117848 A US 2117848A US 70790 A US70790 A US 70790A US 7079036 A US7079036 A US 7079036A US 2117848 A US2117848 A US 2117848A
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Kramar Ernst
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
    • G01S1/00—Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith
    • G01S1/02—Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith using radio waves

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  • the lnvention proposes to provide for a permanent combination of the frame aerial with a non-directional antenna effect and to cause a non-directional antenna effect of double the magnitude of the first said non-directional antenna effect to be connected and disconnected alternately and in phase opposition (counter coupling).
  • a non-directional antenna effect of double the magnitude of the first said non-directional antenna effect to be connected and disconnected alternately and in phase opposition (counter coupling).
  • Fig. 1 is a wiring diagram of a high frequency receiver as provided by the invention
  • Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are diagrams relating to the operation of this receiver.
  • Fig. 1 E denotes the input tube of the receiver, the details of which are not shown as they are immaterial to the idea of the invention.
  • the frame or loop aerial is designated R.
  • a non-directional antenna H or a predetermined non-directional antenna eifect of the aerial R Connected to the grid of the tube E is a non-directional antenna H or a predetermined non-directional antenna eifect of the aerial R.
  • the grid circuit of the tube E is coupled also to a nondirectional antenna 2H by an inductive coupling K.
  • the high frequency energy received by the antenna 2H is double the energy received by the antenna H and is coupled at K in phase opposition to the energy received by H, the latter fact being indicated by the minus sign.
  • a switching device S is included by which the energy is added in a rhythm adapted for obtaining bearings, such as a dot (Cl. Z50-11) rhythm, the pauses corresponding to the dashes intervening between the dots.
  • Fig. 2 The diagrams corresponding to the several an tennas and the resultant cardioids are represented in Fig. 2.
  • the amplitude of the nondirectional antenna 2H is likewise denoted by 2-I, that is to say, is exactly double that of the antenna H
  • the bearing beam Q is directed forward, that is to say, is normal to the plane of the frame aerial.
  • the coupling K By varying the coupling K, such variation resulting in an amplitude variation of the second nonedirectional antenna effect, beam Q can be rotated in the manner appearing from Figs. 3 and 4.
  • the diagrams of Fig. 3 are due to an amplitude less than 2H
  • those of Fig. 4 are due to an amplitude greater than 2H. In this way, when a vehicle carrying the direction nding arrangement happens to be olf the proper course the drift may be compensated.
  • the device S is preferably a tripping device or saw tooth generator of a well-known type, whose tripping oscillation is made to accord with the keying rhythm.
  • a commutator arrangement may of course be provided instead, but a saw tooth generator, has the advantage of being simpler than this.

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